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4 weeks ago | 
theconversation.com | Shampa Roy-Mukherjee |Jamie Gaskarth |Linda Yueh |Nicky Shaw |Simon Williams |Steve Schifferes | +1 more
Not even six months on from Labour’s first budget, and the world is a much-changed place. Geopolitical tensions and uncertainties, already high last year, have risen further, and with them the cost of the UK’s debt, while economic growth has stalled. As such, Chancellor Rachel Reeves has confronted an array of unpalatable choices – notably cutting disability benefits – to enable her to increase defence spending and stabilise the public finances.
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4 weeks ago | 
theconversation.com | Shampa Roy-Mukherjee |Jamie Gaskarth |Linda Yueh |Nicky Shaw |Simon Williams |Steve Schifferes | +1 more
Not even six months on from Labour’s first budget, and the world is a much-changed place. Geopolitical tensions and uncertainties, already high last year, have risen further, and with them the cost of the UK’s debt, while economic growth has stalled. As such, Chancellor Rachel Reeves has confronted an array of unpalatable choices – notably cutting disability benefits – to enable her to increase defence spending and stabilise the public finances.
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
tolerance.ca | Jamie Gaskarth
By Jamie Gaskarth, Professor of Foreign Policy and International Relations, The Open University
The UK government has it is suspending 30 arms export licences to Israel for military equipment used in operations in Gaza. The rationale for this decision was “the clear risk that items exported to Israel under these 30 licences might be used in serious violations of IHL [international humanitarian law]”.
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
theconversation.com | Jamie Gaskarth
The UK government has it is suspending 30 arms export licences to Israel for military equipment used in operations in Gaza. The rationale for this decision was “the clear risk that items exported to Israel under these 30 licences might be used in serious violations of IHL [international humanitarian law]”. Israel’s military actions in Gaza following the October 7 massacre of civilians by Hamas have drawn widespread criticism from human rights groups and the United Nations.
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Jun 5, 2024 | 
rusi.org | Jamie Gaskarth
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Mar 24, 2023 | 
engelsbergideas.com | Jamie Gaskarth
Using intelligence to foresee threats and forestall them, the CIA is finally working as intended. A Question of Standing: The History of the CIA, Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, Oxford University Press, 2022On 16 April 1947, in a speech about labour relations, the long-time Presidential Advisor and financier Bernard Baruch stated: ‘we are today in the midst of a Cold War. Our enemies are to be found abroad and at home’.
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Mar 9, 2023 | 
tandfonline.com | Jamie Gaskarth
This special feature emerged from a workshop on the UK’s tilt to the Indo-Pacific, organised by the Open University and the Council on Geostrategy and involving academics as well as UK government officials. It aims to unpack the assumptions of the 2021 Integrated Review and to offer practical insights into the opportunities and challenges of the UK’s future engagement with the region.
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Mar 3, 2023 | 
tolerance.ca | Jamie Gaskarth
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Mar 3, 2023 | 
theconversation.com | Jamie Gaskarth
How can you hold the intelligence and security services accountable, when what they do is secret? The third and final report from the public inquiry into the 2017 Manchester arena bombing is a useful guide. Sir John Saunders, the retired judge in charge of the inquiry, has given a damning verdict on how government agencies handled the case of Salman Abedi, the man who set off a bomb at an Ariana Grande concert.
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Jan 31, 2023 | 
express.co.uk | Jamie Gaskarth
Meanwhile, the EU had failed badly in dealing with the various crises of the 2010s, from Greece’s debt problems to migration to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Economic and political power was predicted to shift to the Indo-Pacific. Three of the four largest economies in the world in 2050 were expected to be from the region, with China and India first and second and Indonesia fourth.
