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.
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.
Read More »Rowan Allport January 6, 2015 Latest Articles, Security and Defence
We will witness a battle between a Congress that desires to restore a proactive approach to US foreign affairs and an administration that seeks to continue to limp down the path to the finish line of the next presidential inauguration. It could be a long two years.
Read More »Rowan Allport November 11, 2014 Latest Articles, Security and Defence
Decades of national economic mismanagement have combined with a lingering mistrust of the military by both the public and political class to leave the Argentine Armed Forces underfunded, underequipped and unready for war. It seems likely the country’s military will have to come to terms with the fact that their fall from grace is a permanent arrangement.
Read More »Rowan Allport October 21, 2014 Iraq and Syria, Middle East and North Africa, Security and Defence
The commencement of air strikes against the assets of ISIS in Syria last month marked the opening of the US-led coalition’s second front against the extremist group. But behind the immediate campaign to counter the terror organisation, the question regarding what to do about the Assad regime – a government responsible for far more deaths than the toll inflicted by ISIS – looms large.
Read More »Rowan Allport October 7, 2014 Asia and Pacific, Latest Articles, Security and Defence, The Americas
Whilst both Vietnam and the US suffered a massive trauma as a result of the conflict between the two countries, the status the war occupies today in these nations is more as a set of personal tragedies, rather than a cultural and institutional monolith that defines the relationship between them. If handled correctly, enhanced collaboration could offer the prospect of massive and almost cost-free foreign policy benefits for both countries.
Read More »Marc Simms October 7, 2014 Latest Articles, Middle East and North Africa, Security and Defence
The Somali terrorist organisation, al-Shabaab, have not been having a very good month. Firstly, they have been suffering a string of defeats in their conflict with the Somali government and African Union forces, capitulating and allowing key towns to be captured with little in the way of resistance.
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