Jonathan Selling | Center for International Maritime Security

By Jonathan Selling

The recent announcement that the United Kingdom will be returning Diego Garcia and the rest of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius brought to an end this long-running dispute. Nitya Labh joins the program to discuss the dispute over the Chagos Islands and the benefit to the UK and US for its return to Mauritius. Nitya Labh is a former James C. Gaither fellow for the South Asia Program and Tata Chair for strategic affairs at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She is an incoming Schwarzman Scholar at Tsinghua University in Beijing.

Download Sea Control 552 – Diego Garcia with Nitya Labh

Links

1. “Why Diego Garcia Matters,” by Nitya Labh, Foreign Policy, May 30, 2024.

Jonathan Selling is co-host and executive producer of the Sea Control podcast. Contact the podcast team at Seacontrol@cimsec.org.

By Jonathan Selling

Author Edward Hampshire joins Jonathan to discuss his new book, The Royal Navy in the Cold War Years, 1966-1990.

Edward Hampshire is an historian at the Naval Historical Branch, Ministry of Defence, Portsmouth. He has been Senior Lecturer in Defence and International Affairs, the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, and was Seconded from Sandhurst to the Defence Studies Department (King’s College London), Joint Services Command and Staff College, Shrivenham, for a period.

Download Sea Control 549 – The Royal Navy During the Cold War with Edward Hampshire

Links

1. The Royal Navy in the Cold War Years, 1966-1990; Retreat and Revival, by Edward Hampshire, Naval Institute Press, 2024.

Jonathan Selling is Co-Host and Executive Producer of the Sea Control podcast. Contact him at Seacontrol@cimsec.org.

This episode was edited and produced by Jim Jarvie.

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