New Resources
The Aim of the New Resources Page
This page highlights new resources I've come across that may be useful to you and your students. These are typically articles, podcasts, or videos that can serve as background for prescribed content, help illustrate a concept or case study, or work well as a current issues resource.
Each entry includes a "related prescribed content" column. This isn't meant to be exhaustive; I'll point to the prescribed content I think is most directly relevant. Where a resource is particularly substantive, I'll note that it has been (or will be) added to the relevant section of the site as a student activity or reading, complete with guiding questions or an inquiry task.
In most cases, I'll share new resources through my social media feeds, along with announcements when major site updates are completed. I'll also send periodic emails to those on my mailing list, usually timed to coincide with the completion of a major update.
Name of Resource: The Cuban Manmade Crisis
Type of resource: Podcast
Source: The Foreign Desk podcast
Subscription required? No
Prescribed content links:
- Hard, soft and smart power
- Relational and structural power
- Types of conflict
Date added: May, 2026
Added to Site? No
An excellent overview of the background and current situation in Cuba from "The Foreign Desk" podcast:
Name of Resource:
Type of resource: Article
Source: Financial Times
Subscription required? No (you can acquire an account through FT Schools)
Prescribed content links:
- Hard, soft and smart power
Date added: May, 2026
Added to Site? Yes, will be added to this section on power
Name of Resource:
Type of resource: YouTube Video
Source: Fareed Zakaria: GPS
Subscription required? No
Prescribed content links:
- Hard, soft and smart power
- Structural and relational power
Date added: April, 2026
Added to Site? No
Name of Resource:
Type of resource: Podcast
Source: Making Sense
Subscription required? No (this is a free episode)
Prescribed content links:
- Many links, particularly the Core Topics of Sovereignty and Interdependence
- The GPC of technology
Date added: April, 2026
Added to Site? No
Name of Resource: We must not underestimate the peril for democracy
Type of resource: Article
Source: The Financial Times
Subscription required? No (you can acquire an account through FT Schools)
Prescribed content links:
- Sources of state legitimacy, including government legitimacy
- Challenges to state and government legitimacy
- Legitimation processes and loss of legitimacy of political actors
Date added: April, 2026
Added to Site? No, though the “Applying Your Knowledge” activity links to the report in the Legitimacy section of the site.
Name of Resource: As Democracy Falters Worldwide, Authoritarians are Winning
Type of resource: Article
Source: The Council on Foreign Relations
Subscription required? No
Prescribed content links:
- Sources of state legitimacy, including government legitimacy
- Challenges to state and government legitimacy
- Legitimation processes and loss of legitimacy of political actors
Date added: March, 2026
Added to Site? No, though the “Applying Your Knowledge” activity links to the report in the Legitimacy section of the site.
Name of Resource: The Iran War: How America, Israel and Iran Got Here
Type of resource: Video/Podcast
Source: The New York Times/The Ezra Klein Show
Subscription required? No
Prescribed content links:
- Causes of conflict
Date added: March, 2026
Added to Site? No
Name of Resource: Africa Particularly Vulnerable as Iran Conflict Disrupts Supply Chains
Type of resource: Article
Source: The Guardian
Subscription required? No
Prescribed content links:
- Conflict dynamics
- Marginalized, vulnerable and most affected groups and individuals; non-combatants
Date added: March, 2026
Added to Site? No
Name of resource: Insider Interview: Daron Acemoglu and Michael Sandel
Type of resource: Video/Podcast
Source: Project Syndicate
Subscription required? No
Prescribed content links:
- Claims on individual and collective rights
- Diverse standards and understandings of rights
- Responses to violations of rights and perceived injustices
Date added: March, 2026
Added to Site? Not yet, but perhaps in the future
Name of resource: The Great Lie of War
Type of resource: Video/Podcast
Source: New York Times
Subscription required? No
Prescribed content links: P&C - Global governance and international law; Causes of conflict; Justifications of violence in conflict
Date added: March, 2026
Added to Site? No
Name of resource: How Iran and the US Went from Friends to Bitter Foes
Type of resource: Video
Source: BBC
Subscription required? No
Prescribed content links: P&C - Conflict dynamics; Causes of conflict
Date added: March, 2026
Added to Site? No
Name of resource: Pakistan and Afghanistan Go To War
Type of resource: Video
Source: TLDR
Subscription required? No
Prescribed content links: P&C - Conflict dynamics; Causes of conflict
Date added: March, 2026
Added to Site? No
Name of resource: Is There an Endgame in Ukraine?
Type of resource: Podcast
Source: Foreign Affairs
Subscription required? No
Prescribed content links: P&C - Conflict dynamics; Causes of conflict
Date added: March, 2026
Added to Site? No
Name of resource: How war stopped working
Type of resource: Newspaper
Source: The Financial Times
Subscription required? No (see the free FT for schools program)
Prescribed content links: P&C - Conflict dynamics; Causes of conflict; Types of conflict
Date added: February, 2026
Added to Site? Yes
Name of resource: Sudan: Evidence in El-Fasher reveals genocidal campaign, targeting non-Arab communities, UN Fact-Finding Mission says
Type of resource: Webpage
Source: United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner
Subscription required? No
Prescribed content links: R&J - International and regional rights frameworks
Date added: February, 2026
Added to Site? No
Name of resource: Mark Carney at the World Economic Forum
Type of resource: Video
Source: Face the Nation
Subscription required? No
Prescribed content links: Many of the Core Topics, but interdependence in particular.
Date added: February, 2026
Added to Site? Yes - Interdependence and Global Governance
Name of resource: This Is What the Murder of a Whole City Looks Like
Type of resource: Newspaper Editorial by Nicholas Kristof
Source: New York Times
Subscription required? Yes
Prescribed content links: P&J - Marginalized, vulnerable and most affected groups and individuals; non-combatants
Date added: January 2026
Added to Site? No
