Foreign Policy

A Safer and More Prosperous World: Why aid really matters in an age of austerity

Posted by Andrew Mitchell on 24th June at 10:13am

At a time when the UK economic recovery is slow and budget cuts are common right across Whitehall, the UK government's commitment to increase its international development budget has never been more controversial. Can spending so much in developing countries be

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Strategic Choices in an Uncertain World

Posted by James Morris on 30th April at 4:34pm

We are living through what might be termed a grand transition. We are seeing a shift in global political and economic dynamics with the axis of global power moving inexorably from the west to the east. Defining Britain's response to this 'grand transition' and

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Arab Spring: Working with the True Democrats

Posted by Nadhim Zahawi on 27th April at 3:58pm

Last year events in North Africa and the Middle East refuted, once and for all, the lazy assumption that popular sovereignty and human rights are intrinsically Western values with no relevance to the Arab world.

In Tunisia, Egypt and Libya three nasty Cold W

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