Global Conversations, from Scotland

There is a pressing need to marshal Scotland’s formidable expertise on international affairs to support the formulation of public policy and to lift the level of debate over international questions in the public sphere. The Scottish Council on Global Affairs is the first all-Scotland international relations institute providing a hub for policy-relevant research and a home for informed, non-partisan debate on all areas of foreign and security policy. The Council provides a forum to bring together the public, private and not-for-profit sectors with civil society and academic expertise to encourage dialogue, debate and the dissemination of research on issues of global importance. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Global Conversations, from Scotland is a news podcast hosted by John Edward, with 16 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

John Edward hosts Global Conversations, from Scotland, a news show with 16 episodes published.

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  Episode #6

  Scotland’s Role in Global Innovation for Addiction Care

  Jun 3, 202648 minS2

  A discussion between partners in the SCGA-funded project on Scotland’s role in global innovation for addiction care. Dr Gosia Mitka , University of St Andrews Business School; Professor Alex Baldacchino , Professor of Medicine, Psychiatry and Addiction, University of St Andrews School of Medicine; Moira Mackenzie , Deputy Chief Executive Officer/Director of Innovation, Digital Health & Care Innovation Centre, Scotland (DHI); Sally Dyson; Dr Roger Flint; Dr Hamed Ekhtiari , UT Southwestern Medical Center. This project explored how Scotland can lead global innovation in addiction care by integrating systems thinking, entrepreneurial approaches, data-driven approaches, and public health strategies. It examined the intersection of global addiction trends and Scotland’s policy, research, and innovation landscape, identifying further opportunities for Scotland to contribute to international efforts in reducing drug-related deaths. Scotland has an emerging reputation for research and innovation in addiction care, evidenced by multiple initiatives and programmes. Digital Innovation in Addiction Services (DigitAS) IDEAS in Addiction Medicine Digital Health & Care Innovation Centre Safer Prescription of Opioids Tool Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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  Episode #5

  Women, Peace and Security in the Age of Fragmentation

  Dec 18, 202549 minS2

  Women, Peace and Security in the Age of Fragmentation In this podcast,  Laura Wise , Kasia Houghton , and Fiona Campbell discuss an SCGA Insight report following a workshop - with their colleague Salma Yusuf - supported by Scottish Council on Global Affairs and the Peace and Conflict Resolution Platform ( PeaceRep ), held at Edinburgh Law School on 2 October 2025. They explore what Global Fragmentation and the contemporary Women Peace Security crisis/es means for women’s rights advocates in peace processes. The workshop brought together a group of individuals at multiple career stages from the worlds of diplomacy, governance, research, policy, practice, and activism to collectively make sense of this current moment in peacemaking, and generate new ideas to respond to a common challenge. This collective work included reflections on the past and present of peacemaking and WPS, and thinking about the future trajectory of feminist approaches to peace. Link to the blog by Salma Yusuf on Women’s Leadership in an Era of Multi-mediation and Global Fragmentation . Link to UN resolution (S/RES/1325)  on women and peace and security from 31 October 2000.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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  Episode #4

  World of the Right: Radical Conservatism and World Order

  Sep 29, 20251h 31mS2

  The audio track from a very timely lecture organised by the Stevenson Trust for Citizenship and co-hosted by the Scottish Council on Global Affairs . It took place at the University of Glasgow in April 2025. The speakers were Professors Rita Abrahamsen & Michael C. Williams , both at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa, and both Leverhulme Visiting Professors in the United Kingdom. Professors Abrahamsen and Williams argue that while the radical Right is far from a unified political movement, its calls for sovereignty, civilizational orders, and multipolarity enable complex, strategic convergences with illiberal states such as China and Russia, as well as states and people in the Global South. The potential consequences for the future of the liberal world order remain wide-ranging. See also on YouTube . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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  Episode #3

  "How nations like Scotland and Ireland can provide a hub for discussion on international affairs" - Leo Varadakar

  Feb 7, 202553 minS2

  <p>A live recording of First Minister John Swinney MSP and former Taoiseach Leo Varadkar with Principal Professor Dame Sally Mapstone, at an event held in the Booth Lecture Theatre to mark the transition of SCGA from the University of Glasgow to St Andrews for the next two years.</p><p>“The fact that three institutions – the universities of St Andrews, Glasgow and Edinburgh – came together to found the Council is very good practice and not something I have seen in any other jurisdictions ” (Leo Varadkar)</p><p>https://news.st-andrews.ac.uk/archive/first-minister-and-former-taoiseach-mark-st-andrews-leadership-of-scga/</p><p>John Swinney from 9m50s</p><p...

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  Episode #2

  A Global Perspective on National Security

  Dec 4, 202428 minS2

  <p>In this episode we look at the work undertaken by Prof. Andrew Neal and his colleagues on National Security globally. Breaking new ground a corpus and dataset of national security documents has been produced, with SCGA support, offering unprecedented insights into the landscape of international security. </p><p>This collection encompasses 575 documents from 113 countries, spanning the years 1987 to 2024. It represents the first-ever comprehensive corpus of public national security and defence documents on a global scale, providing a unique window into how countries across the world conceptualise and prioritise their security challenges.</p><p>The complete dataset has a DOI a...

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