XCEPT Programme‘Don’t Look Back In Anger’: Counting the Cost of Lebanese Nostalgia
Read moreBy Maria El Sammak While walking through the streets of Hamra, Beirut, in autumn this year, I came across an…
Dr Inna RudolfIraq’s Islamic Resistance and the Bending of Sect-Coded and Cross-Sectarian Solidarity
Read moreIn light of the ongoing conflict in Gaza, particularly following the Iran-Israel ‘12-Day War’ and subsequent U.S. strikes on Iran,…
Dr Shiraz MaherPervasive Mass Violence has Paralysed our Failing Government
Read moreAfter yet another murderous attack, it is time to overhaul our inadequate anti-terror regime. It has been an exhausting week,…
- Dr Shiraz Maher
Manchester and the Jihadi War Against Jews
Read moreJihad al-Shamie emerged from a British subculture contaminated with violence. There was a depressing inevitability to the terrorist attack outside…
Dr Nils MallockGeography and Politics Stand in the Way of an Independent Palestinian State
Read moreThere has been a recent rush of countries to formally recognise the state of Palestine. Affirming Palestinian sovereignty marks a…
Dr Andrew EhrhardtA Grand Strategy of Peace: Britain and the Creation of the United Nations Organization, 1939-1945
Read moreA Grand Strategy of Peace is the first detailed account of Britain’s role in the creation of the United Nations…
Prof John Bew CMGPursuing Pole Position
Read moreHow Whitehall and Westminster planned for a new world order. No sooner had VE Day arrived in May 1945 than…
Dr Jade McGlynnThe Enemy’s Mirror: Understanding Russian Strategic Discourse on the United Kingdom
Read moreBy Dr Jade McGlynn Russian strategic discourse presents the United Kingdom not merely as a geopolitical rival but as a…
- Prof John Bew CMG
For Trump et al, the Personal is Always Political
Read moreIn an era of rapid technological advancement, it’s disconcerting that gut instinct and snap judgments by many leaders shape our…
Prof John Bew CMGHow the CIA Lost the War on Terror
Read moreIn The Mission, Tim Weiner argues that the agency’s past 25 years have been defined by scandal, psychodrama and human…
