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About Owen Bennett-Jones
Owen is a freelance journalist and writer. A former BBC correspondent and presenter he has been a resident foreign correspondent in Bucharest, Geneva, Islamabad, Hanoi and Beirut. He is recently wrote a history of the Bhutto dynasty which was published by Yale University Press. His writing for the London Review of Books has concentrated on Pakistan, the Iranian militant group MEK (also known as the People’s Mujahedin of Iran), the Deobandi movement and Northern Ireland. He has also written and broadcast extensively on the Pakistani political party the MQM. His columns for Pakistan’s leading English language newspaper Dawn cover Pakistani and international affairs. Owen graduated from the London School of Economics in 1983 and obtained an M Phil in politics from St Antony’s College Oxford in 1985. In 2018 he was awarded a PhD by publication by the University of Hull.Owen Bennett-Jones is a freelance journalist and writer. A former BBC correspondent and presenter he has been a resident foreign correspondent in Bucharest, Geneva, Islamabad, Hanoi and Beirut. He is recently wrote a history of the Bhutto dynasty which was published by Yale University Press.
NBN Episodes hosted by Owen:
February 23, 2024
The Future of the Chinese Military
For all the talk of China being a peaceful country with no aggressive intentions, it has behaved like most other rising powers – spending lots of mone…
February 17, 2024
The Future of Afghanistan
Ever since the Taliban victory in 2021 there has been very little prospect of significant change in Afghanistan. There is no rival to the Taliban and …
February 7, 2024
The Future of the Future
"An air of finality pervades today’s world." That is the opening sentence of Jonathan White’s book In the Long Run: The Future as a Political Idea (Pr…
January 31, 2024
The Future of School Reform
Educationalists sometimes argue that the best way to improve a failing school is to appoint a strict principal or head, and this is sometimes the case…
January 20, 2024
The Future of Images of Human Evolution
We are all familiar with the “march of progress” image - the representation of evolution that depicts a series of apelike creatures becoming progressi…
January 17, 2024
The Future of Ireland
In A United Ireland: Why Unification in Inevitable and How It Will Come About (Biteback Publishing, 2017), Kevin Meagher argues that a reasoned, pragm…
December 23, 2023
The Future of Migration
Immigration has become one of the biggest issues in all western democracies. And the debate is so charged it's hard to know who to believe. Which is w…
December 16, 2023
The Future of Global Economic Governance
With increasing talk of de-dollarization and the Gulf attempts to get more influence in the IMF it’s a good time to talk about the world’s internation…
December 9, 2023
The Future of Predictions
Predictive algorithms are changing the world – that is the claim of Christopher E. Mason who has co-authored (with Igor Tulchinsky) the book The Age o…
December 4, 2023
The Future of the State
The Reagan-Thatcher neoliberal era started the retreat of the state. Privatisation and deregulation meant power was handed over to corporations and m…
November 26, 2023
The Future of Innovation
Humans have been so dominant on Earth in large part because of their capacity to innovate – but how does that work exactly? Why can they innovate so m…
November 20, 2023
The Future of the Rural-Urban Divide
The town/countryside split has always been a feature of democratic Western politics and has impacted party choice. The advent of rust belts may have …
November 14, 2023
The Future of World Disorder
Do confusions in the West threaten a new world disorder? It’s a question asked by Professor Peter R. Neumann of Kings College, London. He is the autho…
November 9, 2023
The Future of Crucial Materials
Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium. These fundamental materials have created empires, razed civilizations, and fed our ingenuity and greed for…
November 1, 2023
The Future of Cancelling
Cancel culture is something all academics are aware of and some are concerned about. Certainly that’s true of Greg Lukianoff who was the co-author (w…
October 24, 2023
The Future of Paying Attention
Is it really harder to pay attention to something than it used to be? No doubt the world is getting faster, and social media platforms are so good at …
October 18, 2023
The Future of Incarceration
The United States has long been associated with a very harsh criminal justice system with, in some cases, people serving long sentence for minor crime…
October 9, 2023
The Future of Superstates
Empires are supposed to be a thing of the past but very big countries with global reach are becoming more entrenched. By 2050, almost 40 per cent of …
October 2, 2023
The Future of the EAST
Exams, autocracy, stability, and technology have been hallmarks of Chinese society for centuries — from ancient times through to the present. Is that …
September 24, 2023
The Future of Ukraine
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has already changed the world. Why did it happen? Who is winning? How will it end? Christopher Miller is the author of…
September 16, 2023
The Future of Anarchism
50 years ago, anarchism was written off by some as a set of outdated idealistic ideas that had no contemporary relevance. Then came protests at events…
September 11, 2023
The Future of Secularization
The statement ‘we live in a secular age’ is open to the obvious challenge that in some parts of the word, religion is a growing force in society. And …
September 3, 2023
The Future of the NHS
The British National Health Service - free for all - used to be the envy of the world. But today the NHS is malfunctioning. More and more people are r…
August 26, 2023
The Future of Talking
Talking is a defining part of what makes us human – we are almost constantly in dialogue but what purpose does all this conversation serve? Both for …