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STATECRAFT is about everything to do with creating, maintaining and adapting States and Governments. Internally and externally. Produced by Colin Talbot, Professor of Government (emeritus) at the University of Manchester, UK. TWITTER: @colinrtalbot EMAIL: colin.talbot@manchester.ac.uk

Welcome to Boardroom Statecraft—the podcast that helps business leaders understand and respond to the strategic realities of geopolitics.

The STATECRAFT OBSERVER is a weekly political opinion podcast. -- A Clear, Strong and Factual Point of View.

An eloquent call to draw on the lessons of the past to address current threats to international order The ancient Greeks hard-wired a tragic sensibility into their culture. By looking disaster squarely in the face, by understanding just how badly things could spiral out of control, they sought...

Secrets of Statecraft​ is a bimonthly podcast hosted by Distinguished Visiting Fellow Andrew Roberts that explores the effect that the study of history has had on the careers and decision making of public figures. The podcast also features leading historians discussing the influence that the study of history had on their biographical subjects. The title is taken from Winston Churchill’s reply on Coronation Day 1953 to a young American who had asked him for life advice, to whom he said, “Study history, study history, for therein lie all the secrets of statecraft.”

A Spectator Best Book of the Year; An Aspects of History Best Book of the Year; An Engelsberg Ideas Best Book of the Year Five hundred years ago, Thomas Wolsey endowed in Oxford a foundation he called Cardinal‘s College. Henry VIII, the monarch who dismissed and ruined him, re-established it...

The dark arts have long been part of global politics, but digital systems expand their scope and scale. Yet success in secret statecraft depends on political context, not just sophisticated technology. Lindsay provides a general theory of intelligence performance—the analogue to military performance in battle—to explain why spies and hackers alike depend on clandestine organizations and vulnerable institutions.