The Foreign Affairs Committee (FAC) published yesterday the findings from its recent inquiry into the UK’s engagement in Central Asia, the first such inquiry into the region since 1999. The…
The survival of the world’s largest regional security organisation—the 57-member Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)—is under threat from Russian ambitions to upend the existing international order.[1] Whether,…
In this interview, Ruth Bergan (Transform Trade) and Phil Bloomer (Business & Human Rights Resource Centre) analyse what is meant by ‘Accelerated, Inclusive & Resilient Growth’, how to anchor these…
Insights from FPC Fellows & Friends on the upcoming G20 Leaders' Summit and thematic priorities.
February 2023 marks a bleak anniversary, a year since the Russian invasion into Ukraine.
Country briefing papers from ‘Britain as a ‘force for good’ in Central Asia’ Working Group.
The Foreign Policy Centre (FPC), the Justice for Journalists Foundation (JFJ) and the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) are delighted to announce the third edition of the UK Anti-SLAPP Conference to be held on Monday 27 and Tuesday 28 November 2023, both online and in-person in London. We are pleased that we will also be joined this year by the Thomson Reuters Foundation as a supporting organisation, ...
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In this interview, Ruth Bergan (Transform Trade) and Phil Bloomer (Business & Human Rights Resource Centre) analyse what is meant by ‘Accelerated, Inclusive & Resilient Growth’, how to anchor these…
The Foreign Affairs Committee (FAC) published yesterday the findings from its recent inquiry into the UK’s engagement in Central Asia, the first such inquiry into the region since 1999. The…
The survival of the world’s largest regional security organisation—the 57-member Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)—is under threat from Russian ambitions to upend the existing international order.[1] Whether,…
In this interview, Dr Joe Devanny (King's College London) and Catherine Stihler (Creative Commons) examine whether the UK’s approach is fit for purpose in the age of digital transformation, especially…
Barring some unforeseen event, or unexpected late addition to the race, the next US presidential election is shaping up to be a contest between Joe Biden and Donald Trump. With…
In this interview, Marissa Conway (UNA-UK) and GAPS (Gender Action for Peace and Security - the UK’s Women, Peace and Security civil society network) discuss what women-led development should, and…
A decade ago, in September 2013, Chinese President Xi Jinping launched what became known in English as the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in the Kazakh capital Astana.[1] This did…
In this interview, Lilei Chow (Save the Children) and Dr Abigael Baldoumas (Policy and advocacy consultant) discuss if there is evidence of accelerating progress on SDGs, and whether the UK…
Today’s authoritarian actors, including powerful authoritarian states, can remotely surveil, threaten and harass individuals inside the United Kingdom (UK). The most frequently targeted are those within diaspora communities, students, activists,…
In this article, Thomas E. Garrett (Secretary General of the Community of Democracies) and Fred Carver (Managing Director of Strategy for Humanity) look at what role multilateral institutions have in…
Disclaimer: This article references topics that readers may find distressing and/or triggering. Sexual violence has long been part of armed conflict. Despite prohibitions against sexual violence having been…
On a hot summer day in 1983, the Islamic Republic authorities hanged 17 year old Mona Mahmoudnezhad. Her crime? Teaching morality to children. On another hot summer day, this…
The G20 leaders met over the weekend, 9-10th September 2023, and reached a consensus on a joint declaration, but not without differing views on the war in Ukraine and climate…
As the world gears up for the G20 Summit in Delhi, the gap between growing demand for global responses to many urgent crises, and the ability of existing global governance…
The upcoming G20 meeting serves to highlight the ongoing lack of clarity around the UK’s policy coordination with the European Union (EU) block. The UK’s Integrated Review, published in 2021,…