PickVidsBest Geopolitics & foreign policy Videos
The 144 Geopolitics & foreign policy videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 3 introductory, 5 intermediate, 135 for a general viewer, and 1 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a news piece. What they share is that what remains is the argument of that moment, not a permanent textbook. Channels you will keep seeing include CGP Grey, VICE News, VICE.
Chai Jing's review: Under the Dome – Investigating China’s Smog 柴静雾霾调查：穹顶之下 (full translation)
Chai Jing's 104-minute documentary on China's smog, with full English subtitles.
The Secret Chinese War for Your Opinion!
Serpentza, a Westerner living in China, describes Chinese influence efforts abroad and the cultural conflict between Shen Yun and Confucius Institutes.
Black Hat USA 2013 - OPSEC failures of spies
Journalist Matthew Cole's Black Hat 2013 talk on the CIA's operational security failures in the 2003 Milan kidnapping.
The KGB, The Computer and Me - The Cuckoo’s Egg Story
A 57-minute account of Clifford Stoll's tracking of a KGB-linked hacker through Lawrence Berkeley Lab computers in 1986, the story of The Cuckoo's Egg.
The Origins of Russian Authoritarianism
Kraut traces centuries of political development, from Mongol rule and the Orthodox church to Muscovite autocracy, that shaped Russia's authoritarian state.
Pandora's Box, E1: The Engineers' Plot
The first episode of Adam Curtis's 1992 BBC series Pandora's Box, on the engineers' plot, examining communism in the Soviet Union and the rise and limits of technocratic central planning.
Is the EU Democratic? Does Your Vote Matter?
Kurzgesagt explains how the European Union is governed, how its officials are elected or appointed, and whether a citizen's vote actually matters.
Understanding the rise of China | Martin Jacques
Economist Martin Jacques offers three building blocks for understanding China's rise, including seeing China as a civilization-state rather than a nation-state.
The US-Canada Border Is 5,500 Miles of Pure Nonsense
CGP Grey walks through the odd history and quirks of the US-Canada border, including how it was surveyed and its irregularities such as exclaves.
Yanis Varoufakis with Professor Noam Chomsky at NYPL, April 16, 2016 | DiEM25
Yanis Varoufakis and Noam Chomsky talk on stage at the New York Public Library in 2016.
The Five Freedoms of Aviation
A Wendover Productions explainer on the political agreements, from the Chicago Convention onward, that determine which airlines can fly where.
China’s Vanishing Muslims: Undercover In The Most Dystopian Place In The World
VICE News reporter Isobel Yeung goes undercover as a tourist in Xinjiang, documenting heavy surveillance, policing and internment of Uighurs.
Bitcoin Is Protecting Human Rights Around the World
A Reason TV segment, drawing on Alex Gladstein of the Human Rights Foundation, argues that Bitcoin works as an escape hatch for people living under authoritarian governments and inflating currencies.
Yes Minister — Why Britain Joined the European Union
A short Yes Minister clip in which the civil servant explains why Britain joined the European Union, delivered as satire of British foreign policy.
Where's the 'Collusion'?
The Real News Network interview between Aaron Mate and Guardian reporter Luke Harding about Russiagate and Harding's book on alleged Russian collusion.
Iowa Swine Day 2022: Agriculture at the End of the World
Peter Zeihan speaks at Iowa Swine Day 2022 on geopolitics, the end of globalization and agriculture.
The Chinese Student Crisis
PolyMatter examines how universities, especially in the West, depend on foreign and Chinese student tuition and how rankings and incentives distort institutions around that money.
Trump's Biggest Failure
A long video essay by Kraut arguing that Trump's biggest failure was his handling of China.
Nord Stream sabotage and hybrid war on Europe
Anders Puck Nielsen analyzes the Nord Stream pipeline sabotage using Kilcullen's theory of liminal warfare and prospect theory.
How Corruption Destroys Armies - Theft, Graft, and Russian failure in Ukraine
Perun analyzes how corruption and theft in defence procurement hollowed out the Russian military before its invasion of Ukraine.
DEF CON 24 - Chris Rock - How to Overthrow a Government
A DEF CON 24 talk on how a cyber mercenary group could forge identities and create the conditions for overthrowing a government.
The Brexit effect: how leaving the EU hit the UK | FT Film
A Financial Times film examining how Brexit hurt the UK economy, with FT writers and business people.
TikTok in China versus the United States | 60 Minutes
A 60 Minutes segment in which Tristan Harris contrasts TikTok with its Chinese counterpart Douyin.
Ralph Langner: Cracking Stuxnet, a 21st-century cyber weapon
In an 11-minute TED talk, Ralph Langner explains how his team reverse-engineered the Stuxnet worm and worked out that it targeted industrial control systems, with a covert state origin.