Regime change for Iran? (Mark Fitzpatrick, IISS)

https://www.iiss.org/en/politics%20and%20strategy/blogsections/2016-d1f9/december-e597/regime-change-for-iran-cf27

Liberal democracies and hybrid war (Kaan Sahin, IISS)

https://www.iiss.org/en/militarybalanceblog/blogsections/2016-629e/december-e473/liberal-democracies-and-hybrid-war-cccb

Middle East maritime developments: the shape of things to come (Nick Childs, IISS)

https://www.iiss.org/en/manama%20voices/blogsections/2016-f0e3/middle-east-maritime-developments-the-shape-of-things-to-come-4273

Adelphi Book Launch: Business and Conflict in Fragile States (IISS)

http://www.iiss.org/en/events/events/archive/2016-a3c2/september-ba5f/business-and-conflict-in-fragile-states---launch-3311

India and Pakistan’s evolving relationships with the Gulf (IISS)

http://www.iiss.org/en/publications/strategic%20comments/sections/2016-e7c1/india-and-pakistan-2dda

Jens Wardenaer: Myanmar: Progress at Panglong despite obstacles (IISS)

https://www.iiss.org/en/iiss%20voices/blogsections/iiss-voices-2016-9143/september-5517/myanmar-panglong-conference-3ba3

Mark Fitzpatrick: No, Iran was not advantaged by clarification of nuclear limits (IISS)

https://www.iiss.org/en/politics%20and%20strategy/blogsections/2016-d1f9/september-a44b/no-iran-was-not-advantaged-4d93

Ben Barry: Women in combat (IISS)

Last week the British Army announced that it would remove all remaining restrictions on the participation of women in ground combat. This follows the 2013 announcement of then-US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta that US forces would in principle lift all restrictions on the employment of women in ground combat units. The US Army, Marine Corps and Special Operations Command (SOCOM) would have to make a special case for continuing to deny any combat roles to women. I assessed the potential implications of this move in the April May 2013 issue of Survival.

https://www.iiss.org/en/politics%20and%20strategy/blogsections/2016-d1f9/july-001c/women-in-combat-3e4a

China’s challenge to US air superiority (Douglas Barrie, IISS)

https://www.iiss.org/en/shangri-la%20voices/blogsections/2016-588c/douglas-barrie-military-airpower-asia-pacific-cbc9

India is kept waiting for admission to Nuclear Suppliers Group (Mark Fitzpatrick, IISS)

https://www.iiss.org/en/politics%20and%20strategy/blogsections/2016-d1f9/june-ccc4/india-is-kept-waiting-for-admission-to-nuclear-suppliers-group-dd84

The significance of a dialogue for defence ministers (Michael Fallon, IISS)

https://www.iiss.org/en/shangri-la%20voices/blogsections/2016-588c/michael-fallon-on-the-significance-of-a-dialogue-for-defence-ministers-5f78

Undersea challenge for NATO takes shape (Ian Keddie, IISS)

https://www.iiss.org/en/militarybalanceblog/blogsections/2016-629e/june-8109/ian-keddie-udt-2016-ced6

Opposing nuclear proliferation, even among allies (Mark Fitzpatrick, IISS)

https://www.iiss.org/en/politics%20and%20strategy/blogsections/2016-d1f9/june-ccc4/opposing-nuclear-proliferation-even-among-allies-5335

Squeezing North Korea’s foreign earnings (IISS)

https://www.iiss.org/en/shangri-la%20voices/blogsections/2016-588c/squeezing-north-koreas-foreign-earnings-4678

The US and Russia in the Asia-Pacific (IISS)

https://www.iiss.org/en/shangri-la%20voices/blogsections/2016-588c/the-us-and-russia-in-the-asia-pacific-e68a

Why China's salami-slicing in South China Sea is bad news (William Choong, IISS)

Earlier this year, a Japanese official came to talk to me about Japan's bid to secure Australia's massive A$50 billion (S$50 billion) contract to build submarines. He touted the advantage of Japan's Soryu class of submarines, and diplomatically sketched out weaknesses in the rival French and German bids. The French and Germans, he said, were "cheating" in trumping up the capabilities of their subs. He lamented the fact that, compared with the French and Germans, Japan was too strait-laced and lacking in creativity when it came to selling subs to Australia

https://www.iiss.org/en/shangri-la%20voices/blogsections/2016-588c/why-chinas-salami-slicing-in-south-china-sea-is-bad-news-bba7

The impact of UUVs on submarine operational doctrine (Ian Keddie, IISS)

The debate over the United Kingdom's maintenance of an independent nuclear deterrent has received renewed attention since Jeremy Corbyn took over as leader of the opposition Labour Party in 2015

https://www.iiss.org/en/militarybalanceblog/blogsections/2016-629e/may-b49c/the-impact-of-uuvs-of-submarine-operational-doctrine-5ec8

China’s Cyber Power (IISS)

As China increasingly gains the economic benefits of global connectivity, the West’s technological edge is fast eroding. In this Adelphi, Nigel Inkster examines the political, historical and cultural development of China’s cyber power in light of evolving capabilities and governance structures

http://www.iiss.org/en/publications/adelphi/by%20year/2016-d199/china--39-s-cyber-power-f1db

Party politics and bad luck are dragging Britain towards Brexit (Matthew Harries, IISS)

David Cameron is a weak prime minister leading a divided government. The peculiar thing about this assertion is that it is true now, and not a year ago, when Cameron was in charge of a two-party coalition government, a rarity in British politics. In May 2015 Cameron won an extraordinary general-election victory, becoming the first full-term incumbent prime minister since 1832 to increase both his party’s share of the vote and its total number of seats in the House of Commons. He returned as prime minister having shed his coalition partners, the Liberal Democrats, who were beaten almost out of political existence. In the following months, Labour proceeded to elect as leader a veteran MP drawn from the party’s hard left, Jeremy Corbyn, who duly appointed as his shadow chancellor a backbench colleague, John McDonnell, who in 2006 had described his greatest intellectual influences as Lenin, Marx and Trotsky. Corbyn told the BBC he would never, under any circumstances, use Britain’s nuclear weapons – thereby breaking the taboo that held, based on Labour’s electoral annihilation in the 1980s, that the party should leave unilateral disarmament well alone – and McDonnell, having declared his plan for the British economy to be ‘socialism with an iPad’, quoted from Mao’s little red book on the floor of the House of Commons. Meanwhile, the rapid rise of the Scottish National Party north of the border had cost Labour more than 50 seats, and with the Conservatives dominant in England, there was a reasonable chance that the Labour Party would never again win an outright parliamentary majority.

https://www.iiss.org/en/politics%20and%20strategy/blogsections/2016-d1f9/april-6904/bad-luck-and-party-politics-979b

The Global Goals – A Roadmap to a Sustainable, Fair and More Peaceful Future (IISS)

In her Fullerton Lecture, Erna Solberg, Prime Minister of Norway and Co-Chair of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals Advocacy Group, spoke about how global efforts towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals will result in a safer, fairer and more sustainable world. She argued that economic growth needs to be more inclusive while also safeguarding the natural environment for generations to come.

http://www.iiss.org/en/events/events/archive/2016-a3c2/april-a3dc/fullerton-lecture-erna-solberg-a3b3