Sweden’s Choice: NATO or the Nuclear Ban?
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The US and South Korea: A Fracturing Alliance?
27 June 2017
2017 Survey of Foreign Policy Elites
16 February 2017
The Start of the Brexit Negotiations
20 June 2017
Sweden’s Choice: NATO or the Nuclear Ban?
22 September 2017
NATO: Towards a New Resilience Alliance
1 June 2017
Trump’s Tomahawks: Are We Seeing the Emergence of a New Doctrine?
Commentary, 7 April 2017Peter Roberts
It is tempting to draw immediate conclusions about the US response to the use of chemical weapons by the Assad regime in Syria. However, the question is whether the launching of 59 Tomahawk cruise...
United States, North America, Syria, Middle East and North Africa
Central Asia: A Nuclear–Terrorism Nexus?
Commentary, 6 April 2017Sophie Henderson
Central Asia's increasing vulnerability to the smuggling of nuclear fissile material poses a potential threat to international security and requires a multilateral response.
Proliferation and Nuclear Policy, Central and South Asia
Going to War With Spain: The Latest Episode in a Whitehall Farce
Commentary, 4 April 2017Jonathan Eyal
Indications from the EU that Spain may get a special say over Gibraltar in the final Brexit deal have raised hackles. There has even been talk of a potential ‘war’ between Spain and the UK. All...
Brexit Briefings
The Westminster Attack: A Considered Response
Commentary, 31 March 2017John Louth
It is a week since Khalid Masood ploughed his car into pedestrians on Westminster Bridge, killing three people, before fatally stabbing PC Keith Palmer just inside the Parliamentary Estate. London...
UK, Domestic Security, Terrorism, Europe
And They’re Off: Britain Starts its Brexit Divorce Negotiations
Commentary, 29 March 2017Jonathan Eyal
The start of the Brexit negotiations is merely the beginning of a gruelling process, in which the British are likely to prove more flexible than currently assumed, and the Europeans less firm than...
Brexit Briefings
London: The Latest Victim of Terrorism in Europe
Commentary, 24 March 2017Raffaello Pantucci
The security services face an enormous challenge in preventing these types of terrorist attacks.
UK Counter-terrorism, UK, Domestic Security, Terrorism, Europe
Are We Dancing? US Ambition for German Defence Spending
Commentary, 22 March 2017John Louth
Berlin has promised that it will meet its 2% NATO spending commitment – but it is going to take some time.
United States, NATO, Americas, Germany, International Institutions, Europe
Cyber Security: Deter or Die?
Commentary, 20 March 2017Ewan Lawson
Despite what you may have heard, the latest information dump from Wikileaks is not the most important development in cyber security.
Cyber, United States, Americas, Technology
The Dutch Step Away from Populism
Commentary, 16 March 2017Lieke Bos
Populist firebrand Geert Wilders’s failure to make a breakthrough in the Dutch elections has only postponed a debate about the country’s identity.
Europe
About Face! Sweden Reactivates Conscription
Commentary, 15 March 2017Niklas Granholm
Earlier this month, the Swedish government reinstated conscription, one of several recent moves to strengthen the operational capability of its armed forces.
NATO, International Institutions
Online Radicalisation: The need for an Offline Response
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Sweden’s Choice: NATO or the Nuclear Ban?