Programmes
The Foreign Policy Centre’s Programmes are collections of major research themes that the organisation is currently working on through research and events.
Tackling Transnational Repression
Through research, advocacy and collaboration, the Foreign Policy Centre aims to raise awareness of transnational repression as a growing threat to democratic resilience and fundamental rights. As part of this work, FPC is a founding ...
Unsafe for Scrutiny
Examining the pressures faced by journalists uncovering financial crime and corruption around the world.
Finding Britain’s role in a changing world
What do the challenges, posed by both ‘Brexit’ and an increasingly volatile world, mean for the UK now and for its future.
The Future of Europe
Europe is facing a number of interlocking challenges that are testing its institutions to the limits. Aging populations, economies struggling to recover from the 2008 economic crisis, mass migration, distrusted institutions and rising strategic and ...
The Future of the Middle East – SEPAD Partnership
The Foreign Policy Centre, together with the Sectarianism, Proxies and De-sectarianisation (SEPAD) project based at Lancaster University’s Richardson Institute are working together to explore ‘The Future of the Middle East’.
Exporting Repression
Authoritarian governments are increasingly seeking to spread their values beyond their borders and put pressure their opponents abroad. Regimes are learning from each other new ways to restrict the freedoms of their citizens and are ...
Shrinking space for civil society
Across the world independent civil society is coming under growing pressure from governments made uncomfortable by their work.
Institutions in crisis
Across the world national and international institutions are under increasing pressure from both citizens, who may no longer feel that they respond to their needs, and political leaders (particularly, but by no means exclusively, from ...