Reports
China’s increasing influence in the Commonwealth of Nations
This report from UK think tank Civitas looks at China and a triad of trade, diplomacy, and military relations. The UK has a unique post-Brexit opportunity to re-engage with its Commonwealth partners, forge new and exciting trading relationships – and where it has already done so, to build and capitalise on these with new security...
Why still pro-Russia?
This report from UK think tank the Henry Jackson Society looks at making sense of Hungary's and Serbia's Russia stance. In this report, Professor Dr Marlene Laruelle and Dr Helena Ivanov investigate the level and underlying causes of pro-Russian sentiment in Serbia and Hungary. Both countries have been noted for their approach to Russia’s invasion...
Identity and influence
This report from UK think tank the Social Market Foundation looks at how the rule of law could strengthen British national identity and maintain UK soft power. This report from Social Market Foundation think-tank looks present steps to restabilising the rule of law in the UK, to strengthen internal unity and ensuring that it remains...
Malign interference in Southeast Asia
This report from UK think tank RUSI looks at Southeast Asian countries’ understanding of and experiences with foreign state interference. This paper provides a succinct macro-survey of Southeast Asian countries’ understanding of and experiences with foreign state interference, given that strategic competition is increasingly taking place in the ‘grey zone’ and between states, with an...
Northern Europe, the Arctic and the Baltic: the ISR gap
This report from UK think tank IISS looks at the funding levels and plans of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance investments of key NATO member states. This IISS research paper assesses the funding levels, strategies, plans and programmes associated with the multi-domain (space, air, land, sea and cyber) intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) investments of key...
Transatlantic cooperation on the Indo-Pacific
This report from UK think tank Chatham House looks at the factors enabling or inhibiting transatlantic cooperation. With the global economic and strategic centre of gravity shifting eastwards, both Europe and the US are unsurprisingly placing greater focus on the Indo-Pacific. Their respective approaches to the region often overlap but diverge on significant points. These...
A new security order in the Black Sea: the role of Georgia
This report from UK think tank RUSI looks at Moscow’s approach to the Black Sea region and Georgia’s role within Russian strategic thinking. Russia's War against Ukraine has fundamentally destabilised the Black Sea region and caused greater insecurity among the littoral states. The militarisation of the Black Sea as well as Russia’s ambitions to strengthen...
The Russian air war and Ukrainian requirements for air defence
This report from UK think tank RUSI looks at how further Western support is needed to counter Moscow's approach to the air war. Further Western support is needed to ensure that Kyiv can counter Moscow's updated approach to the air war in Ukraine.
Opening a Second Western Front Against Putin
This report from UK think tank the Henry Jackson Society looks at Russia's Latin American proxies. The West must devise a comprehensive strategy to challenge Moscow's hybrid warfare aggression in Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua, according to the latest think tank report. The paper, published today, examines the economic and political vulnerabilities of the Kremlin's Latin...
A new era for UK policymaking
This report from UK think tank the Henry Jackson Society looks at an economic denial strategy in the Indo-Pacific. The People’s Republic of China (PRC) poses an alarming threat to the economies within and defence of the free and open Indo-Pacific region, according to a think tank report. The paper, published today, unveils how the...
The role of hostile states in Britain’s academic institutions
This report from UK think tank the Henry Jackson Society looks at research collaborations between top UK universities. Research collaborations between top UK universities and ‘very high-risk’ institutions in the People’s Republic of China, the Islamic Republic of Iran, and the Russian Federation pose a danger to the Western world, according to the Henry Jackson...
Inadvertently arming China? One year on
This report from UK think tank Civitas looks at the Chinese military complex and its exploitation of scientific research at UK universities. This latest update uncovers at least 60 Chinese nationals working at UK universities and research institutions, in the last 18 months, who are either employed directly by UK universities as researchers, academics, engineers,...
An investigation of China’s Confucius Institutes in the UK
This report from UK think tank the Henry Jackson Society looks at how Confucius Institutes are not a form of ‘soft power’. The UK alarmingly hosts the largest number of Confucius Institutes worldwide, according to the Henry Jackson Society’s latest report. The paper, released today, uncovers how Confucius Institutes are a direct extension of the...
Lessons for Taiwan
This report from UK think tank the Henry Jackson Society looks at understanding why sanctions failed to deter conflict in Ukraine. The fact that sanctions failed to prevent Russia invading Ukraine, has uncovered critical problems in how the West can respond economically to the threat China poses to Taiwan, a new report from the Henry...
Navigating a new course in the Eastern Mediterranean
This report from UK think tank the Henry Jackson Society looks at a potential new horizon for energy cooperation in the Eastern Mediterranean. Global Britain is uniquely placed and must use her leverage in the Eastern Mediterranean to cut our dependence on Russian gas, according to The Henry Jackson Society. With the majority of Europe...