Independent Thinking
Chatham House director Bronwen Maddox hosts conversations with leading policymakers, journalists and Chatham House experts to provide insight into the latest international political issues. Independent Thinking gives listeners the opportunity to engage with the high level conversations hosted by Chatham House.Podcasts
What would a Harris presidency mean for the world?
Published: July 26, 2024, 9:35 a.m.Duration: 40 minutes 50 seconds
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Will MAGA redefine America's foreign policy?
Published: July 19, 2024, 8 a.m.Duration: 27 minutes 47 seconds
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What more can NATO do for Ukraine?
Published: July 12, 2024, 9 a.m.Duration: 31 minutes 50 seconds
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Independent Thinking: UK election reaction special
Published: July 5, 2024, 1 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 59 seconds
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Is the South China Sea the worlds next flashpoint?
Published: June 28, 2024, 9:30 a.m.Duration: 37 minutes 4 seconds
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Is America turning its back on the world it helped to build?
Published: June 21, 2024, 9:30 a.m.Duration: 22 minutes 13 seconds
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Has the world forgotten the women of Afghanistan?
Published: June 14, 2024, 9:30 a.m.Duration: 40 minutes 34 seconds
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Is the far-right a threat to the European Union?
Published: June 7, 2024, 9 a.m.Duration: 32 minutes 29 seconds
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What's next for Israel after events at the ICC and ICJ?
Published: May 31, 2024, 9:03 a.m.Duration: 44 minutes 55 seconds
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How will foreign affairs shape the UK election?
Published: May 24, 2024, 8:57 a.m.Duration: 36 minutes 52 seconds
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What choices will the next UK Foreign Secretary face?
Published: May 17, 2024, 9:33 a.m.Duration: 37 minutes 37 seconds
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Will the US continue to support Israel?
Published: May 10, 2024, 10:14 a.m.Duration: 35 minutes 58 seconds
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Which country is next to go nuclear?
Published: May 3, 2024, 11:46 a.m.Duration: 40 minutes 30 seconds
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Is time running out for Ukraine?
Published: April 25, 2024, 1:24 p.m.Duration: 38 minutes 48 seconds
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Are Israel and Iran on the brink of all out war?
Published: April 19, 2024, 11:33 a.m.Duration: 30 minutes 7 seconds
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Has the world forgotten Sudan?
Published: April 12, 2024, 7:43 a.m.Duration: 34 minutes 51 seconds
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Has Turkey turned against Recep Tayyip Erdogan?
Published: April 4, 2024, 11 a.m.Duration: 33 minutes 33 seconds
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Can Germany lead in a divided Europe?
Published: March 27, 2024, 9:10 a.m.Duration: 34 minutes 21 seconds
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Senegal, Nigeria and the Sahel: can democracy deliver in West Africa?
Published: March 21, 2024, 3:32 p.m.Duration: 38 minutes 39 seconds
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China's National People's Congress: the view from Japan
Published: March 13, 2024, 10:55 a.m.Duration: 30 minutes 48 seconds
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Has Donald Trump changed US foreign policy forever?
Published: March 8, 2024, 12:18 p.m.Duration: 32 minutes 44 seconds
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Irans elections: Whats at stake for the Middle East?
Published: Feb. 29, 2024, 11:57 a.m.Duration: 35 minutes 3 seconds
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Is Alexei Navalny's death a watershed moment for Russia?
Published: Feb. 23, 2024, 9:53 a.m.Duration: 34 minutes 7 seconds
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What does Prabowo Subianto's election mean for Indonesia?
Published: Feb. 16, 2024, 9:47 a.m.Duration: 28 minutes 14 seconds
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Can the UN's first cybercrime treaty protect us?
Published: Feb. 8, 2024, 3:51 p.m.Duration: 26 minutes 55 seconds
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Is Pakistan's democracy on the brink?
Published: Feb. 2, 2024, 9:24 a.m.Duration: 26 minutes 40 seconds
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Why is Orban blocking EU aid for Ukraine?
Published: Jan. 25, 2024, 4:22 p.m.Duration: 25 minutes 19 seconds
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Can Western airstrikes stop the Houthis?
Published: Jan. 18, 2024, 1:16 p.m.Duration: 31 minutes 33 seconds
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What are the stakes in Taiwan's election?
Published: Jan. 12, 2024, 9:31 a.m.Duration: 36 minutes 52 seconds
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What can we expect from 2024?
Published: Dec. 15, 2023, 10:21 a.m.Duration: 28 minutes 19 seconds
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Bonus episode: How will the Hamas-Israel war end?
Published: Dec. 13, 2023, 12:56 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 34 seconds
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What do India's state elections mean for Narendra Modi?
Published: Dec. 8, 2023, 10:14 a.m.Duration: 26 minutes 41 seconds
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What can the world expect from COP28?
Published: Dec. 1, 2023, 9:37 a.m.Duration: 31 minutes 10 seconds
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Does a slowing economy mean a more assertive China?
Published: Nov. 23, 2023, 12:59 p.m.Duration: 28 minutes 59 seconds
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What will US foreign policy look like in 2024?
Published: Nov. 17, 2023, 9:50 a.m.Duration: 31 minutes 13 seconds
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Will Iran escalate the Hamas-Israel war?
Published: Nov. 10, 2023, 10:49 a.m.Duration: 33 minutes 4 seconds
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Can world leaders regulate AI before its too late?
Published: Nov. 3, 2023, 9:01 a.m.Duration: 24 minutes 33 seconds
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Is Argentina about to elect a far-right President?
Published: Oct. 26, 2023, 2:50 p.m.Duration: 28 minutes 15 seconds
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Is Gaza on the brink of disaster?
Published: Oct. 20, 2023, 8:28 a.m.Duration: 32 minutes 35 seconds
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Will the war between Israel and Hamas escalate?
Published: Oct. 13, 2023, 7:37 a.m.Duration: 25 minutes 30 seconds
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Is Rory Stewart right about Britain?
Published: Oct. 5, 2023, 2:35 p.m.Duration: 37 minutes 7 seconds
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Should we talk to the Taliban?
Published: Sept. 29, 2023, 9:54 a.m.Duration: 30 minutes 5 seconds
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Is the United Nations now irrelevant?
Published: Sept. 22, 2023, 8:47 a.m.Duration: 29 minutes 18 seconds
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Was the G20 India's 'coming out' party?
Published: Sept. 15, 2023, 7:46 a.m.Duration: 30 minutes 9 seconds
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How has Iran changed after Mahsa Aminis death?
Published: Sept. 8, 2023, 8:22 a.m.Duration: 31 minutes 27 seconds
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Has Ukraine's counter-offensive failed?
Published: Aug. 31, 2023, 2:25 p.m.Duration: 34 minutes 44 seconds
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How China views Ukraine
Published: July 28, 2023, 8:14 a.m.Duration: 26 minutes 41 seconds
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Artificial intelligence A threat to democracy?
Published: July 21, 2023, 8:10 a.m.Duration: 36 minutes 26 seconds
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NATO membership for Ukraine delayed
Published: July 14, 2023, 9:30 a.m.Duration: 27 minutes 41 seconds
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Can Vladimir Putin survive?
Published: July 7, 2023, 10:17 a.m.Duration: 31 minutes 3 seconds
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London Conference special with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Published: June 30, 2023, 8:27 a.m.Duration: 37 minutes 45 seconds
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Securing NATO's northern flank
Published: June 23, 2023, 9:40 a.m.Duration: 27 minutes 38 seconds
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Chinas challenge to India
Published: June 16, 2023, 8:48 a.m.Duration: 35 minutes 19 seconds
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Wagners war inside Ukraine
Published: June 8, 2023, 12:18 p.m.Duration: 26 minutes 30 seconds
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Turkey election special: Where next for Turkish foreign policy?
Published: June 2, 2023, 4:31 p.m.Duration: 34 minutes 2 seconds
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Bashar al-Assad comes in from the cold
Published: May 26, 2023, 9:43 a.m.Duration: 26 minutes 42 seconds
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Turkey election special: Where next for Turkish democracy?
Published: May 19, 2023, 9:55 a.m.Duration: 34 minutes 48 seconds
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Will Russia put nuclear weapons in Belarus?
Published: May 12, 2023, 10:24 a.m.Duration: 25 minutes 44 seconds
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Japan's new security era
Published: May 4, 2023, 11:01 a.m.Duration: 29 minutes 15 seconds
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Sudan on the brink
Published: April 28, 2023, 7:17 a.m.Duration: 37 minutes 20 seconds
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Trouble for Emmanuel Macron at home and abroad
Published: April 21, 2023, 9:36 a.m.Duration: 29 minutes 5 seconds
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Will Finland join NATO without Sweden?
Published: March 31, 2023, 9:49 a.m.Duration: 23 minutes 54 seconds
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Iraq special: The invasion twenty years on - with Clare Short
Published: March 24, 2023, 8:58 a.m.Duration: 28 minutes 41 seconds
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The UK's foreign policy refresh, protests in Georgia - with Arthur Snell and Natia Seskuria
Published: March 17, 2023, 9:54 a.m.Duration: 32 minutes 12 seconds
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Celebrating the women of Chatham House
Published: March 10, 2023, 9:58 a.m.Duration: 34 minutes 42 seconds
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Nigeria elects a new president, Northern Ireland gets a new deal
Published: March 3, 2023, 9:47 a.m.Duration: 27 minutes 39 seconds
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Ukraine special: Russias invasion one year on
Published: Feb. 24, 2023, 10:13 a.m.Duration: 32 minutes 19 seconds
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A humanitarian catastrophe stikes Syria and Turkey
Published: Feb. 17, 2023, 10:09 a.m.Duration: 26 minutes 41 seconds
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Biden's State of the Union and AUKUS with Euan Graham
Published: Feb. 10, 2023, 9:15 a.m.Duration: 34 minutes 23 seconds
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Myanmar: Two years after the coup d'etat with Ali Fowle and Sebastian Strangio
Published: Feb. 3, 2023, 10:48 a.m.Duration: 26 minutes 55 seconds
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Western tanks head for Ukraine - with Jeremy Cliffe
Published: Jan. 27, 2023, 9:18 a.m.Duration: 28 minutes 55 seconds
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Insurrections and elections in Brazil and America
Published: Jan. 19, 2023, 5:03 p.m.Duration: 36 minutes 33 seconds
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China's role in Africa, conflicts to watch in 2023
Published: Jan. 13, 2023, 9:15 a.m.Duration: 30 minutes 8 seconds
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The UK tilts to the Indo-Pacific with Shashank Joshi
Published: Dec. 16, 2022, 10:59 a.m.Duration: 23 minutes 44 seconds
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Reporting Putins wars: Ukraine and Syria with Oz Katerji
Published: Dec. 8, 2022, 12:33 p.m.Duration: 28 minutes 20 seconds
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Protests in China, missile tests in North Korea - with Ankit Panda
Published: Dec. 2, 2022, 5:17 a.m.Duration: 31 minutes 21 seconds
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War in Tigray, Zaporizhzhia under fire
Published: Nov. 25, 2022, 9:44 a.m.Duration: 32 minutes 54 seconds
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Protests sweep Iran, Iraq's invasion legacy
Published: Nov. 18, 2022, 8:22 a.m.Duration: 40 minutes 44 seconds
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The US midterms surprise, COP27 begins
Published: Nov. 11, 2022, 8:56 a.m.Duration: 32 minutes
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Lula wins in Brazil, US midterms approach
Published: Nov. 4, 2022, 10:35 a.m.Duration: 23 minutes 59 seconds
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Rishi Sunak in Downing Street, John Kerry at Chatham House
Published: Oct. 28, 2022, 8:42 a.m.Duration: 38 minutes 45 seconds
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War in Ukraine, Congress in China with Gideon Rachman
Published: Oct. 21, 2022, 10:10 a.m.Duration: 31 minutes 2 seconds
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Secularism, Nationalism and India's Constitution
Published: March 8, 2020, 8:09 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 38 seconds
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Episode 3: Ten Conflicts to Watch in 2020
Published: Feb. 28, 2020, 4:13 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 11 seconds
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Episode 2: Britain's Soft Power Potential
Published: Feb. 17, 2020, 9:32 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 49 seconds
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Episode 1: Britain and the Future of Europe
Published: Feb. 17, 2020, 9:05 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 13 minutes 53 seconds
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