Politics on Point

by AIES

Politics on Point - The Security Podcast to Go. For over 20 years (est. 1996), the Austrian Institute for European and Security Policy (AIES) is researching on various issues regarding the European Union and the European Integration Process. In doing so, the focus lies on European Security and Defence Policy with regards to the European Neighbourhood Policy, transatlantic relations as well as the Austrian Foreign-, European  ...   ...  Read more

Podcast episodes

  • Season 3

  • 19. EU-AU Relations: An Outlook for the Intercontinental Partnership

    19. EU-AU Relations: An Outlook for the Intercontinental Partnership

    In this episode, AIES Research Fellow Livia Benko is in conversation with Kwame Owino, Chief Executive Officer of the International Institute of Economic Affairs Kenya (IEA), to discuss the current state of EU-AU relations against the background of dramatic changes in the international system - above all the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

  • 18. EU-ASEAN Relations: Potentials for Enhanced Cooperation

    18. EU-ASEAN Relations: Potentials for Enhanced Cooperation

    In this episode, AIES Director Michael Zinkanell is in conversation with Choi Shing Kwok, Director and Chief Executive Officer of the ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute, to discuss the current state of EU-ASEAN relations against the background of dramatic changes in the international system - above all the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

  • 17. EU-US Relations: A Solid Alliance in a Shifting Global Landscape?

    17. EU-US Relations: A Solid Alliance in a Shifting Global Landscape?

    In this episode, AIES Research Associate Nick Nieschalke is in conversation with Max Bergmann, the director of the Europe, Russia, and Eurasia Program and the Stuart Center in Euro-Atlantic and Northern European Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), to discuss the current state of transatlantic relations against the background of dramatic changes in the international system - above all the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

  • 16. EU-China Relations: Between Economic Competitor & Systemic Rival

    16. EU-China Relations: Between Economic Competitor & Systemic Rival

    In this episode, AIES Associate Fellow Lawrence Kettle is in conversation with Una Aleksandra Bērziṇa-Čerenkova, Head of the Political Science PhD programme and the Director of the China Studies Centre at Riga Stradins University, to discuss current challenges and developments in EU-China relations. This episode is the first in a 4-part special series on the EU as a global actor. Future episodes of this series will focus on the EU's relations with the United States, ASEAN, as well as the African Union. This special series is conducted in partnership with the Multilateral Dialoge Vienna of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation.

  • Season 2

  • 15. Is the West prepared for War?

    15. Is the West prepared for War?

    In the final episode of the special series on US-Europe relations, AIES Director Velina Tchakarova talked to Dakota Wood, Senior Research Fellow for Defense Programs at the Heritage Foundation, about the prospects of and the West's preparedness for a next Great War.