Since March 2020, Airmic has been issuing Friday Reading, a curated series of readings and knowledge resources sent by email to Airmic members. The objective of Airmic Friday Reading was initially to keep members informed during the Covid-19 pandemic. Today, Airmic Friday Reading has evolved in scope to include content on a wide range of subjects with each email edition following a theme. This page is a searchable archive of all the readings and knowledge resources that have been shared.
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Friday Reading Edition 187 (2nd February 2024)
The focus of the world was on Belfast when global political leaders past and present arrived in Belfast to mark the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement last April.
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Friday Reading Edition 186 (26th January 2024)
The UK and US attacked Houthi sites in Yemen on 11 January, following the group's attacks on Red Sea shipping. What is the background and situation in Yemen?
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Friday Reading Edition 186 (26th January 2024)
Roxanne Escobales, editor of The World Today, is joined by Tom Sharpe, a former commander in the Royal Navy and defence columnist with The Telegraph. Joining them are Dr Sanam Vakil, the director of Chatham House’s Middle East and North Africa Programme, and Farea Al-Muslimi, a research fellow with Chatham House’s Middle East and North Africa Programme.
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Friday Reading Edition 186 (26th January 2024)
Watchers will be concerned not only with how the Houthi’s will respond – a response likely to be defiant, but also, what the US and its allies are willing to do next to counter a persistent Houthi threat in the Red Sea without risking further escalation.
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Friday Reading Edition 186 (26th January 2024)
The US and its allies have very limited options to deter or stop the Houthis without seeking concessions from Israel on the war in Gaza, or engaging Iran in asymmetric targeting as a supporter of the Houthi movement.
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Friday Reading Edition 186 (26th January 2024)
Although attacks by the Houthis did not inflict direct harm to personnel or assets linked to the sporting events in Saudi Arabia – aside from causing some disruption due to flights being cancelled – it served to highlight their cause using sport as a backdrop.
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Friday Reading Edition 185 (19th January 2024)
Public and private sector leaders are gathering at the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting in Davos against a backdrop of geopolitical fractures. Conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine are front of mind alongside climate change, macroeconomics and the advance of AI.
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Explore strategic insights and contextual intelligence on geopolitics from the World Economic Forum Text
Friday Reading Edition 185 (19th January 2024)
The World Economic Forum developed Strategic Intelligence to help you understand the global forces at play and make more informed decisions. Explore and monitor the issues and forces driving transformational change across more than 250 areas, including economies, industries and global issues, and identify the most relevant publications, videos, data, events, initiatives and stakeholders in those areas.
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Friday Reading Edition 183 (15th December 2023)
This report demonstrates why risk and internal audit professionals need to relook at the way they collaborate, as their organisations build resilience amid the maelstrom of geopolitical risks.
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Friday Reading Edition 176 (27th October 2023)
The Israel-Hamas conflict has been accompanied by a series of disruptive cyber attacks from cyber activist groups targeting organisations in Israel and those perceived as pro-Israel in other countries. Cyber operations motivated by the conflict are likely to present a growing threat to organisations in the region, and potentially globally, as the conflict progresses.
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