In Western media, Serbia is often presented as a pawn in Vladimir Putin’s confrontation with his US counterparts. However, the real situation is far more complex. While the Russian state…
This week at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Kamala Harris and Tim Walz will formally accept their party’s nomination for president and vice-president. Given the speed and unusual circumstances…
With the US presidential election fast approaching, Ukraine’s allies in the West have been trying to find ways to shore up Kyiv. Further support for Ukraine seems much more uncertain…
The PR industry presents a conundrum in the fight against money laundering and kleptocracy
February 2024 marks a bleak anniversary, two years since the Russian invasion into Ukraine
Insights from FPC Fellows & Friends on the upcoming G20 Leaders' Summit and thematic priorities.
By the end of 2024, significant elections will have taken place in the United States (US), the United Kingdom (UK) and at the European Parliament. Meanwhile, Irish citizens will go to the polls no later than March 2025 for a general election. The collective outcomes of these elections will undoubtedly have an impact on an already fraught global landscape and the extent to which these countries individually, or collectively, ...
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Ambassador Derek Shearer, Director of the McKinnon Centre for Global Affairs and former US Ambassador to Finland
Mary Fitzgerald, Non-Resident Scholar at the Middle East Institute
Keynote: Anthony Silberfeld, the Bertelsmann Foundation
Chair: Sarah Carey, Irish Independent
Royal College of Surgeons, 123 St Stephens Green, Dublin
With the US presidential election fast approaching, Ukraine’s allies in the West have been trying to find ways to shore up Kyiv. Further support for Ukraine seems much more uncertain…
In Western media, Serbia is often presented as a pawn in Vladimir Putin’s confrontation with his US counterparts. However, the real situation is far more complex. While the Russian state…
This week at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Kamala Harris and Tim Walz will formally accept their party’s nomination for president and vice-president. Given the speed and unusual circumstances…
On Monday 8 July 2024, the Foreign Policy Centre and the Department of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Birmingham (POLSIS) hosted an online roundtable with policymakers,…
Over the past few weeks, two events have dramatically changed the nature of the US presidential race. Joe Biden’s debacle in his debate against Donald Trump threw the Democratic Party…
Some aspects of Sunday’s European Parliament election results were expected (a victory for the centre-right European People’s Party (EPP), declining support for the Greens, some strengthening of the far right),…
This year’s European elections are like no other. The political map of Europe is being redrawn with populist and authoritarian parties expected to gain ground in most member states. As…
On 18th May the President of Georgia, Salome Zurabishvili, vetoed the Law on Transparency of Foreign Influence. The President concluded that “it is impossible to improve this law” since it…
Summary: The lessons which the international community have drawn thus far from Russia's aggression against Ukraine have been dominated by the necessity of measures in the military sphere. However, the…
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In March 2024, the Foreign Policy Centre (FPC), together with the APPG on Ukraine, and with support from the University of Birmingham, convened an off-the-record roundtable meeting in Parliament to…
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Over the past decade, international trade has become an increasingly contentious political issue in both the United Kingdom and the United States. Departing from a postwar consensus in favour of…
The global struggle to protect free speech has reached a new fever pitch. The power of news media to act as a safeguard against tyranny has been critically undermined as…
A lively event in parliament this week discussed how Britain’s PR industry could stop ‘butlering to the world’: serving kleptocrats and some of the most corrupt people around.[1] As…
As 2024 dawned, the world found itself plunged into deeper socio-political upheaval, with ever more tumultuous events dominating global headlines. Overshadowed amongst these was the elections that took place in…
The London-based charity Justice for Journalists Foundation (JFJ), in partnership with the National Union of Journalists in Ukraine, has been collecting open-source evidence and satellite imagery of attacks on media…