Diplomatic Hour: In Conversation with the Estonian Ambassador
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by BFPG Admin
6d ago
On the 21st March 2024, The British Foreign Policy Group was privileged to host His Excellency Mr Viljar Lubi, Ambassador of Estonia to the United Kingdom, for a closed-door roundtable focused on some of the biggest challenges facing both the UK and Estonia. The event brought together a group of UK-based experts, policymakers, business- and thought-leaders with an interest in the bilateral relationship, the wider Baltic region, and European security more broadly. The roundtable was run under the ‘Chatham House’ rule and stimulated an engaging conversation around Estonia’s own perspectives on s ..read more
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Labour’s Deputy Leader and the Tax Row – BBC Newsnight
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by BBC Newsnight
6d ago
Labour’s Deputy Leader and the Tax Row – BBC Newsnight BFPG’s 2023 Annual Survey polling on Britons’ support for defence spending is discussed on BBC Newsnight. You can watch the clip here. The post Labour’s Deputy Leader and the Tax Row – BBC Newsnight appeared first on British Foreign Policy Group ..read more
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London Playbook PM: 1922 problems – POLITICO
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by POLITICO
6d ago
London Playbook PM: 1922 problems – POLITICO The appointment of Conservative SpAd Daniel El–Gamry, and civil servant Matthew Otubu, to BFPG’s new Advisory Board is announced in POLITICO’s London Playbook PM newsletter. You can see the announcement in POLITICO’s newsletter here. The post London Playbook PM: 1922 problems – POLITICO appeared first on British Foreign Policy Group ..read more
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Leading the Way to Where?
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by David Landsman
6d ago
Ministers rarely make public statements which go beyond established policy and appear to be arguing for change. So when two Ministers, Anne-Marie Trevelyan (formerly Defence Secretary and now in the FCDO) and Tom Tugendhat (Security Minister in the Home Office and a former Army reservist) published an article arguing for increased defence spending, it was bound to attract attention.    There’s plenty we could discuss here. What is the increased threat the UK faces and what specific measures should be taken to address it? How to prioritise between conventional forces, the nuclear ..read more
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The Iranian Election: Implications for the UK
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by Ali Khosravi
6d ago
On Friday 1st March, the Islamic Republic of Iran held a tightly controlled set of legislative elections for both the Majles and the ‘Assembly Experts’. The latter is a body of 88 ‘qualified’ clerics elected once every 8 years, tasked with choosing the next ‘supreme’ leader. The body elected on March 1st is likely to be the one that chooses the successor to the ailing 84-year-old ‘supreme’ leader, Ali Khamenei.  These elections were the first since the nationwide protests in 2022-23 after the death of Mahsa Amini in the custody of Iran’s morality police, and the subsequent state crackdown ..read more
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Introducing BFPG’s Advisory Board
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by The British Foreign Policy Group
6d ago
The British Foreign Policy Group is delighted to announce the appointment of our new Advisory Board. As the UK’s leading think tank focused on the interface between foreign and domestic policy, we believe that effective foreign policy decision-making requires diverse insights and expertise. Bringing together experts from across business, civil society, government and academia, our advisory board will help guide and support BFPG’s work in the next stage of our development. David Landsman OBE, Senior Advisor at BFPG, will chair the Board. We are delighted therefore to announce the following indi ..read more
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One Year On: How Has the Integrated Review Refresh Held Up?
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by Evie Aspinall
1w ago
When the Integrated Review Refresh was released in March 2023, it was designed to respond to the myriad of challenges brought about by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine that its predecessor, the Integrated Review, failed to foresee two years earlier. But with conflict in the Middle East, ongoing war in Ukraine, and deep-seated economic challenges in the UK, how have the Refresh’s principles and priorities held up? And how much progress has been made? The Refresh is undermined by failure to prioritise the Middle East Focused on strengthening the Indo-Pacific tilt and on building on the momentum arou ..read more
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Women Shaping Global Politics
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by The British Foreign Policy Group
1w ago
The British Foreign Policy Group and our sister organisations British Expertise International (BEI) and the D Group, are delighted to host an expert panel of ‘Women Shaping Global Politics’. With the rise of AI, conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East, and the growing threat of climate change, the future of global politics looks increasingly uncertain.  This event will bring together a panel of leading female foreign policy voices from across Westminster to discuss their expectations for the future of global politics, and draw on their experiences to explore how we can meet some of the c ..read more
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BFPG’s February Review
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by British Foreign Policy Group
3w ago
February has been a month of milestones, with the most notable being the 2nd anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The day was marked across the world as well as in Kyiv, where Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was joined by the leaders of Canada, Italy, Belgium and the European Commission, to lay wreaths at the Wall of Remembrance. It was an important moment against a backdrop of splintering Western consensus on Ukraine. Director Evie Aspinall has written a piece on whether the West can maintain support for Ukraine as the war enters its third year, a ..read more
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Globalisation: Is it over? What’s next?
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by David Landsman
1M ago
As we mark the second anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, serious talk is turning to questions that haven’t been heard in a couple of generations: the need to be on a war footing, for rearmament, even conscription. Since the end of the Cold War, we have all become used to spending the “peace dividend”, cashing in on the “end of history”. The rupture with our recent past can hardly be overstated. If you believed the sayings that where goods cross borders, soldiers don’t – or that there can’t be wars between two countries that have a McDonald’s – then the era of globalisation really ..read more
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