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Syria: Bombing, Peace, and Then What?
BY DR CHRIS TUCK Stabilisation is out of fashion: burned by our experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan there seems precious little appetite for engagement any time soon in complex nation-building tasks....
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Thinking the Unthinkable over ISIL
This is the third in a series of posts to come out of the Regional Security Research Centre (RSRC) organised Round Table titled ‘Decoding IS [DAISH] – Retrospect and Prospect’, which took place on 8...
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The UAE’s Jeffersonian Foreign Policy
DR DAVID ROBERTS A small Arab Gulf State is not the first place in the Middle East that one might expect to fashion a foreign policy according to Thomas Jefferson’s dictum of the importance of...
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Why Islamic State is wrong: Sykes-Picot is not responsible for controversial...
This is Part One of a two part series on Sykes-Picot and the controversial borders of the Middle East. Dr Rod Thornton The Sykes-Picot Agreement, reached during the First World War by Britain and...
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Why Islamic State is wrong: Sykes-Picot is not responsible for controversial...
This is Part Two of a two part series on the topic by Dr. Rod Thornton. Dr Rod Thornton Throughout Ottoman times and from probably much earlier, it was the agricultural produce of the Mosul vilayet...
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Syria’s ceasefire and the challenges of war termination
DR CHRIS TUCK The current ceasefire in Syria is under significant pressure and claims of local violations continue to grow. It has, at least, succeeded in reducing the scale of the fighting, which is...
View ArticleIran and (in)security in the Gulf
This post is based on a paper of the same name delivered as part of the Regional Security Research (RSRC) panel titled ‘After the Arab Spring: Regime Security in the Arabian Gulf’, on September 27,...
View ArticleResolving Conflict in Syria and other 21st Century Wars
ANGUS MCKEE is a diplomat in the Foreign & Commonwealth Office and a 2017 graduate of the Royal College of Defence Studies. This post is based on his MA dissertation. The views expressed in this...
View ArticlePredicting future trends in warfare
DR GERAINT HUGHES At the end of last month The Economist published a special report on ‘The Future of War’ by Matthew Symonds. Symonds’ report is well-researched and addresses a wide array of...
View ArticleThe Russian military’s ‘permanent’ commitment in Syria and the Eastern...
DR ROD THORNTON, Defence Studies Department, King’s College London The Russian military appears to be in Syria very much for the long haul. Indeed, the adjective ‘permanent’ [postoyannyi] has been...
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