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

  • S03 E01 - 16. EU-China Relations: Between Economic Competitor & Systemic Rival

    S03 E01 - 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,...

    22:56
  • Season 2

  • S02 E07 - 15. Is the West prepared for War?

    S02 E07 - 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'...

    37:02
  • S02 E06 - 14. Emerging Threats to US and EU Security

    S02 E06 - 14. Emerging Threats to US and EU Security

    In the sixth episode of the special series on US-Europe relations, AIES Deputy Director Michael Zinkanell talked to Richard Fontaine, CEO of the Center for a New American Security, about the broad spectrum of emerging threats to U...

    32:17
  • S02 E05 - 13. The US View on European Defence

    S02 E05 - 13. The US View on European Defence

    In the fifth episode of the special series on US-EU relations, AIES Senior Research Fellow Sofia-Maria Satanakis talked to Benjamin Haddad, Director of the Europe Center at the Atlantic Council in Washington D.C., about the US per...

    35:15
  • S02 E04 - 12. The Global Order

    S02 E04 - 12. The Global Order

    In the fourth episode of the special series on US-Europe relations, AIES Director Velina Tchakarova talked to Dr. Andrew Michta, Dean of the College of International and Security Studies at the George C. Marshall European Center f...

    34:50