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Undercurrents

Undercurrents is a regular podcast series featuring interviews with Chatham House experts - and others - about the critical underlying issues which are shaping modern society. Hosted by staff from across the institute, each episode goes in-depth on a topic, looking beyond the news to explore the issues shaping global politics.

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Jun 29, 2020

While in recent times much attention has been paid in the media to the machinations of trade negotiations, from chlorinated chicken imports to fishing quotas, an often-overlooked concern is how such agreements fail to take account of human rights. In this discussion Dr Jennifer Zerk and Rosie Beacock explain why human...


Jun 25, 2020

In the first of two episodes this week, Agnes takes a deep dive into the politics of statues with historian Dr Charlotte Riley and Yusuf Hassan from the Africa Programme at Chatham House. They discuss the recent removal of the statue of slave-trader and philanthropist Edward Colston in Bristol, UK, and more broadly...


Jun 18, 2020

The first term of Donald Trump's presidency has coincided with what many see as a fundamental shift in US foreign policy. Rather than viewing Trump as the exception to a past 'norm', Bruno Maçães argues that his administration is the latest expression of the characteristics that mark out the US from other western...


Jun 11, 2020

The tragic killing of George Floyd in Minnesota at the end of May has sparked a wave of protests in the US and around the world. It has also sparked an important, long-overdue and often difficult, discussion on racism.

This week Ben speaks to Yusuf Hassan about the issue of race in UK politics, and the obstacles that...


Jun 4, 2020

In this week's episode Ben speaks to Erin Baines and Camile Oliviera about their research on the social status of children born as the result of ‘forced marriage’ during the Ugandan civil war of the 1990s and early 2000s, and attempts by some of the fathers to assume responsibility for their care...