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 April 7, 2015 Latest Articles, Security and Defence
All the money, good governance and reforms in the world will come to little if Ukraine is dismembered by Russia and its allies in the east of the country.
Read More »Lauren Stauffer March 8, 2015 Latest Articles, Security and Defence
Could Nigeria's recent presidential election cause a shift in power resulting in a return to power of oppressive military leadership?
Read More »Tom Fenton March 6, 2015 Latest Articles, Middle East and North Africa, Security and Defence
Neither side really wants a full-scale war, but unintended escalation is very much possible.
Read More »Lauren Stauffer March 4, 2015 Latest Articles, Security and Defence
Over the past year, Turkey has taken several stances against what have otherwise been broadly held Western policy positions.
Read More »Rowan Allport February 24, 2015 Latest Articles, Security and Defence
Last month saw the Pentagon announce that it was moving away from its controversial Air-Sea Battle (ASB) programme, declaring instead that it would be absorbed into a new – and somewhat amorphous sounding – model, to be known as the “Joint Concept for Access and Maneuver in the Global Commons” (JAM-GC).
Read More »admin February 14, 2015 HSC in the Media, Security and Defence
There can be little doubt that is falling some way short in its regional security role. In part, this is because the challenge Russia presents is far larger than those faced in the former Yugoslavia, Afghanistan and Libya - Nato's largest previous operations to date.
Read More »Tom Fenton February 10, 2015 Latest Articles, Middle East and North Africa, Security and Defence
In the end a moderate pact of Libyans — and a united and forceful international response — is needed to save the country from the ledge from which it is currently leaning. It will take time, it will cost money and it will require long term planning. But inaction now will only lead to the need for action later.
Read More »Darja Schildknecht February 7, 2015 Latest Articles, Security and Defence
DPRK’s ignorance of international norms does not only pose a risk to international peace and security, but also a threat to the concept of internationalism.
Read More »Lauren Stauffer February 6, 2015 Latest Articles, Security and Defence
The civil war in Darfur will most likely continue to escalate as the violent acts of rebel groups and an uncooperative government remain unpunished.
Read More »Andrea Kazan February 5, 2015 Latest Articles, Security and Defence
There are other competing theories as to who is behind the Parisian massacres, but the theory that the Kouachis were financed and trained by AQAP certainly seems to hold the most water.
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