This report from UK think tank the Henry Jackson Society looks at how the British Government should develop creative plans to deliver air defences to Ukraine. Our latest report finds that the British Government should develop creative plans to deliver air defences to Ukraine as it looks to provide the country with more lethal military...

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 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 Chatham House looks at balancing reason, logic, cognition and intuition at strategic and operational levels. Complex systems modelling is already implemented in critical policy areas such as climate change and health. It could also play an important role in the nuclear weapons sphere – by opening alternative pathways that...

This report from UK think tank HEPI looks at what measures are in place to protect UK research from foreign interference. This report reviews what measures are in place to protect UK research from foreign interference, including the new National Security and Investment Act (2021) that came into force on 4 January 2022. It argues...

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 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 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 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 the Henry Jackson Society looks at how extremists utilise platforms’ algorithms to radicalise vulnerable people. This report looks at how extremists utilise platforms’ algorithms to radicalise vulnerable people. It finds that algorithms in use on social media platforms aid extremists and lead more people to self-radicalisation, it is the...

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...

This report from UK think tank Chatham House looks at the convergence of French and German approaches to Russia. Areas of common interest in French and German approaches to Russia make it possible to envisage cooperation between Paris and Berlin in the security and the economic spheres. Both France and Germany are determined to confront...