This report from UK think tank Chatham House looks at the ambitions of the Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy. In the Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy, published in March 2021, the UK government set out four strategic objectives for ‘Global Britain’. A year later, Russia’s invasion of...

This report from UK think tank the Henry Jackson Society calls for the West to continue its support for Ukraine to also dissuade China from similar adventurism. Our latest brief finds that a failure to step-up further support for Ukraine could increase the prospect of a Chinese attempt to take Taiwan. In the report, we...

This report from UK think tank the Adam Smith Institute looks at how the UK can help Ukrainians. This report argues that the UK should waive all visa requirements for Ukrainian nationals and make it easier for highly skilled Russian and Belarusians to move to the UK. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is causing immense suffering...

This report from UK think tank the Centre for European Reform looks at how the West can take a more strategic approach to Russian sanctions. In response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the EU, US and UK have instituted an unprecedented set of economic sanctions – treating Russia in a comparable way to pariah states...

This report from UK think tank the Henry Jackson Society looks at further steps the UK could take without risking open conflict with the Russian state. A four-point plan to establish safe zones in Ukraine, secure the prosecution of Russian war criminals, and have the G7 declare Russia a terrorist state, is both possible and...

This report from UK think tank the Henry Jackson Society is an in-depth study of the Iranian regime’s foreign policy impact in the Arabian Gulf region. This project involved undertaking an in-depth and exhaustive study of the Iranian regime’s foreign policy impacts upon British and American national security interests in the Arabian Gulf region. Specifically,...

This report from UK think tank the Adam Smith Institute looks at property rights on the moon. This Adam Smith Institute’s latest paper, by Rebecca Lowe, consultant and former director of the FREER think tank, argues that creating a clear system of property rights in space could turbocharge scientific discovery and give all of humanity...

This report from UK think tank Chatham House looks at how the UK must abandon its delusions to deal effectively with Russia. The political relationship between the UK and Russia is broken. It is unlikely to recover significantly in the foreseeable future: the foundations of the relationship have long been fragile, primarily because the two...

This report from UK think tank Chatham House looks at generating a sophisticated understanding of complex operating environments. The Integrated Review highlighted the need for the UK to adopt innovative approaches to international engagement. While state threats – most prominently from Russia and China – are an important consideration for the UK’s defence planning, the...

This report from UK think tank Resolution Foundation assesses the UK’s new Indo-Pacific trade focus. This briefing note looks at the implications of the Government’s trade policy pivot to target the fast-growing Indo-Pacific region, following its unsuccessful attempt to deliver a trade deal with the US. It focuses on the impact of a possible trade...

This report from UK think tank the Henry Jackson Society looks at Iran’s nuclear programme and the vulnerability of Iran’s nuclear facilities to ‘drone’ strikes. Nuclear security and nuclear proliferation are issues of major concern to the international community. In this context, this research report assesses Iran’s nuclear programme, and more specifically the vulnerability of...

This report from UK think tank the Centre for Policy Studies looks at the case for UK membership of CPTPP. Pacific Vim, published by the Centre for Policy Studies, argues that the most common objections to CPTPP based on workers’ rights, environmental protection, food standards, agriculture, the NHS, sovereignty, and more do not stand up...

This report from UK think tank the Henry Jackson Society looks at why Russia has massed troops on its border and issued an ultimatum to the West. The report investigates why Russia has massed upwards of 175,000 troops on its border with Ukraine since November 2021, and issued an ultimatum to the West. Three sets...

This report from UK think tank Chatham House looks at China's increasingly complex engagement in global governance. China’s trade and development finance objectives and Western concerns about these have remained relatively consistent over the last two decades. However, as China’s economy and influence have expanded, the response of the international community has become more robust...

This report from UK think tank the Henry Jackson Society looks at the creation of an artificial crisis on the Belarusian border with Poland and Lithuania. This report analyses the unprecedented creation of an artificial crisis on the Belarusian border with Poland and Lithuania, both NATO and EU members, through the weaponisation of migrants in...