Behind The Lines with Arthur Snell

Behind the Lines with Arthur Snell is a geopolitics podcast. Every week we give the listener access to the best informed people to help you understand this turbulent world and get a feel for the things that will matter in the future.

I am on Bluesky here and you can read some of my thoughts on world affairs here https://arthursnell.substack.com/

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The Baltic States in the Twentieth Century and ...
with Dan Kaszeta
70 min
27
Understanding Trump's authoritarianism
Christina Pagel on the Trump Action Tracker
50 min
28
How Technology is Transforming Warfare, with Ma...
Joint Episode with Disorder and RUSI,
49 min
29
The Spy and the Devil
Professor Tim Willasey-Wilsey on Britain's greatest agent against Nazi Germany
49 min
30
Ukraine, its occupied territories and its future
with Jade McGlynn
44 min
31
A Moment of Change? France recognises the State...
With Michael Stephens
51 min
32
Is the Islamic regime in Iran fatally wounded?
with Charlie Gammell
45 min
33
Russia's Use of Chemical Weapons and a Victory ...
With Steven Derix
31 min
34
EPISODE 100: Creeping authoritarianism in the U...
with Jonathan Terra
65 min
35
Israel - Iran - ceasefire? Or more chaos
Joint episode with Disorder Podcast
31 min
36
War in the Middle East and its wider impacts
with Chris Coghlan MP
38 min
37
Sten Rynning on the Past and the Future of NATO
Shared episode with the Disorder Podcast
49 min
38
Mike Martin MP on the Strategic Defence Review
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35 min
39
Iran and the US: is a new nuclear deal in sight?
with Charlie Gammell
38 min
40
Starvation in Gaza, is the world finally respon...
with Michael Stephens
54 min
41
Murder in Helmand
Did British Special Forces Commit War Crimes in Afghanistan?
46 min
42
Yemen, the UK, the US and the transatlantic all...
How the Houthis might have helped Starmer get his trade agreement
64 min
43
Ukraine and America: the great betrayal
with Romeo Koktriatski
58 min
44
The Geopolitics of Climate: how Tuvalu is think...
The tragedy of rising oceans
45 min
45
RUSI/Disorder Partnership: Ransomware in our Ag...
With RUSI's Jamie MacColl
48 min
46
The Crisis in The Atlantic Alliance ep 2
The impact on Central and Eastern Europe, with Jonathan Terra
51 min
47
The Crisis in the Atlantic Alliance
with Jonathan Terra
60 min
48
Blood, toil, tears, and sweat: the plight of mi...
with James Lynch
55 min
49
Myanmar: the Unfolding Civil War
with Ronan Lee
63 min
50
What does the collapsing global order mean for ...
with Samir Puri
43 min