Europe after Brexit
Sophia Besch asks Ian Bond to reflect on the CER’s 2016 predictions about the effect of Brexit on future EU policy.
How do they stand up now, on the eve of the UK’s departure?
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Mapping the geography of anti-EU sentiment
What does anti-EU sentiment look like across the 28 member countries, and how might this be addressed?
Inventing future cities
Professor Batty joins Andrew Carter to discuss how urban invention and reinvention can be brought about in the unpredictable twenty-first century, with a focus on the interplay between data, technology and urban form.
The new enterprise DNA
Looks at how data, technologies, and design are changing the makeup of today’s companies;
why it’s essential to have a bold, agile digital strategy;
and how to help your employees find more meaning in their work.
A Divided Island: Sri Lanka’s Constitutional Crisis
A constitutional crisis created by the sacking of Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe by President Maithripala Sirisena, and a plan to replace him with former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, paralysed the country’s legislative and executive branches as both Wickramasinghe and Rajapaksa claimed the office of prime minister.
Against this background, the panel considers how Sri Lanka’s opaque domestic politics is reflected by the government’s slow progress toward its pledges to the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to address accountability and political reconciliation emerging from the country’s 26-year civil war.
How Saudi Arabia and Iran use Islam in foreign policy
Peter Mandaville and Shadi Hamid, both experts in the Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World at Brookings, discuss their new paper, “Islam as statecraft: How governments use religion in foreign policy.”