Team Leader: Dr Rowan Allport – Senior Fellow
Our research on security and defence focuses on analysis of Western foreign policy, international security issues and cyber-security. The group maintains a strong regional expertise on the MENA region.
Team Leader: Dr Rowan Allport – Senior Fellow
Our research on security and defence focuses on analysis of Western foreign policy, international security issues and cyber-security. The group maintains a strong regional expertise on the MENA region.
Rowan Allport December 28, 2015 Cultural Heritage under Threat, Latest Articles, Security and Defence
While a significant number of details are still to be clarified, the path laid out by SDSR 2015 should be able to begin to restore the UK’s hard-power capabilities and standing. Although Britain may not quite be back, it is back from the brink.
Read More »Davis Florick December 15, 2015 Latest Articles, Security and Defence
Myanmar’s national election represented a milestone on its path to democracy, but there are likely to be many difficult days ahead.
Read More »Rowan Allport September 16, 2015 Latest Articles, Security and Defence
Preparation for what is looking increasingly likely to be a period of enhanced tension lasting years or decades is now well under way across the Western alliance. Paradoxically, the diverse nature of NATO may be one of its greatest strengths in meeting the renewed Russian challenge.
Read More »Davis Florick September 14, 2015 Latest Articles, Security and Defence
The Xi Jinping Administration is facing significant hurdles in its bid to maintain consistent growth in the Chinese economy.
Read More »Darja Schildknecht September 8, 2015 Latest Articles, Security and Defence
The UN urgently needs to reform peacekeeping to restore accountability in its missions, and so to fulfil the core idea of protecting civilians.
Read More »Davis Florick August 25, 2015 Latest Articles, Russia and Eurasia, Security and Defence
The emergence of the EEU as a counterweight to the EU, US, and China poses a direct challenge to the efforts of much of the international community since the fall of the Soviet Union.
Read More »Davis Florick August 24, 2015 Asia and Pacific, Latest Articles, Security and Defence
The relativist argument that Hun Sen’s corruption is better than King Sihanouk’s ineptitude, Lon Nol’s civil war, and Pol Pot’s genocide is no longer acceptable for people born long after these other leaders’ times in power.
Read More »Lauren Stauffer August 16, 2015 Iraq and Syria, Latest Articles, Security and Defence
By voting to create a Joint Investigative Mechanism to bring the Syrian perpetrators to justice, the UN is furthering the enforcement of the “red line” initially established by President Obama.
Read More »Rowan Allport July 29, 2015 Latest Articles, Security and Defence
There is little prospect of soldiers of the People’s Liberation Army splashing ashore along the Taiwanese coast in the immediate future. But the perceived need in Beijing to reclaim the island as part of China’s return to great power status means that the risk of conflict is likely to grow in the years ahead.
Read More »Ari Maniatakis July 14, 2015 Latest Articles, Security and Defence
The Kurds have been among the greatest victims of history.
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