FPC Briefing: How to Maintain Integrity of Elections during the Covid-19 Pandemic
As the world faces its worse pandemic in over a century, there is little doubt where the virus originated and how it spread to the rest of the world. Nevertheless,…
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Balancing the conflict between the rights to health and religion in Georgia
Health is a public good and a fundamental requirement necessary to enjoy a number of other rights including right to freedom of religion. The right to health has been codified…
A global and deadly virus becomes a tool for political repression in Azerbaijan
Beaten students, poor hospital facilities, changes in legislation, arrests of political foes - this is how Azerbaijan has been dealing with COVID19 pandemic that has reached the country’s borders in…
FPC Briefing: Liberalism and Geopolitics beyond COVID-19
Spare a thought for my generation - Generation X, the generation born immediately following the Baby Boom, from the mid-1960s to the end of the 1970s. Mine was the generation…
Coronavirus response shows Disinformation is the new normal
The Coronavirus pandemic is becoming a watershed moment for how states tussle on the international stage. Spies, special operations and high-stakes negotiations are no longer the tools of choice. Instead,…
FPC Briefing: The Deconstruction of Diyarbakır’s old centre
'The Deconstruction of Diyarbakır’s old centre: Violating international law and disregarding the interests of local populations' was drafted by Zekeriyya Yahya Karapinar, consultant with the Norwegian Helsinki Committee (NHC), and…
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Italy and Central Asia, a ‘proxy friendship’ or a serious foreign policy commitment?
In March 2019, Italy was the first main European country, and the first G7 member, to sign a Memorandum of Understanding with China on its infrastructure strategy, the Belt and…
Finding Britain’s role in a changing world: Executive Summary
The United Kingdom is preparing for its post-Brexit place in the world at a time when the principles of liberal democracy and the rules-based world order are facing their greatest…
Finding Britain’s role in a changing world: Introduction
The world we are in Britain steps out into the post-Brexit world at a time of international turmoil. For over a decade liberal democracy has been in decline, as competing…
When times change should we change with them?
Royal Assent to the European Withdrawal Act was announced in the House of Lords on Thursday, 23rd January 2020.[1] That was the legal launch pad for our exit from the…