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September 26, 2025

The Sustainable Development Goals at 10: how global governance is undermining progress

Benjamin Faude This month marks ten years since the adoption of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. Yet there is little cause for celebration: progress has been dismal. Benjamin Faude and Jack Taggart argue that the governance of the goals has undermined progress. They warn that rather than achieving transformative change, such governance risks entrenching the beleaguered status quo Read more
September 22, 2025

☢️ What the two-peer nuclear challenge means for NATO and European security 

Adérito Vicente The rise of China as a nuclear peer to the US, amid deepening strategic ties with Russia, poses an unprecedented 'two-peer challenge' to NATO. Adérito Vicente examines how this shifting landscape endangers alliance cohesion. Here, he argues for a fundamental rethinking of Europe’s deterrence and defence posture  Read more
September 16, 2025

China’s DeepSeek illustrates how AI is shaping our political norms  

Ruairidh Brown The view that DeepSeek is a tool of Chinese censorship is, Ruairidh Brown argues, mistaken. The AI is not censoring but self-censoring, a crucial distinction for understanding its role in shaping political norms Read more
August 25, 2025

US assertiveness, China’s globalism, and the emerging AI governance race 

Elif Davutoğlu As the US and China unveil rival AI governance blueprints, Elif Davutoğlu explores how these policy visions reflect deeper geopolitical strategies. Framed as calls for innovation or cooperation, both documents signal a global legitimacy race in which AI governance becomes a battleground for shaping the future international order  Read more
August 14, 2025

How do Chinese citizens perceive environmental protection? 

Peter Chai In China do age, education, income, and urbanisation relate to attitudes to environmental protection? To find out, Peter Chai analyses survey data gathered from people on the mainland, between 2005 and 2022. Surprisingly, he finds no clear relationships between socio-demographic variables and concern about the environment  Read more
July 14, 2025

☢️ Nuclear future – deterrence or disarmament?

Cecilia Gustavsson The core principles of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) are to prevent a the development and acquisition of nuclear weapons, and to reach complete disarmament. But, argues Cecilia Gustavsson, without improved transparency and independent verification mechanisms, the NPT could, paradoxically, accelerate a new nuclear arms race Read more
July 9, 2025

The British National (Overseas) visa: a geopolitical tool in UK-China relations 

James F. Downes Political parties frame the UK’s British National (Overseas) visa scheme as historical humanitarian responsibility towards Hong Kong in the context of UK-China relations. But is that really the case? James F. Downes and Kenneth Lai analysed parliamentary speeches from 2019 to 2023. Their findings suggest the UK government uses BNO visas as a geopolitical tool Read more
July 4, 2025

JD Vance’s international right-wing populism

Yunus Poblome Right-wing populism has gone beyond the nation state. Analysing JD Vance’s speech at the Munich Security Conference earlier this year, Yunus Poblome describes how US foreign policy under Trump depicts Europe as being led by a corrupt elite which refuses to listen to its conservative people. This, he argues, further legitimise Europe’s own right-wing populists Read more

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