Thank you for your patience as we slowly compile the many contributions of ISWS’ members to public facing scholarship!
Policy Areas
Alliances
Rick Fawn was interviewed and featured by TRT Global for the article “Geopolitical Gravity: How shifting alliances are redrawing a multipolar Eurasia” (4 June 2025).
China and the Indo-Pacific
Catherine Jones joins the IISS Japan Memo podcast (4 March 2025) to discuss “Japan’s challenges amid growing cooperation between Russia and China.”
Catherine Jones joins a mini-roundtable at the Centre for Geopolitics (27 February 2025) on “developments and trends across and beyond the ASEAN region.”
Catherine Jones participated in a panel discussion at the Centre for Geopolitics (24 May 2024) on “The United Kingdom in the Indo-Pacific.”
Catherine Jones analyzes distrust between Washington and Beijing for France24 in advance of Blinkin’s visit.
Catherine Jones speaks to the Centre for Geopolitics (27 February 2023) on “Anxious allies: credibility and commitments towards East Asia” with full you tube video of the event.
Nuclear Strategy
Marc DeVore (with Paul Mason, journalist, and Paul Rogers, co-director of the Council on Geostrategy) write for the Spectator on “Why Britain Must Expand Its Nuclear Arsenal.“
Russia-Ukraine War
Phillips O’Brien regularly writes for The Atlantic including on the Russia-Ukraine War and US foreign policy. The full series of articles is available here.
Marc DeVore regularly writes for Foreign Policy on the Russia-Ukraine War, economic sanctions, and military technology. The full series of articles is available here.
Marc DeVore and Edward Stringer provided oral evidence to the International Relations and Defense Committee of the UK Parliament for the inquiry and associated report “Ukraine: A Wake Up Call” (September 2024).
Marc DeVore speaks to the Times Radio on “How NATO Can Bolster Ukraine’s Defense in 5 Steps” (10 July 2024).
Hew Strachan wrote four articles for The Telegraph during 2022 on strategy and Ukrainian defense needs during the first year of the war. The full series of articles is available here.
Marc DeVore joins Scuttlebutt to discuss Russia’s authoritarian military, their attempt to replicate American technological sophistication, and their initial poor performance in Ukraine (12 April 2022).
Security in the Sahel
Marc DeVore, Kristen Harkness, and Marcel Plichta (with Professor Andrew Orr of Kansas State University) submitted written evidence to the Foreign Affairs Committee of the UK Parliament on Wagner Group activities in the Central African Republic and Mali (May 2022).
Kristen Harkness writes for the Irregular Warfare Initiative, hosted by the Modern War Institute at West Point, that “Security Force Assistance in Africa is Shoring Up Dictatorships.”
Kristen Harkness writes for the Washington Post about the spate of military coups that swept across Africa and especially the Sahel in 2021-22: “Africa Has Had Eight Coup Attempts in Recent Months. What’s Behind the ‘Coup Epidemic’?”
Wargaming and Policy Simulations
Kristen Harkness writes for the UPEN blog (20 March 2024) about her experiences creating a policy simulation on environmental change, deep sea mining, and geostrategic competition in the Arctic.
Catherine Jones presents research into “Strategic Culture and Wargaming for scenarios in the Indo-Pacific” to Connections UK 2023 (5-7 September) at Sandhurst on Day 3 during Plenary 2 with slides and audio available.
PhD students Katarina Birkedal and Felipe Cruvinel write about “Visualising Strategy through Wargames and Crisis Simulations” (5 July 2021) for the Visualising War blog.
ISWS Podcast Series
The Visualizing War and Peace podcast, led by Alice König, invites a wide array of expert guests to explore “how war and battle get presented in art, text, film and music.” Over 85 episodes are available and updated here.
The Syria Series was a 2018 collaboration between ChromeRadio and ISWS. Over six episodes, Jasmine Gani leads conversations including with academic experts and eyewitnesses on the origins, violence, and impacts of the conflict.
The British Home Front 1914-18 was recorded at the University of St Andrews in June 2018 to accompany a conference marking the centenary of the First World War. Over 40 episodes it explores the contribution by the peoples of the British Isles to the national war effort.
The Iran Series was a 2017 collaboration between ChromeRadio and ISWS. Over four episodes, Ali Ansari and Jasmine Gani explore the central role played by the Persians in the foundation of the West, Iranian foreign policy in the Middle East, and the cultural legacy of three of Iran’s great capital cities.
The Present and Future of Airpower podcast resulted from a 2018 conference to celebrate the Royal Air Force’s 100th birthday. Over eleven episodes leading scholars, practitioners, and representatives of business reflect upon the past and future of airpower.