UK Space Command, A Year On
Air Vice-Marshal Paul Godfrey is currently serving as the inaugural commander of UK Space Command. Established on 1 April 2021, Space Command is a Joint Command staffed by all three Services of the Armed Forces, civil servants, and commercial partners. It is responsible for protecting UK and allied interests in space, training and developing the space workforce, and developing space equipment programmes that integrate with various defence capabilities.
Russkiy Mir Expansionism, Ukraine's Military Successes, and Russian Failures
American Grand Strategy After Ukraine
We are delighted to invite you to our fourth event of Trinity 2022, which will take place on Tuesday, 17 May, in the Old Library at All Souls College at 8:30pm. As always, there will be a wine reception prior to the event, starting at 8pm. The speaker will be Dr. Peter Feaver, who will speak to us on the topic of 'American Grand Strategy After Ukraine.'
Is The Russian Army Rotten?
Shashank Joshi is Defence Editor at The Economist, where he covers a wide range of security and defence issues. His most recent briefings have focused on the evolving nature of modern warfare and defence technology, as well as Russia’s war of attrition in Ukraine.
Psycho-Social Perspectives Missing from Discussions about the War on Ukraine
Whit has worked at the intersection of conflict and social construction since starting a newspaper in Novosibirsk in 1991, which was intended to cultivate mutual understanding and friendly relations between Russians and Americans. He has worked as a journalist, for the Australian and British ministries of defence, the US State Department, the UN missions in Kosovo and Afghanistan (about both of which he published books) and for research organisations.
30th Anniversary of the Collapse of the USSR: the Rapid Demise and Long-term Consequences
Professor Wolczuk has extensive experience of working with international organisations, think-tanks, governments and international media and has extensively researched the post-Soviet countries. Kataryna Wolczuk is Professor of Politics at the Centre for Russian, European and Eurasian Studies (CREES), University of Birmingham and Associate Fellow at the Russia and Eurasian Programme, Chatham House.
The Journey Home: Violence, Anchoring, and Refugee Decisions to Return
Study (surprisingly) finds that refugees exposed to violence in Syria before fleeing to safety in Lebanon are more likely to wish to return home to Syria than those not exposed.
Summary
The study seeks to explain why refugees have different preferences on returning to their home country. It takes the example of refugees from Syria, who have fled to Lebanon. It finds that how “anchored” a refugee feels to either their home or host country influences their decision to return.
Introducing the PeaceKeeping Operations Corpus (PKOC)
How to translate UN words into data that can be analysed
Summary
The PeaceKeeping Operations Corpus (PKOC) provides a machine-readable collection of 27 years of UN Secretary-General’s reports on peacekeeping operations.