Dr Jade McGlynnThresholds of Survival: The Resistance in Occupied Ukraine
Read moreThe 2024 CSIS report Crossing Thresholds traced the emergence of diverse forms of resistance in Ukraine’s temporarily occupied territories between…
Dr Rajan BasraMore Than Bargaining Chips: How Jabhat Al-Nusra and Islamic State Kidnapped and Used Hostages in Lebanon
Read moreThis paper presents an empirical examination of the Arsal hostage crisis in Lebanon, when Jabhat Al-Nusra and Islamic State kidnapped…
Prof John Bew CMGThe Age of Invasion
Read moreHow Trump’s new global strategy will assert Washington’s hemispheric ambitions When a US presidential election race enters its final stages,…
Prof John Bew CMGThe World According to Henry Kissinger
Read moreJérémie Gallon’s biography charts how the German émigré’s realpolitik diplomacy continues to shape the international order On 9 November 1944,…
Dr Jade McGlynnRussia’s Pipeline of Persecution: A Systematic Campaign of Crimes Against Humanity in Occupied Ukraine
Read moreBy Dr Jade McGlynn and Scott Martin Key Points: Russia operates a pipeline of state-engineered persecution against Ukrainian civilians in…
Dr Shiraz MaherA New Syria Struggles to be Born
Read moreA year after the fall of the Assad regime, Syria’s new government confronts domestic challenges and geopolitical hazards. Syrians could…
XCEPT ProgrammeThe Role of the Diaspora in the Conflict in Jonglei State: The Case of Greater Akobo
Read moreBy Chuol Gew Nhial Ngeprial In April 2025, the leader of the White Army Youth in Akobo, South Sudan, met…
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 Maher
Pervasive 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,…
