Explainers
Power lies at the very heart of international politics. Power is typically defined as ‘the ability of X to make Y do something they would not otherwise do’. Power dictates how nations interact, how easy it is to resolve disputes, and how they operate within the global order. As international
The Perspective
More than ever now, in 2026, Formula 1 is walking a fine line between its genuine ESG commitments - including gender diversity - and its lucrative corporate alignment with authoritarian state capitals. On the one hand, the sport actively promotes gender diversity as a core corporate value. Meanwhile the sport simultaneously accepts
The Forum
On the 2nd September 2020, under the Johnson Government, the merger of the Department for International Development (DFID) and the Foreign Commonwealth Office (FCO) was taken into effect and became the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO). The Government claimed that this merger would be a new opportunity for the
Ideas Lab
Currently, the UK is on the edge of one of the biggest democratic shifts in the UK since the 1969 Representation of the People Act. The government is now pushing forward the Representation of the People Bill to lower the national voting age to 16. For many years the idea