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 25, 2023 Events, Latest Articles, Parliamentary Evidence, Security and Defence, Uncategorized
26 April, 2023 HSC Deputy Director Dr Rowan Allport is giving evidence to the UK House of Lords International Relations and Defence Committee’s inquiry ‘The Arctic’ on Wednesday 26 April 2023. The session can be viewed here: Parliamentlive.tv – International ...
Read More »Oliver Hegglin April 5, 2023 Europe, Latest Articles, Security and Defence
Ukraine is clearly, and justifiably, taking no chances when it comes to a potential repeat of the initial February 2022 invasion from Belarus. Despite what the numbers might say, the perceived aggressive rhetoric coming from Belarus has made everything “more serious”.
Read More »Luke Austin March 14, 2023 Asia and Pacific, Latest Articles, Security and Defence, Uncategorized
The potential trajectory of Japan's possible nuclear path could be shaped by the aspirations and policies of not only potential adversaries such as North Korea, China and Russia, but also those of its own allies.
Read More »Rowan Allport March 5, 2023 Events, Evidence to Parliament, Latest Articles, Security and Defence, Uncategorized
Human Security Centre Deputy Director Dr Rowan Allport is giving evidence to the UK House of Commons Scottish Affairs Committee's inquiry 'Defence in Scotland: the North Atlantic and the High North'
Read More »Irena Baboi March 3, 2023 Europe, Latest Articles, Security and Defence
While it is likely that these threats Serbia's leadership is claiming the European Union and the United States have made are exaggerated, this is precisely the kind of tough approach that Brussels and Washington need to take if real progress towards the normalisation of relations between Kosovo and Serbia is to be achieved.
Read More »Oliver Hegglin February 15, 2023 Europe, Latest Articles, Security and Defence
In this most recent spike of unrest in Kosovo, it is reasonable to assess that KFOR’s active and pre-emptive handling has likely served to oversee and control tensions between the ethnic groups.
Read More »Oliver Hegglin December 20, 2022 Europe, Latest Articles, Security and Defence
By forcing a topic to be discussed through consultations whenever a NATO member state feels threatened, Article 4 opens the door for diplomacy, during which decisions can be made that prevent NATO from being pulled into a conflict.
Read More »Oliver Hegglin November 23, 2022 Africa, Counter-Extremism, Latest Articles, Security and Defence, Uncategorized
Throughout the summer of 2022, the military regime in Mali took a series of steps under the influence of Russia to isolate itself from its international military and political partners. This decline in access to hard power was counteracted by the introduction of the Russian private military company the Wagner Group, with its alleged heavy ties to the Kremlin.
Read More »Oliver Hegglin September 20, 2022 Europe, Latest Articles, Security and Defence
Switzerland’s system of conscription has been enshrined in the Constitutions since the establishment of the federal state in 1848, which reads “each Swiss is subject to conscription”. In other words, military service to the state and the concept of a “citizen-soldier”, is as old as the country itself.
Read More »Luke Austin August 19, 2022 Asia and Pacific, Counter-Extremism, Latest Articles, Security and Defence, Uncategorized
Abe's assassination is an entirely unprecedented event has led the Kishida administration to face an epistemological insecurity which could well shake Japan and its very post-war identity as a democratic state to the very core
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