Japan's commitment to spending 2% of GDP on defence by 2027 marks a strategic shift, reflecting Tokyo's proactive stance on ...

Iran proxies have been substantially degraded, and this has an unquestionable impact,” on the Assad regime’s ground forces, said Burcu Ozcelik, a Middle East expert with the Royal United Services ...

A forthcoming paper by the Royal United Services Institute, a military think tank, takes a sober look at this. It argues: “Without increased attention and resources, the JEF is unable to deliver upon ...

A recent report by academics at the Royal United Services Institute (Rusi) identified the same shift: that in the “gig-economy era”, the Kremlin can outsource its aggression to anybody in want of a ...

Now past its 1,000th day, Russia’s war on Ukraine seems set to continue. Yet new dynamics are in play and the international ...

How might a second Trump term reshape the US’s use of sanctions? Host Kinga Redlowska, CFS Director Tom Keatinge and sanctions expert Jeff Lord examine the potential impact of a second Trump term on ...

Europe and the US must capitalise on Iran’s vulnerabilities and time pressures to push for meaningful nuclear diplomacy ...

When protests against decades of rule by the Assad family were crushed by Syrian government forces in the spring of 2011, opposition groups took up arms and the country descended into civil war. The ...

This paper seeks to outline the likely scope of a putative presence of the People’s Liberation Army Navy in and around the Euro-Atlantic in the next 15 years and the nature of the foreign policy it ...

This policy brief, written for authorities responsible for the risk-assessment process, aims to offer insight on five key challenges that jurisdictions face with a sectoral virtual asset risk ...