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…
XCEPT ProgrammePromoting Reconciliation: Lessons from the Social Psychology of Extremism and Forgiveness
Read moreBy Alexandra Vázquez Botana and Sam Hibbs This Policy Brief highlights policy recommendations to promote reconciliation between antagonistic groups, drawing…
XCEPT ProgrammePsychosocial Antecedents of Forgiveness, Reconciliation and Extremism
Read moreBy Alexandra Vázquez Botana This paper examines some of the factors that determine extremism and the willingness to forgive and…
- Dr Shiraz Maher
The 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…
XCEPT ProgrammeThe Struggle for the City: Urban Recovery and Dispossession in Mosul and Damascus
Read moreBy Dr Craig Larkin “A walk through the old city of Mosul, Iraq, reveals an urban landscape still scarred by…
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.…
XCEPT ProgrammeJihad, Sects & the City: Interviewing Tripoli’s Ex-IS fighters
Read moreBy Dr Craig Larkin We recorded hours of conversations with several former Islamic State (IS) fighters from Lebanon who opened…
- Dr Shiraz Maher
Visions of a New Syria
Read moreEfforts to craft a new identity for Syria will mean little if its government cannot get a grip on spiralling…
Dr Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens(Re) Assessing the Threat from Incel Violence: A Study of Violent Incel-Related Federal Cases in America
Read moreThis article reassesses claims that the Incel movement constitutes a form of terrorism by examining its ideology, patterns of violence,…
- Dr Shiraz Maher
Is the Islamic Republic on Borrowed Time?
Read moreThe troubled history of the Arab Spring sheds light on the fate of Iran’s uprising. It explains why the Islamic…
