How might a second Trump term reshape the US’s use of sanctions? Host Kinga Redlowska, CFS Director Tom Keatinge and sanctions expert Jeff Lord examine the potential impact of a second Trump term on ...

Now past its 1,000th day, Russia’s war on Ukraine seems set to continue. Yet new dynamics are in play and the international community needs to consider how to stabilise a potential future peace deal.

This policy brief, written for authorities responsible for the risk-assessment process, aims to offer insight on five key challenges that jurisdictions face with a sectoral virtual asset risk ...

This paper seeks to outline the likely scope of a putative presence of the People’s Liberation Army Navy in and around the Euro-Atlantic in the next 15 years and the nature of the foreign policy it ...

The US is the undisputed predominant space power. But for how long? While Western private companies such as Space X are entering and often dominating the space sector, China’s space power is also ...

Europe and the US must capitalise on Iran’s vulnerabilities and time pressures to push for meaningful nuclear diplomacy before the October 2025 ‘snapback’ deadline expires. On 29 November, the deputy ...

Suggestions of a possible ‘turning point’ in Sudan’s 18 month-long civil war are a drastic overstatement, albeit one exposing the limited agency and capability of key parties – both foreign and ...

Following Donald Trump’s election victory, we ask if this could be the beginning of the end of the fighting in Ukraine. President-elect Trump has famously claimed he can end the Ukraine war in a day.

Illicit finance has been increasingly framed as a threat to UK security over the past 10 years, but the focus and sense of urgency in the response have not been maintained. Courtesy of Alexander ...

AI is being used to enhance research and practice in military mental health. AI is a cross-cutting technology that is having a major impact on behavioural analysis in both the defence and mental ...

Ukrainian sappers carry a Russian military drone on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, 18 April 2022. Analysing adversary drones can help the development of appropriate defensive tactics, concepts and ...

Jordan’s delicate role as a stabilising Middle Eastern ‘buffer state’ faces mounting threats from regional instability, domestic discontent, and shifting geopolitical dynamics. On 24 November a gunman ...