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Right now, let's bring in associate professor and associate school director at the University of Central Florida's School of Politics, Security and International Affairs.

Dr. Aubrey Jewett is with us this morning.

Dr. Jewett, I want to thank you so much for taking a few minutes to come on the show.

And I might add a number of Democrats also voted for it.

It wasn't particularly controversial in the legislature when it passed.

We're joined by associate professor and associate school director at UCF's School of Politics, Security and International Affairs, Dr. Aubrey Jewett.

Now let's talk about Amendment 2.

It's been far too long and it hasn't been for want of trying.

Ben Wellings is Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations at Monash University.

His most recent book is English Nationalism and British Disintegration.

Ben, thank you so much for joining us once again on The Mindfield.

Waleed Ali, my name.

Scott Stevens, my co-host.

We're joined by Ben Wellings today, Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations at Monash University.

I'm tempted to keep going through figures, and I don't know if this is the right way to do it.

Good day.

I am Boris Karpa and we have with us today Professor Joshua Rovner, Professor of International Relations at American University and a Senior Fellow of the Foreign Policy Program at the Brookings Institution.

He has contributed in various ways to the field of security studies and military history.

And his most recent book is Strategy and Grand Strategy.

So I remember talking to my colleagues in the War College and talking to my old graduate advisors and graduate student colleagues from MIT.

And just over many years in giving lectures on these topics and writing on different aspects of it, I finally figured out it was time to try to put these concepts together in one book.

And my hope was that in doing so, I could inspire a conversation among military historians, among political scientists studying international relations, among people from the strategic studies community, and among people from the grand strategy research community.

Just because these ideas that are in the book and the issues that we're exploring are just too big for any single discipline.

You also recently earned an Excellence Award in that endeavor.

You're also a contributing editor of the National Interest and hold a Doctorate in European History from Oxford, alongside other degrees in IR from, of course, Georgetown's wonderful Walsh School of Foreign Service.

You've also written several books.

You can mention those on our podcast.

And the polymath approach, let's say, is important in today's world as well, given the complexity, interlacing complexities of politics and security.

And then, of course, the rapid nature of media and distribution information.

You sort of were pulled into national security and IR in a more, let's say, modern, complex way rather than just a single lane academic career.

So maybe I'd love to hear your thoughts on the evolution of national security strategy, looking at it more holistically, let's say the last 10 years.

This event marks the culmination of a multi-year research project supported by Andrew Carnegie Foundation, and I'm very grateful to the Carnegie Council for Ethics and International Affairs for co-organizing and hosting this event where we will discuss our findings and the implications for the future of international cooperation, especially at this time when so much depends on it.

we are all aware that we have entered into an unusually difficult period for international relations.

Some longstanding partnerships are straining, while others are growing stronger.

Conflict and competition are heightened.

And you might be asking or thinking to yourself, what is a breakthrough in international cooperation? We actually define it broadly, but we also set a high bar.

It can be, for example, a shift in global worldviews, a transformation in dominant norms and practices, a significant policy change, or even the ability to overcome detractors to change, all in a way that fosters positive and new areas of cooperation.

And so the question is, why do these breakthroughs happen when they do, and how can we encourage more of them? What makes the difference between breakthrough and breakdown? So dominant narratives in international relations clearly focus on state power, material capabilities, great power competition.

And in this moment defined by strategic rivalry and polarization, the prevailing assumption is that any effort at cooperation should fail.

This event marks the culmination of a multi-year research project supported by Andrew Carnegie Foundation, and I'm very grateful to the Carnegie Council for Ethics and International Affairs for co-organizing and hosting this event where we will discuss our findings and the implications for the future of international cooperation, especially at this time when so much depends on it.

we are all aware that we have entered into an unusually difficult period for international relations.

Some longstanding partnerships are straining, while others are growing stronger.

Conflict and competition are heightened.

And you might be asking or thinking to yourself, what is a breakthrough in international cooperation? We actually define it broadly, but we also set a high bar.

It can be, for example, a shift in global worldviews, a transformation in dominant norms and practices, a significant policy change, or even the ability to overcome detractors to change, all in a way that fosters positive and new areas of cooperation.

And so the question is, why do these breakthroughs happen when they do, and how can we encourage more of them? What makes the difference between breakthrough and breakdown? So dominant narratives in international relations clearly focus on state power, material capabilities, great power competition.

And in this moment defined by strategic rivalry and polarization, the prevailing assumption is that any effort at cooperation should fail.

News Director Castor spoke to Labour MP Shanan Halbert about Labour's policies for renters and Labour's view on the relationship between landlords and tenants.

and producer Eloise spoke to Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations, Kathy Smits, about diversity and political capital.

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Look, we're not politicians here on, you know, 95 BFM.

Aotearoa and other countries with an imperial history such as Australia and Canada stake much of their modern national identity on being multicultural societies and diverse policies can have unexpected bipartisan appeal.

Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations Kathy Smits from the University of Auckland has published a book exploring this topic this year called The Political Uses of Cultural Diversity, The Diversity Dividend.

Producer Eloise spoke with Kathy Smits about how diversity is used for political capital by actors across the political spectrum.

Dr.

Ran Porat, Middle East and International Affairs expert at Monash University.

Ran, thanks for joining us on the program.

Thank you, Andrew.