With the UK and US military facing potential numerical disadvantages in future conflicts, this Research Paper explores how lethality – defined as the rate at which a force inflicts damage relative to ...

Energy supplies remain a core driver of geopolitical volatility, notwithstanding the latest conditional ceasefire agreed between the US and Iran.

Hasty or premature assessments aside, it is too soon to read Iran’s conduct in this war as definitive evidence of regime survival. The Islamic Republic has not collapsed in the way US President Donald ...

The EU’s new super-supervisor is coming to life, but will it enable or restrict the future of the EU’s financial services industry? While the new European financial crime watchdog, the Anti-Money ...

The laundering of illegally sourced endemic species undermines conservation efforts. National governments must switch the incentives to ensure sustainable trade benefits are captured locally. Latin ...

The next three weeks could change western security and the geo-political world forever if the Chagos ‘deal’ passes through UK Parliament. The battle for the Chagos Islands has been going on for ...

Rear Admiral Archer M Macy Jr describes today’s military, organisational, human and cultural risks and opportunities in integrating forces for air and missile defence. Read the transcript Many modern ...

Recent Western approaches to cybersecurity embrace the notion that the best defence is a good offence. The rapid adoption and expansion of offensive cyber powers reflect growing geopolitical ...

States have established new Permanent Mechanism at the UN to discuss the rules of the road in cyberspace. Rather than stall, they should not shy away from tough topics. The conclusion of the UN’s Open ...

Motivation, coordination and making the right choices has brought a remarkable turnaround in the financial crime fighting fortunes of Latvia. If you are involved in the fight against financial crime ...

The UK must rethink how political finance rules address increasingly complex foreign financial interference threats. The UK government’s decision to implement a moratorium on donations made in ...

A generation of executives, ascendent post-Cold War, lack an institutional memory of intensifying divergence between the world’s largest economies. History offers a roadmap. Beginning during the ...