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  • ORG Explains #14: The UK’s Special Forces

    ORG Explains #14: The UK’s Special Forces

    This explainer will focus specifically on the UK’s special forces examining what we do know about them, what they do, their history, what they cost, and the UK’s policies towards them.. Read more

  • ORG Explains #13: UK Defence Reviews

    ORG Explains #13: UK Defence Reviews

    This Explainer will explore what the Integrated Review is, why it is being done and what it might contain. Read more

  • ORG Explains #12: The UK’s Pivot to the Sahel

    ORG Explains #12: The UK’s Pivot to the Sahel

    As the UK moves resources and personnel to the Africa’s Sahel region, we examine what the “pivot to the Sahel” is, why it is happening and what it will look like. Read more

  • 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 #14: The UK’s Special Forces
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  • ORG Explains #12: The UK’s Pivot to the Sahel
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ORG Explains #14: The UK’s Special Forces

ORG Explains #14: The UK’s Special Forces

This explainer will focus specifically on the UK’s special forces examining what we do know about them, what they do, their history, what they cost, and the UK’s policies towards them.. Read more

Published: 11th May, 2020

Updated: 2nd October, 2020

Author: Alasdair McKay

Related topics:
  • The Remote Warfare Programme
  • ORG Explains
ORG Explains #13: UK Defence Reviews

ORG Explains #13: UK Defence Reviews

This Explainer will explore what the Integrated Review is, why it is being done and what it might contain. Read more

Published: 27th March, 2020

Updated: 9th July, 2020

Author: Alasdair McKay

Related topics:
  • The Remote Warfare Programme
  • ORG Explains
  • Integrated Review
ORG Explains #12: The UK’s Pivot to the Sahel

ORG Explains #12: The UK’s Pivot to the Sahel

As the UK moves resources and personnel to the Africa’s Sahel region, we examine what the “pivot to the Sahel” is, why it is happening and what it will look like. Read more

Published: 24th January, 2020

Updated: 7th February, 2020

Author: Alasdair McKay

Related topics:
  • The Remote Warfare Programme
  • ORG Explains
  • Operations
  • Africa
  • Sahel - Sahara
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

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  • ORG Explains
  • Sustainable Security Programme
  • Operations
  • Europe and NATO
ORG Explains #9: The Responsibility to Protect

ORG Explains #9: The Responsibility to Protect

This primer explains the Responsibility to Protect concept, including its origins, applications and critiques. Read more

Published: 12th April, 2019

Updated: 19th July, 2019

Author: Alasdair McKay

Related topics:
  • ORG Explains
  • Sustainable Security Programme
  • Peacekeeping
ORG Explains #8: UK Food Security and Climate Change

ORG Explains #8: UK Food Security and Climate Change

This primer explains the current situation concerning the United Kingdom’s food supply and how this is likely to change in the medium and long term as a result of climate change. Read more

Published: 18th December, 2018

Updated: 19th July, 2019

Author: Alasdair McKay

Related topics:
  • ORG Explains
  • Sustainable Security Programme
  • Climate and environment
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 #6: UK-US Defence and Security Relations

ORG Explains #6: UK-US Defence and Security Relations

This primer explains the legal and institutional basis of current defence and security relations between the United Kingdom and the United States, including cooperation on nuclear weapons, intelligence-sharing, conventional forces and weapons development and procurement. Read more

Published: 1st August, 2018

Updated: 18th June, 2019

Author: Alasdair McKay

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  • ORG Explains
  • Sustainable Security Programme
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
ORG Explains #4: The UK and UN Peacekeeping

ORG Explains #4: The UK and UN Peacekeeping

This primer explains the United Kingdom’s human, financial and other commitments to UN Peacekeeping operations, how these compare to other states, and how they have changed over time. Read more

Published: 31st May, 2018

Updated: 18th June, 2019

Author: Alasdair McKay

Related topics:
  • Peacekeeping
  • ORG Explains
  • Sustainable Security Programme
  • Peacekeeping
ORG Explains #3: UK Energy Security and Climate Change

ORG Explains #3: UK Energy Security and Climate Change

This primer explains the UK’s current energy mix, with a focus on how import dependency might affect energy security in the context of rising geopolitical tensions and a changing climate. Read more

Published: 30th April, 2018

Updated: 18th June, 2019

Author: Alasdair McKay

Related topics:
  • ORG Explains
  • Sustainable Security Programme
  • Climate and environment
ORG Explains #2: The UK Military in the Arabian Peninsula

ORG Explains #2: The UK Military in the Arabian Peninsula

This primer explains what presence, relations and obligations the UK military has in the Arabian Peninsula, including the six monarchies of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and Yemen, as well as the international waters of the Persian Gulf, Arabian Sea, Gulf of Aden and Red Sea. Read more

Published: 28th March, 2018

Updated: 31st July, 2019

Author:

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  • ORG Explains
  • Sustainable Security Programme
  • Middle East
ORG Explains #1: The UK Military in the Asia-Pacific

ORG Explains #1: The UK Military in the Asia-Pacific

This primer explains what presence, relations and obligations the UK military has in Asia-Pacific, defined here as the largely maritime region between Hawaii, New Zealand and the Asian mainland. Read more

Published: 28th February, 2018

Updated: 18th June, 2019

Author: Alasdair McKay

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  • Asia
  • ORG Explains
  • Sustainable Security Programme
  • Operations
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    Security in the DRC and Yemen: Military Conflict, Disease Outbreak and Containment

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    Women’s Experiences of Disease Outbreaks in Conflict: Reflections on lessons from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Yemen

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    This is the first briefing in a series released by the Oxford Research Group’s (ORG) Strategic Peacebuilding Programme. These briefings examine the lessons that can be drawn from the response to Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and how they can be applied in the response to COVID-19 in Yemen.

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