{"podcast":{"title":"Decoding Geopolitics Podcast with Dominik Presl","slug":"decoding-geopolitics-podcast-with-dominik-presl-6862131","podcast_index_feed_id":6862131,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/ecf42094/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://www.patreon.com/c/DecodingGeopolitics","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/39654221/39654221-1760441369220-3e3dd289f3dd1.jpg","author":"Decoding Geopolitics","episode_count":158,"summary":"Decoding Geopolitics is a podcast that tries to make sense of today's dangerous world by talking with real experts on international relations, strategy and security.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-20T06:24:47.500383+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/decoding-geopolitics-podcast-with-dominik-presl-6862131"},"episode":{"title":"James Paterson: Why a New Islamic State Is Silently Rising in Africa - And Why Europe Will Pay the Price","slug":"james-paterson-why-a-new-islamic-state-is-silently-rising-in-africa-and-why-europe-will-pay-the-price","published_at":"2026-07-01T07:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/decoding-geopolitics-podcast-with-dominik-presl-6862131/james-paterson-why-a-new-islamic-state-is-silently-rising-in-africa-and-why-europe-will-pay-the-price","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/decoding-geopolitics-podcast-with-dominik-presl-6862131","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dominik-presl/episodes/James-Paterson-Why-a-New-Islamic-State-Is-Silently-Rising-in-Africa---And-Why-Europe-Will-Pay-the-Price-e3l5nob","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/APO9672731479.mp3","summary":"➡️ Watch the full interview ad-free, join a community of geopolitics enthusiasts and gain access to exclusive content on PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/DecodingGeopolitics ➡️ Sign up to my free geopolitics newsletter: https://decodinggeopolitics.substack.com/ This is a Conversation With James Paterson, a research associate at the Lowy's Institute, focusing on terrorism and jihadist organisations, about a new threat that is almost entirely ignored by the entire world but that is increasingly tearing through large parts of Africa - a growing jihadi insurgency, that is the fastest-growing terrorist threat in the world and that is threatening to literally overtake entire states in West Africa - and establish a new terror empire, overshadowing even the Islamic state. We get into how the leading organisation and al-Qaeda affiliate, has built a shadow state across Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger and grown strong enough to strike the capital and kill a sitting defence minister, why the region is now sliding toward outright state collapse, and how the West got pushed out only for Russia's mercenaries to move in and then fail - and why Europe is directly exposed to the fallout from all of this - from spreading instability to a new wave of migration.","meta_description":"➡️ Watch the full interview ad-free, join a community of geopolitics enthusiasts and gain access to exclusive content on PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2129,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/decoding-geopolitics-podcast-with-dominik-presl-6862131/episodes/james-paterson-why-a-new-islamic-state-is-silently-rising-in-africa-and-why-europe-will-pay-the-price/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/decoding-geopolitics-podcast-with-dominik-presl-6862131/james-paterson-why-a-new-islamic-state-is-silently-rising-in-africa-and-why-europe-will-pay-the-price.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}