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Research Highlights

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A Selection of Recent Research and Briefings

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Redefining Influence: The UK's Strategic Role in a Changing World Order (2025)
Read here.
 

Policy Brief: Submission to the House of Commons Defence Committee's Inquiry into AUKUS (2025)

Read here.

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Policy Brief: Submission to the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee's Inquiry into the UK Government's China Audit (2025)
Read here.

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Strengthening UK Capabilities towards China:
Policy Recommendations for the UK Government's China Audit (2025)
Read here.

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  • Out of the Frying Pan: The 'Populist Summer' and its Implications for British Foreign Policy (2024) - read here.​

  • A Zeitenwende for UK-German Relations (2024) - read here.​

  • Strengthening the UK’s Approach to China - Initial Thoughts for a New Government (2024) - read here.​

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A Selection of Geopolitical Research Reports and Briefings - 2020-2023

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  • Germany’s Zeitenwende Is at Risk (2023) - read here.

  • First Thoughts on the Integrated Review Refresh (2023) - read heree.

  • The Geopolitics of Semiconductors: Industrial Policy in a Sharpening National Security Environment  (2022) - read here.

  • The Next Era of UK-EU Security Relations (2022) - read here.

  • Where Next on UK-China Engagement? with Prof. Rana Mitter (2021) - read here.

  • ​Global Britain and Levelling Up: Strengthening UK Democracy, Resilience and Security (2021) - read here.​

  • The 2021 G7 Summit: The UK’s Objectives and Assessing Outcomes (2021) - read here. 

  • Harnessing our Global Footprint: Transforming HMG Engagement with the UK Diaspora (2021) - read here

  • Where Next for US Foreign Policy? How the 2020 US Presidential Elections Will Shape Multilateralism, Transatlantic Relations, and the Future of the Special Relationship (2020) - read here. 

  • After the Golden Age: Resetting UK-China Engagement, with Prof. Rana Mitter (2020) - read here.

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A Selection of Foreign Policy Commentary: 2020-2022

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  • The Case for an Ambitious British Role in Ukraine's Reconstruction - read here.

  • Understanding China's Interests in Ukraine (April 2022) - read here.

  • Making Sense of the Russian Threat to Ukraine (January 2022) - read here.

  • Westminster Should Care about the German Elections - read here.

  • What Does Success at COP26 Look Like? - read here.

  • France and the UK – Common Interests and Shared Ambiguity Towards the Indo-Pacific - read here.

    • Cool Heads Must Prevail in Resetting UK-China Relations - read here.

    • Why a UK-China Engagement Strategy is urgently needed - read here.

  • The Roots of the Allied Military Withdrawal from Afghanistan Start at Home - read here.

  • Global Britain and Levelling Up are Natural Bedfellows - read here.

  • The Integrated Review of UK Foreign Policy: 10 Key Insights - read here.

  • Global Britain and Reimagining our Relationship to our Past - read here.​

  • Coming Together and Pulling Apart – the Geopolitics of Covid-19 - read here.​

  • Scorched Earth: Nostalgia in the Shadow of the Coronavirus - read here.​​

  • COVID-19 and Populism in the West - read here.

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Research Report Highlights: 2016-2020

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  • Journalism In The Age of Populism and Polarisation: Insights from the Migration Debate in Italy - read here.​

  • At Home in One's Past: Nostalgia as a Cultural and Political Force in England, France and Germany - read here.​

  • Mediating Populism: The Media and the Rise of Populism in the UK and Germany - read here. ​

  • Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself? The Rise of a Culture and Politics of Fear in Europe - read here.

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