Archives: Reports

How the circular economy can revive the Sustainable Development Goals

This report from UK think tank Chatham House explores how the circular economy could support each of the 17 SDGs. With progress on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) badly off track, international policymakers are scrambling for solutions that can both revitalize the current SDG agenda and drive more effective action on humanity’s big challenges...

Read more

The internet under attack

This report from UK think tank Chatham House features insights from Afghanistan and Ukraine on maintaining a resilient internet in conflict and crisis. Many aspects of modern conflict are increasingly defined by the internet and digital technologies. The concept of resilience is essential to understanding the complex web of incentives, interests and dependencies that have...

Read more

Tackling the Niger–Libya migration route

This report from UK think tank Chatham House looks at how armed conflict in Libya shapes the Agadez mobility economy. Following the Libyan revolution in 2011, the number of migrants passing through Agadez, in Niger, en route to Europe, grew significantly, fuelling a migration boom in the city. In response to the increase in arrivals...

Read more

Tracing the ‘continuum of violence’ between Nigeria and Libya

This report from UK think tank Chatham House looks at how the movement of people from Edo State fuels the Libyan conflict economy. Despite being thousands of miles apart, Libya and Edo State in southern Nigeria are connected by a centuries-old route for trade and the movement of people. Since the outbreak of conflict in...

Read more

China ‘under siege’

This report from UK think tank Chatham House examines how the US’s hardening China policy is seen in Beijing. The China–US relationship has no doubt deteriorated in recent years. Washington’s policy of containing China through the application of restrictions on certain goods and markets, as well as China’s own economic downturn, has increased the tension...

Read more

Workplace AI in China

This report from UK think tank Chatham House examines the changing profile of work and labour. The use of AI in Chinese workplaces and the impact on employees offers important lessons for the roll-out of this technology around the world. China places few restrictions on developers, and this environment has enabled the rapid emergence of...

Read more

The strategic approach to countering cybercrime (SACC) framework

This report from UK think tank Chatham House presents a framework for a strategic approach to countering cybercrime. Cybercrime is a growing threat to global prosperity and national security around the world. Recent attacks against critical national interests in the US, Costa Rica and Ireland, among others, have shown the serious impact that malicious cyber...

Read more

Assessing Russian plans for military regeneration

This report from UK think tank Chatham House assesses the challenges Russia faces in upgrading each of the main armed services and in reforming or developing its command structures. Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, now into its third year, has confounded many assumptions – both in Moscow and in the West – about the effectiveness...

Read more

Cybersecurity of the civil nuclear sector

This report from UK think tank Chatham House considers the evolving cyberthreats that the civil nuclear sector faces both in peacetime and during conflict. A combination of factors – from energy security and decarbonization agendas to the emergence of small modular reactors (SMRs) that potentially make nuclear energy more accessible – are prompting many countries...

Read more

A principles-based approach to cyber capacity-building (CCB)

This report from UK think tank Chatham House illustrates how a principles-based approach may inform the design, implementation and evaluation of a cyber capacity-building project. In 2021, members of the UN Open-ended Working Group (OEWG) agreed 10 principles for cyber capacity-building (CCB). However, to date, the principles have not had the impact that was expected...

Read more