Projecting the UK’s values abroad: Executive Summary
2021 is going to be an important year for the UK’s global ambitions. Exiting both the post-Brexit transition period and, vaccines permitting, the toughest COVID restrictions the UK will have…
Articles, Briefings and Essays
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Projecting the UK’s values abroad: Introduction
This essay collection asks, and tries to answer, the question ‘what can Britain do now?’ It is an examination of the emerging tools and strategies the UK can use to…
The UK needs a national strategy for the next generations to guide future foreign policy
The NSxNG approach to making future UK foreign policy and wider national strategy In the context of Brexit and COVID-19, there is a growing sense that we need to collectively…
How the UK becomes a global force for Democracy and Freedom
The Government’s current Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy seeks to position the UK after Brexit and in the context of a Biden-administration taking office. My…
2021 – A pivotal year ahead for ‘Global Britain’
Ever since the referendum, Boris Johnson, Theresa May and other Conservative Party politicians have presented Brexit as the first step toward building a new ‘Global Britain’. As Johnson declared in…
Could the UK project positive values on financial transparency?
The global pandemic has put pressures on public services and on government revenue streams all around the world. Immediate measures being discussed include wealth taxes on those most able to…
An environmental dimension to UK foreign policy
Four years on from the vote to leave the European Union (EU) much has been written about the UK’s international role in a post-Brexit world. Only recently, however, has the…
Three pillars for a sustainable trade policy after Brexit
In January, for the first time in nearly 50 years, the UK will ‘take back control’ of its trade policy from the EU. During and since the referendum campaign, Brexit-supporting…
The ethics of offensive cyber operations
Turn off the lights in Moscow? This is just one of the possible uses of offensive cyber operations (OCOs) briefed to the press by senior British defence sources.[1] Put simply,…
Downgrading DFID – How will Britain’s Overseas Development Aid Agenda change now DFID is part of the FCO?
For the last 23 years, since the birth of the Blair government, a key aspect of British foreign policy, and indeed Britain’s global reputation, has been its overseas development aid…