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  • ORG Explains #11: The UK Military in the Eastern Mediterranean

    ORG Explains #11: The UK Military in the Eastern Mediterranean

    This primer explains what presence, relations and obligations the UK military has in the Eastern Mediterranean region, including Cyprus, Egypt, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, the Palestinian Territories, Syria and Turkey. Read more

  • ORG Explains #10: The UK’s Joint Expeditionary Force

    ORG Explains #10: The UK’s Joint Expeditionary Force

    This primer describes the new UK-led Joint Expeditionary Force (JEF), situating it in the context of other European rapid reaction forces and the UK and NATO’s expanded military presence in the Baltic Sea region. Read more

  • ORG Explains #7: The UK Military in the Arctic

    ORG Explains #7: The UK Military in the Arctic

    This primer explains what military presence, relations and obligations the UK has in the “High North” region comprising the Arctic and the adjacent Northeast Atlantic Ocean between Scotland, Iceland, Greenland and Norway. Read more

  • ORG Explains #5: NATO Nuclear Sharing

    ORG Explains #5: NATO Nuclear Sharing

    This primer explains the role US-owned B61 tactical nuclear weapons play in Europe as part of NATO’s nuclear sharing arrangements. It considers these weapons in terms of their economic, political, diplomatic and security significance, including internal NATO dynamics, US-Russia relations and international arms control, non-proliferation and disarmament regimes. Read more

  • ORG Explains #11: The UK Military in the Eastern Mediterranean
  • ORG Explains #10: The UK’s Joint Expeditionary Force
  • ORG Explains #7: The UK Military in the Arctic
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ORG Explains #11: The UK Military in the Eastern Mediterranean

ORG Explains #11: The UK Military in the Eastern Mediterranean

This primer explains what presence, relations and obligations the UK military has in the Eastern Mediterranean region, including Cyprus, Egypt, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, the Palestinian Territories, Syria and Turkey. Read more

Published: 12th September, 2019

Updated: 18th September, 2019

Author: Alasdair McKay

Related topics:
  • ORG Explains
  • Sustainable Security Programme
  • Operations
  • Middle East
  • Migration
  • Europe and NATO
ORG Explains #10: The UK’s Joint Expeditionary Force

ORG Explains #10: The UK’s Joint Expeditionary Force

This primer describes the new UK-led Joint Expeditionary Force (JEF), situating it in the context of other European rapid reaction forces and the UK and NATO’s expanded military presence in the Baltic Sea region. Read more

Published: 6th June, 2019

Updated: 18th September, 2019

Author: Alasdair McKay

Related topics:
  • ORG Explains
  • Sustainable Security Programme
  • Operations
  • Europe and NATO
ORG Explains #7: The UK Military in the Arctic

ORG Explains #7: The UK Military in the Arctic

This primer explains what military presence, relations and obligations the UK has in the “High North” region comprising the Arctic and the adjacent Northeast Atlantic Ocean between Scotland, Iceland, Greenland and Norway. Read more

Published: 31st October, 2018

Updated: 19th June, 2019

Author: Alasdair McKay

Related topics:
  • ORG Explains
  • Sustainable Security Programme
  • Europe and NATO
ORG Explains #5: NATO Nuclear Sharing

ORG Explains #5: NATO Nuclear Sharing

This primer explains the role US-owned B61 tactical nuclear weapons play in Europe as part of NATO’s nuclear sharing arrangements. It considers these weapons in terms of their economic, political, diplomatic and security significance, including internal NATO dynamics, US-Russia relations and international arms control, non-proliferation and disarmament regimes. Read more

Published: 27th June, 2018

Updated: 19th June, 2019

Author: Alasdair McKay

Related topics:
  • ORG Explains
  • Sustainable Security Programme
  • Europe and NATO
  • Nuclear weapons
European Military Integration: Implications for the UK

European Military Integration: Implications for the UK

European military integration will, if successful, pose even larger questions about the UK’s roler of “Global Britain’s” resurgent interest in supporting the US in the Asia-Pacific region. Read more

Published: 29th November, 2017

Updated: 16th January, 2019

Author: Alasdair McKay

Related topics:
  • Europe and NATO
Global Britain: A Pacific Presence?

Global Britain: A Pacific Presence?

Several developments over the last month suggest that the UK is moving to establish its strongest military presence in the Western Pacific since its 1971 withdrawal of forces from Singapore. Drivers include the quest for post-Brexit trade and arms supply deals, the imperative to use the Royal Navy’s new aircraft carriers to promote a strong Global Britain brand, and a growing alignment with US regional objectives and alliances. Read more

Published: 27th September, 2017

Updated: 9th December, 2019

Author: Alasdair McKay

Related topics:
  • Asia
  • Sustainable Security Programme
  • Europe and NATO
Towards a New Consensus on National Security

Towards a New Consensus on National Security

As the UK commences negotiations on leaving the EU, juggles challenges to its own union, confronts a new wave of DIY terrorist attacks, and launches Europe’s largest ever warship, the need for a “strategic” National Security Strategy has never been greater. Read more

Published: 29th June, 2017

Updated: 1st June, 2018

Author: Alasdair McKay

Related topics:
  • Policy and Doctrine
  • Sustainable Security Programme
  • Europe and NATO
The UK, Russia and NATO Revisited

The UK, Russia and NATO Revisited

From Theresa May’s hand-holding with Donald Trump to the pointed demands of US President, Vice-President and Defense Secretary that European states pay their share of NATO’s costs, via Turkish-Russian rapprochement and a seemingly endless series of scandals linking incoming US officials to Russian influencers, turbulence in trans-Atlantic relations looks set to be the defining security issue of 2017. Read more

Published: 2nd March, 2017

Updated: 27th October, 2020

Author: Alasdair McKay

Related topics:
  • Sustainable Security Programme
  • Europe and NATO
Taking Back Control? The UK, Europe and NATO

Taking Back Control? The UK, Europe and NATO

The briefing argues that Britain’s future international policy should correspond both with the interests and values of the majority and be based on principles such as democracy, human rights and social justice. Read more

Published: 30th September, 2016

Updated: 13th June, 2018

Author: Alasdair McKay

Related topics:
  • Sustainable Security Programme
  • Europe and NATO
Brexit: Whither UK Defence and Foreign Policy?

Brexit: Whither UK Defence and Foreign Policy?

This briefing considers what the Leave vote and ensuing changes to the British government might mean in the short, medium and long term for the UK’s defence and foreign policy, including decision-making and accountability mechanisms, and the still-urgent need to build sustainable security. Read more

Published: 15th July, 2016

Updated: 26th June, 2018

Author: Alasdair McKay

Related topics:
  • Sustainable Security Programme
  • Europe and NATO
ORG, Russia and NATO

ORG, Russia and NATO

Since the onset of the conflict in Ukraine in 2014, Oxford Research Group has worked to understand what drives the greatest tensions in European security for a generation, not least Russia’s own perception of its place and interests in Europe and the wider world. Read more

Published: 24th June, 2016

Updated: 6th June, 2018

Author: Alasdair McKay

Related topics:
  • Policy and Doctrine
  • Europe and NATO
We Need to Talk About NATO

We Need to Talk About NATO

This briefing poses some questions about the UK’s existing security alignments, particularly the role of NATO, and considers how these might be brought back into public discourse in the context of intra-Labour Party and national policy debates during the current parliament. It finds that the character of NATO and European-US relations is already in flux and a more public discussion of the alliance is overdue. Read more

Published: 17th September, 2015

Updated: 24th July, 2019

Author: Alasdair McKay

Related topics:
  • Sustainable Security Programme
  • Europe and NATO
Libya’s Proxy Battlefield

Libya’s Proxy Battlefield

Less than four years since NATO-led military intervention helped to unseat the 42-year Gaddafi dictatorship Libya is a failing state on the borders of Europe. Read more

Published: 13th January, 2015

Updated: 9th December, 2019

Author: Alasdair McKay

Related topics:
  • Sustainable Security Programme
  • Africa
  • Europe and NATO

Britain's National Security Strategy - One Year On

The UK National Security Strategy (NSS) was published in March last year, and an initial assessment formed the basis for the ORG International Security Briefing for that month (Britain’s Security – A New Approach?). The Strategy was presented as an entirely new development in Britain’s approach to international security. Read more

Published: 1st March, 2009

Author: Alasdair McKay

Related topics:
  • Paul Rogers' Briefings
  • Europe and NATO
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    Security in the DRC and Yemen: Military Conflict, Disease Outbreak and Containment

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    Mistrust, Misinformation and Community Engagement: Reflections on lessons from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Yemen

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    Background Briefing - Military Conflict, Disease Outbreak and Containment: A Comparative Study of Yemen and DRC

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