All Episodes
Sounds Strategic — 123 episodes
Defending Europe in a New Era: Industry and Innovation
Space Security: Threats, Capabilities and Europe's Path Forward
NATO 3.0: The Ankara Summit Unpacked
IISS Shangri-La Dialogue: Reflections
Rethinking Asia-Pacific Security in an Age of Disruption
IISS Stockholm Civil Defence Forum 2026: Reflections
UAVs: ISR, Deterrence and War
The Military Balance 2026
IISS Manama Dialogue 2025: Reflections
IISS Prague Defence Summit 2025: Reflections
IISS Shangri-La Dialogue 2025: Reflections
IISS Shangri-La Dialogue 2025
From pledges to capabilities: Europe’s defence spending and Germany’s strategic shift
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: three years on
IISS Manama Dialogue 2024: Reflections
IISS Prague Defence Summit 2024: Reflections
One year after 7 October: the Middle East’s regionalised war
Blast from the past: the return of long-range US missiles to Europe
NATO's strategic pivot: defence spending and future challenges
IISS Shangri-La Dialogue 2024: Reflections
IISS Shangri-La Dialogue 2024
Long-range strike in the Indo-Pacific defence landscape
IISS Shangri-La Dialogue 2023: Reflections
IISS Shangri-La Dialogue 2023
Australia's security in China's shadow
Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine: one year on
Strategic Survey 2022
The Armed Conflict Survey 2022
Xi Jinping and China’s 20th Party Congress
Taiwan: a new normal for cross-strait relations?
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: six months on
NATO’s new Strategic Concept
IISS Shangri-La Dialogue 2022: Reflections (part two)
IISS Shangri-La Dialogue 2022: Reflections (part one)
It's Back: IISS Shangri-La Dialogue 2022
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: one month on
Europe in the Indo-Pacific: Common ground?
IISS Manama Dialogue 2021: Reflections
Strategic Survey 2021
The Armed Conflict Survey 2021
IISS–Europe in Berlin
Technology and security in urban landscapes
Belarus one year on
40th Fullerton Lecture: US Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III
The Chinese Communist Party at 100
How does climate change impact global security?
Measuring state cyber power
Latin America’s engagement with external powers
The UK’s naval presence in the Indo-Pacific
Asia's regional security order
What next for Suga's Japan?
NATO and artificial intelligence
Reviving the Iran nuclear deal: prospects and challenges
The changing defence-industrial landscape
Fragility and global (dis)order: lessons from North Africa
Global defence developments: 2020 and beyond
Security on the Korean Peninsula after Trump: a new era?
Democracy prevails: what next for the US at home and abroad?
Dangerous Decade: Taiwan’s security and crisis management
Et tu 2021? Assessing the geopolitical challenges of the coming year
The potential for hybrid warfare in the Asia-Pacific
Great power competition in the Middle East
NATO's China challenge
Kyrgyzstan’s political future: Ambassador Edil Baisalov
Biden’s foreign-policy priorities in Russia, Eurasia and Latin America
Biden’s foreign-policy priorities in China and the Middle East
Trump, Biden and the future of America
Will there be a NEW START for arms control?
NATO and the US pivot to Asia
Policing in the developing world
Remembering the lessons of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
‘We’re all diplomats now’: managing political risk in the modern era
How to understand China, its ambitions and potential
Free to choose? How Southeast Asian nations view the US–China rivalry
Future warfighting: placing doctrine before technology
Divided we stand: the EU’s domestic- and foreign-policy agenda
China’s growing presence in the Gulf
Japan’s delicate dance for influence in the Asia-Pacific
The future of European defence spending in a post-COVID world
Caught in shifting tides: ASEAN, Australia and the geopolitics of the South China Sea
The end of US supremacy at sea? China and Russia’s naval ambitions and how to counter them
The World Bank’s strategy for fragility, conflict and violence
Armed Conflict Survey 2020: identifying major trends in modern armed conflict
COVID-19 in South Asia: India and Pakistan’s responses and China’s regional ambitions
COVID-19 in Brazil: political crisis and state responses
Episode 37 - COVID-19 in fragile states: fighting conflict in the midst of a pandemic
Episode 36 - COVID-19 in Southeast Asia: regional challenges and geopolitical implications
Episode 35 - COVID-19 and the global economy: shutdown but not out?
Episode 34 - COVID-19 in Russia: Can Putin turn a crisis into an opportunity?
Episode 33 - COVID-19 in the Middle East: Iran in crisis and the risks for countries in conflict
Episode 32-The rise of urban conflict, future concepts of war and threats to peace in Afghanistan
Episode 31 - China's naval modernisation and measuring effective military capabilities
Episode 30: Understanding the history that Donald Trump’s Middle East peace plan ignores
Episode 29: President Xi’s terrible year: Taiwan, Hong Kong and the coronavirus
Episode 28: Will China become the new Japan?
Episode 27: The beginnings of a new bipolar world?
Episode 26: Understanding the new political geography of the Middle East
Geopolitical unease in the Middle East and diversity in policymaking - #IISSMD19 Special Episode
Episode 25: Perfect asymmetry: Iran’s networks of influence in the Middle East
Epsiode 24: The geopolitical impacts of China's cybersecurity and espionage
Episode 23: The rise of China, technology and a Sino-centric world order
Episode 22: A new era of transatlantic affairs and the evolution of political culture
Episode 21: Oil shocks in the Gulf and how to measure energy dependency
Episode 20: Countering violence in cities: human-centric security and bringing the state back in
Episode 19: Humanitarian crisis and regime survival in Venezuela
Episode 18: The politics of European defence cooperation
Episode 17: Chinese lending and debt-trap diplomacy
Episode 16: The UK–US ‘special relationship’ and ensuring credibility in international relations
Episode 15: The new primacy of economic power: how data is reshaping geopolitics
Episode 14: A European security perspective
Episode 13: Political change and foreign policy in Southeast Asia
Episode 12: Sounds Strategic at #SLD19
Episode 11: Iran's nuclear and security strategy
Episode 10: Humanitarian norms and civilian protection in armed conflict
Episode 9: The geopolitics of nuclear energy
Episode 8: Military capabilities and great power competition in the 21st century
Episode 7: Understanding the Middle East
Episode 6: How to think about China
Episode 5: From holiday destinations to vital nations? The new importance of South Asian islands
Episode 4: The INF Treaty and the future of arms control
Episode 3: Elections in the DRC and coercive radicalisation in armed conflict
Episode 2: A multidisciplinary approach to armed conflict and the myth of ‘ungoverned spaces’
Episode 1: NATO and the prospects of European strategic autonomy