South Africa’s apartheid-era ‘Bantustans’ exemplified state-sponsored pseudo-independence. Today, history risks repeating itself in Russia’s occupied Ukrainian territories, though this irony seems ...

Dating back to 1874, the Trench Gascoigne Essay Prize reflects and reinforces the Institute's status as a uniquely placed platform for free-thinking debate on defence and security. Awards are made on ...

Why did North Korea decide to deploy its troops to Ukraine? Pyongyang appears to be concerned that Trump’s electoral victory could restrict its opportunity to become a critical part of Russia’s ...

A riot control agent found in samples collected from the confrontation lines in Ukraine by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons implicates Russia in yet another breach of the ...

Is there any real civil society left in Russia today? How one answers this question usually feeds into discussions about the accountability of ordinary Russians for the war in Ukraine, the democratic ...

Tom Layhe, a speaker at the 2023 UK PONI Annual Conference, discusses nuclear security and the urgent need for proactive discourse in deterrence strategies for the UK.

Already struggling to get out of its deepest economic downturn in 120 years, Latin America now must brace for the possibility of another Donald Trump presidency. Judging by the Republican candidate's ...

With a fresh national security review underway in the UK, the new government’s stance on nuclear modernisation will have a significant impact on transatlantic relations and NATO's overall deterrence ...

At the June plenary of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), Elisa de Anda Madrazo was appointed as president, succeeding Raja Kumar. Her appointment comes at a critical time for the FATF as a new ...

The UK general election comes at a geopolitically and economically formative period in the energy transition. The decisions of the next government will have ramifications for the UK’s energy system ...

Despite some common interests, Russia and China have different goals in the Arctic. Closer engagement between Russia and China has fuelled assumptions of an emerging axis. The Arctic is often cited as ...