Dr Shiraz MaherHow to Make Peace in the Middle East
Read moreThose attempting to secure a diplomatic bargain between the United States and Iran should draw lessons from the historic peace…
Dr Alexander Meleagrou-HitchensHow Jihadism Takes Root in Liberal Democracies
Read moreThe ISIS caliphate may have fallen, but the allure of Islamic holy war is still a potent force—even in the…
Prof John Bew CMGWhat’s Britain’s Place in the Post-Iran World Order?
Read moreMidway through James Joyce’s Ulysses, the character J.J. O’Molloy tips his hat to ‘Our watchful friend, the Skibbereen Eagle’, a…
Dr Jade McGlynnRussia’s War for Demographic Control
Read moreRussia is remaking the demographic structure of cities such as Mariupol, with implications that extend far beyond the current phase…
Prof John Bew CMGBritish Statecraft Needs More Than Internationalist Legal Orthodoxy
Read moreThe Government’s maximalist interpretation of public international law leaves Britain unprepared for the emerging world When the British Foreign Secretary Lord…
Dr Jade McGlynnA State-Engineered Architecture of Persecution: Russia’s Systematic Campaign Against Ukrainian Civilians in Occupied Territories
Read moreSince the Russian Federation’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, thousands of Ukrainian civilians have been subjected to a…
Dr Shiraz MaherAmerica’s Paradoxical War in Iran
Read moreLessons from the War on Terror and the Arab Spring suggest that President Trump’s siege of the Islamic Republic may…
Prof John Bew CMGDon’t Let Britain Decline
Read moreThe Fourth Great Disruption is here In 1940, John Maynard Keynes cut a frustrated figure. It was clear to him…
Dr Shiraz MaherThe Fall of Ayatollah Khamenei
Read moreHe became the gravedigger of the revolution that he helped lead In many respects, the story of Ayatollah Ali Hosseini…
Dr Jade McGlynnRussia’s Empire of Ruins
Read moreFrom blackouts in Kherson to water shortages in Luhansk, Russia’s new imperial domains in Ukraine’s occupied territories are in turmoil.…