Gen Z, Agency and Engagement: From Tokenism to Meaningful Collaboration
Young people are often described as the ‘future’, yet they are already shaping political life in the present. We are two young leaders from very different contexts: the UK and…
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Expert Briefing | ‘Rhetoric, Disorder, and the Crisis of Democracy’
Young people are often described as the ‘future’, yet they are already shaping political life in the present. We are two young leaders from very different contexts: the UK and…
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Op-ed | Devolving to a More Resilient Nation: Lessons From Ukraine
Young people are often described as the ‘future’, yet they are already shaping political life in the present. We are two young leaders from very different contexts: the UK and…
Op-ed | After the Locals: How Reform and the Greens Could Reshape Foreign Policy
Young people are often described as the ‘future’, yet they are already shaping political life in the present. We are two young leaders from very different contexts: the UK and…
Op-ed | International Aid as a Line of Defence: What Happens to Human Security Without Soft Power?
Young people are often described as the ‘future’, yet they are already shaping political life in the present. We are two young leaders from very different contexts: the UK and…
Op-ed | World Health Day: Reimagining UK Leadership in Global Health
Young people are often described as the ‘future’, yet they are already shaping political life in the present. We are two young leaders from very different contexts: the UK and…
Op-ed | How the UK Fuels Child Undernutrition in Low- and Middle-Income Countries by Enabling Illicit Finance
Young people are often described as the ‘future’, yet they are already shaping political life in the present. We are two young leaders from very different contexts: the UK and…
Five Priorities for the UK as it Retakes the Chair of the Media Freedom Coalition
Young people are often described as the ‘future’, yet they are already shaping political life in the present. We are two young leaders from very different contexts: the UK and…
Op-ed | Iran Attack Shows Limits of Starmer’s ‘Trump-Whispering’
Young people are often described as the ‘future’, yet they are already shaping political life in the present. We are two young leaders from very different contexts: the UK and…
Op-ed | Patterns of History in Transatlantic Relations
Young people are often described as the ‘future’, yet they are already shaping political life in the present. We are two young leaders from very different contexts: the UK and…
Op-ed | What Trump Hopes to Gain by Taking on the BBC
Young people are often described as the ‘future’, yet they are already shaping political life in the present. We are two young leaders from very different contexts: the UK and…
Op-ed | Science as Soft Power: How UK Research Institutions Drive Global Health Impact
Young people are often described as the ‘future’, yet they are already shaping political life in the present. We are two young leaders from very different contexts: the UK and…
Publications
Rethinking Democracy: Through the Lens of Culture, Trust and Agency
Mini-series by the Foreign Policy Centre and the John Smith Trust (JST)
13/07/26
Playing to our strengths: The future of the UK’s soft power in foreign policy
This report proposes a way forward for the UK Government to develop a soft power…
02/09/25
What’s the Risk? PR & Communication Agencies and Kleptocracy
The PR industry presents a conundrum in the fight against money laundering and kleptocracy
04/03/24
Dividing Lines: Reimagining Social Division in ‘Divided Societies’
Read this SEPAD project and FPC publication.
19/07/22
‘London Calling’: The issue of legal intimidation and SLAPPs against media emanating from the United Kingdom
London is a hotspot for issuing SLAPP cases against journalists stifling media freedom here &…
25/04/22
A ‘Force for Good’?
A ‘Force for Good’?: Examining UK engagement in Fragile and Conflict Affected Countries
06/12/21
Global Britain for an open world?
Examining the importance of open societies to the UK’s ‘force for good’ ambitions.
19/10/21
Global Britons: Understanding the unique British communities in Brussels and Washington DC
This report focuses on two unusual but strategically important British communities overseas.
14/04/21
Partnerships for the future of UK Foreign Policy
Part of the ‘Finding Britain’s role in a changing world’ publication series.
16/12/20
Unsafe for Scrutiny: How the misuse of the UK’s financial and legal systems to facilitate corruption undermines the freedom and safety of investigative journalists around the world
This is the second publication produced under the FPC’s ‘Unsafe for Scrutiny’ project.
09/12/20
Projecting the UK’s values abroad
Part of the ‘Finding Britain’s role in a changing world’ publication series.
03/12/20
Unsafe for Scrutiny: Examining the pressures faced by journalists uncovering financial crime and corruption around the world
Report highlights UK's role as top international source of legal threats to journalists
02/11/20