| Fit for Purpose - Nato; 2nd Episode of 3... | |
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| Mobson | Jun 10 2014, 09:53 AM Post #1 |
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Nato: Caught this last week on Wednesday evening @ 8pm (repeated Saturday 22.15pm) where journalists John Harris of the Guardian and Anne McElvoy of the Economist host a new series of debates on institutions under pressure...Nato is the second of three episodes and I strongly urge you to listen if you haven't already. Anne and John debate NATO's future in front of an audience at the Royal United Services Institute in Whitehall. They're joined by RUSI's Professor Michael Clarke, Professor Mary Kaldor of the London School of Economics, Paul Ingram of the British American Security Information Council, NATO's Oana Lungescu and the former First Sea Lord, Admiral Lord West. They tell us that Nato was created in 1949 to face down the Soviet Union, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation was forced to reinvent itself at the end of the Cold War. It fired its first shots in the skies above Bosnia, intervened in Kosovo and Libya and found itself creaking under the pressure of the Afghan campaign. They discuss Ukraine crisis, asking whether it will reinvigorate the alliance or exacerbate the divide between those members who see NATO as a global policeman and those who view it as a vital check on Russia's ambitions...they discuss Syria and they generally http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b044h9rd ...at present i-player states this is available for one year. The first entitled The Unions was broadcast on 28th May and discussed the current state of the trade unions and asked what are they for ? How do they work ? Could we make them better ? and was recorded in front of an audience at the London Review Bookshop. It is no longer available on i-player. |
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