{"podcast":{"title":"Global Security Briefing","slug":"global-security-briefing-3268408","podcast_index_feed_id":3268408,"rss_url":"https://globalsecuritybriefing.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"https://www.rusi.org/projects/global-security-briefing-podcast-series","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/e/2/c/0/e2c01b74559da505e55e3c100dce7605/RUSI_013-Global-Security-Briefing-Square_2000x2000px_v1.png","author":"The Royal United Services Institute","episode_count":100,"summary":"Global Security Briefing provides regular insights from leading international experts to help you make sense of the far-reaching changes affecting international security around the globe. Hosted by analysts from RUSI's International Security Studies team, the podcast looks at how the UK can best shape its foreign and security policies in an increasingly dynamic international environment. The Global Security Briefing channel is also host to a back-catalogue of episodes from the concluded RUSI podcasts 'Bridging the Oceans' and 'Mind the Gulf'. Running from 2020 to 2023, 'Bridging the Oceans' aimed to create a platform to discuss the key defence and security questions of the world's most dynamic region: the Indo-Pacific. Hosted by Veerle Nouwens, it explored what the Indo-Pacific is, where its limits lie, and what the fast-evolving defence and security issues are in this dynamic part of the world. Running from January to May 2022, the 'Mind the Gulf' Podcast Series explored how the Iranian nuclear programme – and international diplomatic efforts to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon – interacts with regional security dynamics and the wider Middle East. The views or stateme…","last_synced_at":"2026-06-17T22:20:21.392704+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/global-security-briefing-3268408"},"episode":{"title":"What is Driving Turkey's Foreign and Security Policy Agenda?","slug":"what-is-driving-turkey-s-foreign-and-security-policy-agenda","published_at":"2026-03-25T12:01:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/global-security-briefing-3268408/what-is-driving-turkey-s-foreign-and-security-policy-agenda","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/global-security-briefing-3268408","url":"https://globalsecuritybriefing.libsyn.com/what-is-driving-turkeys-foreign-and-security-policy-agenda","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/globalsecuritybriefing/260324_GSB_Turkey_V1_.mp3?dest-id=2784395","summary":"As the Middle East is facing grave uncertainty against the backdrop of what is being called the 'Third Gulf War', Ankara is managing an uneasy relationship with Iran. Turkey is projecting itself as a more consequential regional actor across a variety of regional security spaces and is often described as a 'middle power'. In this episode of Global Security Briefing, Dr Neil Melvin is joined by Dr Burcu Ozcelik, RUSI Senior Research Fellow, to analyse Turkey's relationship with Iran and the main limits of Turkey's regional approach to diplomacy. This episode explores: · How Turkey approaches peacebuilding in the Middle East. · What Turkey's regional role is across different theatres in the Caucasus, Somalia and Iran. · The limits of eastern Mediterranean security architecture that excludes Turkey. · What British and European policymakers should learn from Turkey's approach to diplomacy. This podcast episode is part of a policy series for the ' Turkey's Peacebuilding in a Disordered Middle East ' project of the Centre for Applied Turkey Studies (CATS) network. The Centre for Applied Turkey Studies (CATS) at the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP) in Berlin is funded by Stiftung Mercator and the Federal Foreign Office. CATS is the curator of the CATS Network, an international network of think-tanks and research institutions working on Turkey.","meta_description":"As the Middle East is facing grave uncertainty against the backdrop of what is being called the 'Third Gulf War', Ankara is managing an uneasy relationshi…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2935,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/global-security-briefing-3268408/episodes/what-is-driving-turkey-s-foreign-and-security-policy-agenda/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/global-security-briefing-3268408/what-is-driving-turkey-s-foreign-and-security-policy-agenda.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}