Showing results for "War Games" in Political Science

Was wäre, wenn Russland die Nato angreift? Wie würde Deutschland reagieren? Und wo liegen unsere Schwächen? Wir wollten Antworten. In einem Wargame simulieren wir einen Angriff auf die Nato-Ostflanke. Politiker, ehemalige Militärs und Experten übernehmen für einen Tag die Rollen der Bundesregierung. Ein zweites Team spielt den Kreml. Die Russen sind vorbereitet. Aber sind wir es auch? Das erfahrt ihr im WELT-Podcast „Ernstfall – Was, wenn Russland uns angreift? Ein Wargame“. Redaktion: Antonia Beckermann, Carolina Drüten Produktion: Marvin Schwarz Wenn Euch der Podcast gefällt, ...

In 2007, two CIA spooks meet with an American colonel in military intelligence. The war is going badly, and President Bush, who steadfastly refuses to back down, remains unchallenged at home as Democrats and Republicans focus on the 2008 elections. Meanwhile, Iran's pursuit of nuclear energy will yield enriched uranium by 2012 - uranium that could be used to manufacture suitcase nukes. The US military is too drained to invade Iran, and a preemptive strike is out of the question.

Sinn Féin is the most popular political party in both Northern Ireland and the Republic. A movement once synonymous with a paramilitary campaign is on the brink of taking real power through purely democratic means. But if Sinn Féin has mastered the art of electoral politics, it remains strangely opaque. Who really runs the party? How is it funded? And what can we expect of it as a party of government? Aoife Moore, Irish Journalist of the Year in 2021, explores these and other burning questions in The Long Game.