In December 2024, the Chinese navy deployed nearly 90 vessels in the South China Sea, staging a show of force that sent waves of anxiety through Taiwan, the Philippines, Australia, and the United States. This was not a routine display. According to Dr. Bruce Jones, senior fellow in foreign policy at the Brookings Institution, these…
In this week’s episode, Dominic Bowen speaks with Dr. Bruce Jones about the shifting balance of power in the South China Sea, the international risks, and the future of maritime strategy. Dr. Jones joins the International Risk Podcast to discuss China’s escalating naval activity, gray zone tactics, and the growing risk of conflict in the…
Despite decades of innovation in oncology, over 40 percent of cancers remain preventable. Yet only 5 percent of global cancer spending is allocated to prevention. In any other domain of risk management, such a mismatch would be considered negligence. This week on The International Risk Podcast, Dominic Bowen is joined by Dr. Joachim Schüz to…
Dr Joachim Schüz is Head of the Environment and Lifestyle Epidemiology Branch at the International Agency for Research on Cancer, the cancer research agency of the World Health Organization, located in Lyon, France (IARC/WHO). The Branch leads the IARC/WHO research on causes and primary prevention of cancer on occupational hazards, environmental contaminants, some lifestyle factors,…
This week on The International Risk Podcast, we’re joined by Dr. Joachim Schüz for a critical conversation on why cancer prevention must be treated as a global systems risk, not simply a medical challenge. Dominic and Dr. Joachim Schüz explore how exposure to toxins, industrial expansion, regulatory failure, and political inertia are reshaping the global cancer…
In today’s complex international risk landscape, the idea that global health exists outside the sphere of politics no longer holds. What was once perceived as a humanitarian and scientific endeavour has become a site of contestation shaped by geopolitical rivalries, strategic dependencies, and unequal access to resources. From vaccine diplomacy to digital surveillance, and from…
This week on the podcast, we’re joined by Dr. Abha Saxena for a timely and incisive look at the geopolitics of global health. Dominic and Abha explore how vaccines, health infrastructure, and disease surveillance data are no longer just instruments of public good, but strategic tools of influence. They discuss the myth of apolitical global…
Dr. Abha Saxena is an independent bioethics advisor for the past seven years, with a special interest in training and research in global bioethics. Her areas of interest are in the ethics of infectious disease outbreaks, health systems research, healthy ageing, adolescent health care, human challenge studies, data collection, mining and sharing and new technologies…
Victoria Valdivia Cerda is a political scientist from Chile, she holds a Magister degree in International Relations and currently, she is a student at the doctoral program on International Relations at Universidad de Santiago.Victoria has worked as a space policy advisor contributing to the formulation of Chile’s defense whitepaper (2017)and to the National Defense policy…
In recent years, the rapid ascent of Starlink has redefined the balance of power in low Earth orbit (LEO) and brought with it some international risk. Backed by SpaceX and supported by the U.S. Government, Starlink now operates the majority of active satellites in space, with more than 6,500 already deployed and thousands more planned….
