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.
Rob Marchant September 4, 2013 Europe, Middle East and North Africa, Security and Defence
Perhaps we should stake out the case for interventionism in very simple terms: an internationalist party does not stand by and permit the slaughter of children in gas attacks.
Read More »Ghaffar Hussain August 29, 2013 Asia and Pacific, Security and Defence
Many filed Pakistan under 'basket case' years ago and stopped trying to rationalise developments in that country. Sadly, for others, that isn't an option. What is taking place is tragic, absurd, and frightening.
Read More »Simon Schofield August 7, 2013 Middle East and North Africa, Security and Defence
Whenever Afghanistan comes up in conversation, there are nearly always at least one of two myths put forward: firstly, that the only thing being achieved in this war is an increasing death toll of our troops; secondly, that the Afghans do not want us there and they were better off before we invaded.
Read More »Julie Lenarz June 10, 2013 Europe, Security and Defence
The brutal images coming from Woolwich could not have been more surreal. A man with bloodied hands holds a knife and explains he has just hacked a British soldier to death on the streets of London in broad daylight.
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