Author Archives: Simon Schofield
Simon Schofield is a Senior Fellow at the HSC and the Assistant to the Directors' Office. His main research interests lie in the fields of national security, intelligence and counterterrorism.
Simon Schofield
January 13, 2021
Asia and Pacific, Counter-Extremism, Evidence to Parliament, Latest Articles, Parliamentary Evidence
The House of Lords International Relations and Defence Committee has published its report on its inquiry into the UK’s policy in Afghanistan. The Human Security Centre submission provided extensive analysis and featured in 7 recommendations.
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Simon Schofield
November 2, 2020
Europe, HSC in the Media, Latest Articles, Middle East and North Africa, Opinion, Uncategorized
Human Security Centre (HSC) Deputy Director Simon Schofield has had a comment piece on Turkey's regional policy published in the Jerusalem Post.
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Simon Schofield
August 31, 2020
Europe, HSC in the Media, Latest Articles, Security and Defence, Uncategorized
Human Security Centre (HSC) Senior Fellow Simon Schofield has had a comment piece examining Turkey's foreign policy ambitions published in Reaction. In the article, he outlines how Ankara's conflict with Athens over maritime Exclusive Economic Zone boundaries and sponsorship of jihadists represent the latest manifestation of a Turkish foreign policy approach that risks undermining NATO and the West.
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Simon Schofield
July 5, 2020
Europe, HSC in the Media, Latest Articles, Middle East and North Africa, Security and Defence, Uncategorized
Human Security Centre (HSC) Senior Fellow Simon Schofield has had a comment piece examining the latest developments in Turkish foreign policy published in CapX. In the article, he outlines how Ankara's interventions in Iraq, Syria and Libya, fostering of jihadists and colluding with powers such as Iran have left relations between Turkey and the West at a critical juncture.
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Simon Schofield
January 10, 2018
Evidence to Parliament, Latest Articles, Security and Defence
House of Commons Defence Committee publishes evidence submitted by the HSC on the Royal Marines and the UK's amphibious capability
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Simon Schofield
June 16, 2015
Latest Articles, Security and Defence
There is a very particular, if narrow-minded, logic to his sitting on his hands whilst the world degenerates into chaos.
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Simon Schofield
July 3, 2014
Middle East and North Africa, Security and Defence
We humans do have a strange way of dealing with illness at times. So many of us seem to take the ‘if it ain’t hanging off it’s probably fine’ approach to that twinging chest pain or that cough that has not gone away for a month.
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Simon Schofield
June 8, 2014
Opinion
Whether it is through well-intentioned, idealistic, though incompetent bumbling, or otherwise a calculated and strategically orchestrated effort, Barack Obama’s foreign policy has brought the Western world to the brink of decline and irrelevance. Whatever grand statements he gave at his West Point speech, they do not reflect the realities on the ground of his policies.
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Simon Schofield
April 3, 2014
Russia and Eurasia, Security and Defence
HIC Interview with Linda Eichler, Vice President of the YEPP
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Here, we present to you our interview with Linda Eicheler currently running as a candidate for the European Parliament. She is the youngest candidate on the list of Pro Patria and Res Publica Union (IRL), the leading conservative party in Estonia.
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Simon Schofield
March 20, 2014
Russia and Eurasia, Security and Defence
As reports emerge of a growing sense of unease in Moldova and the Baltic States, the HIC thinks it is critical that we ask what recent events in Crimea signal for the eastern frontiers of Europe as a whole. Here, we present to you our interview with Colm Lauder, currently the Secretary General of Europe's largest political youth organisation, the Youth of the European People's Party (YEPP).
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