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The Foreign Desk - Explainer 278: Who are the Taliban?
11 August 2021
Over the past few days the Taliban have laid claim to several key cities across the outer provinces of Afghanistan. As fighting continues, Andrew Mueller outlines the history of these insurgents.
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The Briefing - The best of 'The Foreign Desk': National Anthems
26 December 2018
Some are rousing, others are melancholic and some are just plain dreary. They’re belted out at sporting events, chanted in the streets to bring nations together and used as a political tool by those in power. But what makes…
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The Foreign Desk - The Foreign Desk presents: Conflicts of Interest
9 August 2014
Monocle foreign editor Steve Bloomfield introduces a special documentary edition of The Foreign Desk assessing how armed forces around the world are increasingly using soft-power techniques to achieve their goals.
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The Globalist - The best of The Foreign Desk: Twitter Diplomacy
1 January 2020
Diplomacy used to be a dignified art. But social media has changed that, as it has everything else, into a faster, more direct and often informal discourse. On The Foreign Desk last September, Andrew Mueller discussed…
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The Foreign Desk - The Foreign Desk: The Ebola crisis
13 September 2014
Monocle’s foreign editor Steve Bloomfield hosts an extended discussion on the continuing spread of the deadly Ebola virus in west Africa. Featuring Cokie van de Velde of Médecins Sans Frontières, Buzzfeed’s Jina Moore and…
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The Foreign Desk - The Foreign Desk: Independent thinking
6 September 2014
Monocle’s Steve Bloomfield chairs a discussion on what Scotland’s foreign policy might look like if the nation becomes independent. Featuring Hugo Rifkind from The Times, Jane Kinninmont of Chatham House, and actress Gab…
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The Foreign Desk - The Foreign Desk: The fight against Islamic State
23 August 2014
Monocle foreign-editor Steve Bloomfield chairs a discussion on the fight against Islamic State militant forces in Iraq and Syria. Featuring Shashank Joshi of the Royal United Services Institute and Iraqi commentator Zaid…
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The Globalist - The best of The Foreign Desk: Church and state
30 December 2019
In this special episode of The Globalist brought to you by The Foreign Desk we look back to January 2019, just after the Ukrainian Orthodox Church split from its Russian counterpart, in a move seen as more political than…