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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Murder in Helmand
Did British Special Forces Commit War Crimes in Afghanistan?
46 min
52
Yemen, the UK, the US and the transatlantic all...
How the Houthis might have helped Starmer get his trade agreement
64 min
53
Ukraine and America: the great betrayal
with Romeo Koktriatski
58 min
54
The Geopolitics of Climate: how Tuvalu is think...
The tragedy of rising oceans
45 min
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RUSI/Disorder Partnership: Ransomware in our Ag...
With RUSI's Jamie MacColl
48 min
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The Crisis in The Atlantic Alliance ep 2
The impact on Central and Eastern Europe, with Jonathan Terra
51 min
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The Crisis in the Atlantic Alliance
with Jonathan Terra
60 min
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Blood, toil, tears, and sweat: the plight of mi...
with James Lynch
55 min
59
Myanmar: the Unfolding Civil War
with Ronan Lee
63 min
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What does the collapsing global order mean for ...
with Samir Puri
43 min
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How the extremism of our age is being fed by di...
with Amil Khan
49 min
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The latest from Kyiv: what does John Sweeney ma...
The man in the lucky orange hat
36 min
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THIS ONE'S A REAL EMERGENCY EPISODE: THE END OF...
With Mike Martin MP
45 min
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UKRAINE, John Sweeney and a betrayal foretold
Revisiting an episode from November 2023
60 min
65
Nomad Century - is climate change going to tran...
With Gaia Vince
46 min
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Could we change the weather?
Can geo-engineering help manage climate change?
47 min
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The Gulf countries and a post-oil future?
<p>How would the Gulf countries transition to a post oil economy? Could they do so and what happens if they don't? I spoke to Dr David Roberts, author of <a href="https://cup.columbia.edu/book/security-politics-in-the-gulf-monarchies/9780231205252#" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Security Politics in the Gulf Monarchies</a> about this complex future.</p><p>Check out our Bookshop.org affiliate site <a href="https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/behindthelines" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">behindthelines</a> and please sign up for my substack at <a href="https://arthursnell.substack.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">arthursnell.substack.com</a> and/or follow me on Bluesky</p><p><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/snellarthur.bsky.social" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@snellarthur.bsky.social</a>. You can sometimes find me on other podcasts - most often <a href="https://disordershow.com/home" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Disorder</a> which I am involved with in partnership with RUSI, the <a href="https://www.rusi.org" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Royal United Services Institute</a>, the world's oldest think tank.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
45 min
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Disinformation in the Trump 2.0 era with Nina J...
Co-host with the Disorder Podcast
58 min
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Justice in Syria: on the trail of Assad's henchmen
with Bill Wiley of CIJA
57 min
70
France in the Age of Populism
with Thom Reilly
51 min
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BONUS EPISODE - CRISIS IN GEORGIA
Constitutional crisis in Tbilisi as Georgia has two presidents
71 min
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Charles Gammell on Iran post-Assad
What does the fall of Assad mean for the Mullahs?
50 min
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Christmassy Episode: Miguel Delaney on the geop...
<p>Miguel Delaney, Chief Football Writer at the Independent is the author of states of play, a book about the geopolitics of football. You can find him on Bluesky and Twitter.</p><br><p><a href="https://linktr.ee/migueldelaney" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">migueldelaney</a></p><p>Check out our Bookshop.org affiliate site <a href="https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/behindthelines" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">behindthelines</a> and please sign up for my substack at <a href="https://arthursnell.substack.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">arthursnell.substack.com</a> and/or follow me on Bluesky</p><p><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/snellarthur.bsky.social" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@snellarthur.bsky.social</a>. You can sometimes find me on other podcasts - most often <a href="https://disordershow.com/home" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Disorder</a> which I am involved with in partnership with RUSI, the <a href="https://www.rusi.org" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Royal United Services Institute</a>, the world's oldest think tank.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
55 min
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Inside HTS: what does Al-Jolani want and how wi...
with Orwa Ajjoub
68 min
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The history of Syria, from the Pharaohs to the ...
With James Barr
53 min