by Alastair Sloan
Suspend for a moment any care for the Iraqi civilians and British soldiers who died in the 2003 invasion and subsequent years of occupation in Iraq. I’m not saying you don’t care, but let’s for a moment pretend you don’t. As if by magic, you now possess the fundamental emotional…
by Muddassar Ahmed
A win by the anti-EU Brexit campaign, already riddled with anti-Muslim bigotry, would not only boost but legitimate xenophobic sentiments against minorities in the U.K. and across Europe.
On June 23rd, my country will…
by Julia Berghofer
Currently the debate on nuclear weapons in the European Union is not making any progress, this could be due to the failure of the Non-Proliferation Treaty in 2015. Nevertheless, a nuclear-weapon-free zone in…
by Alex Benjamin
0.41%. I want you to keep that number in mind. It’s important in the context of the current UK Labour Party woes over Anti-semitism. That’s the percentage that British Jews…
by Erik van der Marel
With sluggish growth performance in the EU over the last years, it is increasingly important to make reforms that lift economic growth. While there are various sources of growth, one outstanding…
by David Hearst
Nearly four months into its intervention, Russia is an active combatant in the Syrian civil war. This is not just an assertion. It is borne out by casualty figures and the…
by Judy Dempsey
Judy Asks: What Will Be the Big Foreign Policy Story of 2016?
Every week, a selection of leading experts answer a new question from Judy Dempsey on the foreign and security policy…
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by Pepe Escobar
So what is the Obama administration really up to in Iran? What sort of strategic calculations have led to…
by Anna Stavrianakis
Anna Stavrianakis critiques nation-centric theories that dominate International Relations as a discipline, as well as offering newer ways of studying the arms trade and emphasising the need for a more global approach.
September 2015, ExCel Centre,…
by Marc Pierini
Only a few weeks ago, the al-Assad regime seemed in danger of losing the swath of land from Latakia to Damascus to the assaults of the Islamic State of Iraq and the…