Three years on from Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, John Smith Fellows are focusing on systemic change and are at the forefront of Ukraine’s democratic transformation and recovery. In…
When Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine our immediate priority was to support Ukrainian John Smith Fellows in our network. This included amplifying their humanitarian work, showing solidarity and…
Yesterday, Donald Trump announced a shift towards protectionism, the likes of which the world has not seen since the Great Depression. For decades, global prosperity has been underpinned by…
February 2025 marks three years since Russia's full-scale invasion into Ukraine
A mini-series by FPC and City St George’s, University of London on the drivers of…
The PR industry presents a conundrum in the fight against money laundering and kleptocracy
Since his inauguration on 20 January 2025, President Trump has moved much more aggressively to transform policy than in his first term, both at home and abroad. Sweeping changes, including the dismantling of USAID, drastic shifts in US policy toward Ukraine, the threatened annexation of Greenland and Canada, and escalating tariffs have had global reverberations. At home, Trump has mounted an unprecedented challenge to constitutional checks on his power. ...
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Dr Courtney Radsch, Director, Center for Journalism and Liberty
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Alice Copland, Policy and Parliamentary Affairs Manager at Foreign Policy Centre
Yesterday, Donald Trump announced a shift towards protectionism, the likes of which the world has not seen since the Great Depression. For decades, global prosperity has been underpinned by…
Three years on from Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, John Smith Fellows are focusing on systemic change and are at the forefront of Ukraine’s democratic transformation and recovery. In…
When Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine our immediate priority was to support Ukrainian John Smith Fellows in our network. This included amplifying their humanitarian work, showing solidarity and…
The call between President Trump and President Putin on 12 February 2025, left millions of Ukrainians in a state of silent disbelief, shock, and even grief. Along with the comments…
At a recent protest, when asked about the kind of peace he was clamouring for, a participant hesitated briefly before responding emphatically: ‘a peace to end all wars, a peace…
Every war is a war against children. However, in its war in Ukraine, the Russian Government has specifically targeted children as a tool to disrupt Ukrainian communities, and secure long-term…
Right now, thousands of Ukrainian children do not know if their parents are alive. Tens of thousands have been taken to Russia, while hundreds of thousands have been lost in…
Last year, on the second anniversary of the Russian invasion, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the US Department of the Treasury published yet another list of sanctioned…
In the past few weeks, Europe has been hit with a series of shocks. Firstly, the Trump administration has threatened military force to take control of Greenland, the territory of…
Last week, the Trump administration met with Kremlin representatives in Saudi Arabia for negotiations that could pave the way for an end to Russia’s three-year full-scale war in Ukraine. Already,…
On the third anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the world continues to witness the resilience of the Ukrainian people. Among them, journalists stand on the frontlines of an…
There was a famous saying that all roads lead to Rome. Now they are leading to Kyiv, in all senses: geopolitical, geo-economic, value-based and rule-based order or at least in…
85 years ago, in December 1940, Franklin Roosevelt described the US as the ‘great arsenal of democracy’ in a broadcast made less than a year before the country decisively entered…
The rapid disintegration of the regime of Bashar Al-Assad stunned observers. Forces from Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS), the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army and Syrian Free Army converged on Damascus on…
Corruption, as understood to be “the abuse of entrusted power for private gain,” is hardly a new phenomenon, however the scale to which it occurs today, especially transnationally, and more…