This week’s NATO summit in Ankara takes place at a pivotal moment in the alliance’s evolution – and for US–Europe relations. In Ankara, the agenda will rightly focus on defence spending targets and ...
A tortuous process has produced a plan that does not set a clear path towards meeting the UK’s defence expenditure targets.
Disagreements over the Iran war and defence procurement threaten to turn the annual summit into another theatre for division ...
Image — Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper in April at a virtual summit of countries discussing how to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Photo: Leon Neal/Getty Images. The world is more dangerous than it has ...
Foreign policy in Britain is often discussed as if it were a distant theatre, detached from the everyday realities of people’s lives. Yet the past decade has shown repeatedly that global shocks land ...
The Trump administration’s approach to controlling US companies’ powerful AI capabilities is volatile. It undercuts global ...
Formula 1’s regulator uses a diverse toolkit of rules and penalties to deliver multiple objectives. This could hold lessons ...
Europe cannot affect the course of America’s latest reinvention, as it did 250 years ago. But it can adapt to a more unhappy ...
In this week’s episode of Independent Thinking, our experts discuss Sir Keir Starmer’s resignation and the challenges awaiting the Labour Party’s next leader. UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer leaves ...
Image — China's President Xi Jinping speaks during a bilateral meeting with UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres ahead of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit in Tianjin on 30 August ...
This symbolic contrast is important. More than four years after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia has not been isolated in the way many Western governments expected or hoped. Large parts of ...
Britain’s defence policy has been dysfunctional for decades. The slow implementation of the 2025 Strategic Defence Review and delays in the release of the Defence Investment Plan (DIP) – originally ...
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