📝 NEW | We're delighted to publish a new report edited by Prof Alessio Patalano and Dr Oliver Yule-Smith.
Featuring, among others, contributions from @jamescrabtree.bsky.social @mtdtl.bsky.social @ktristantang.bsky.social @joristeer.bsky.social & @shinji0818.bsky.social.
csns.uk/2026/04/21/s...
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Join us this Thursday for a book talk with Dr James D. Boys: 'US Grand Strategy and the Madman Theory: From Nixon to Trump'.
📅 Thu 23 Apr, 17:00-18:15
📍 King's College London
"The Iranians have imagined this kind of fight for many years. I would be highly surprised if they did not have any aces up their sleeves," Prof Alessio Patalano told @theipaper.com.
📝 "If we are to have genuine future security, we must be able to deploy hard power, alongside strong allies to safeguard our interests in a range of domains."
Read Prof John Bew's latest for @thespectator1828.bsky.social 👇
📚 How have the PMU and their affiliates sought to establish themselves as legitimate actors within the highly fragmented Iraqi state?
Join us in a few weeks for a book talk with Dr Inna Rudolf.
📅 Wed 6 May, 18:00–19:00
📍 King's College London
📝 NEW | Russia is remaking the demographic structure of cities such as Mariupol, with implications that extend far beyond the current phase of the war.
Read Dr Jade McGlynn's latest for @engelsbergideas.bsky.social
🗣️ Prof John Bew participated in a panel on ‘Strengthening the Northern alliance’ and later moderated ‘Getting ready – lessons from history’, which examined how a failure to engage with historical precedent has weakened Western readiness.
⏰ Last chance to register for this upcoming event! ⏰
Join us next Wednesday as @jasonburke2.bsky.social launches his new book, 'The Revolutionists: The Story of the Extremists Who Hijacked the 1970s'.
📅 Wed 22 Apr, 18:00-19:00
📍 King's College London
🗓️ We are thrilled to announce our Sixth Annual @gnetresearch.bsky.social Conference on 27 May!
Our theme this year: 'Threats in Focus: Re-Examining Terrorism and Violent Extremism at the Tech Frontier.'
Participants may join in person or virtually.
Find more information and register below 👇
Attended an amazing @csns-uk.bsky.social event at @warstudieskcl.bsky.social “Permanent Emergency: States of Exception and Democratic Erosion”.
🚨 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS 🚨
We are delighted to be awarding the Sweetbaum Essay Prize for Future Leaders in partnership with the London Defence Conference. Applications are open to all current MA students enrolled at a UK university.
💸 £1,000
⏳ Sun 19 Apr, 18:00
➡ www.linkedin.com/posts/london...
✍️ "There is a real danger that Britain is not prepared for the new world that is emerging before us, because it is too attached to a noble, nostalgic but partial and therefore misleading version of the past."
By Prof John Bew and Prof Guglielmo Verdirame
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/03...
📝 NEW COMMENTARY | One Thousand and One Interviews: Lessons from Qualitative Research in the Middle East
Dr Rajan Basra explores the challenges of gathering empirical data in high-fear, high-trauma settings across Iraq and Lebanon.
Produced as part of the XCEPT research programme.
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Join us next Wednesday for a discussion on exceptional measures, featuring Jim Petrila, Edward Bogan, Dr Sam Mace and Dr Jade McGlynn.
📅 Wed 8 Apr, 17:30–19:00
📍 King's College London
csns.uk/event/perman...
📝 NEW | A State-Engineered Architecture of Persecution: Russia’s Systematic Campaign Against Ukrainian Civilians in Occupied Territories
Read Dr Jade McGlynn's latest Insight for the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies ⬇️ www.forsvaret.no/en/research/...
📝 NEW POLICY BRIEF | Why do some individuals turn to violent protest while others remain peaceful?
Read Nils Mallock's new piece for the XCEPT research programme.
🔗 bit.ly/4sGBMvW
🧑⚖️ Exceptional measures are increasingly shaping democratic practice across the globe.
Join us in two weeks for a timely discussion with Jim Petrila, Edward Bogan, Dr Sam Mace and Dr Jade McGlynn.
📅 Wed 8 Apr, 17:30–19:00
📍 King's College London
🎟️ csns.uk/event/perman...
📝 NEW POLICY BRIEF | A Farewell to Arms? Challenges and Preconditions for Hezbollah’s Demilitarisation
Read Inna Rudolf's brief on why sustainable demilitarisation must be a social contract rather than a technical fix.
🔗 bit.ly/4bCI9dH
Produced as part of the XCEPT research programme.
I was privileged to co-organise, with @csns-uk.bsky.social, a closed-door high-level strategic discussion with General Zaluzhnyi at King’s College London ahead of the London Defence Conference.
🎙️ NEW | Prof John Bew joined Tim Shipman on the @thespectator1828.bsky.social podcast last week, setting out his hypothesis that we are currently living in the ‘fourth great disruption’ to the political and economic order.
Give it a listen below 👇
spectator.com/podcast/brit...
Last night we had the pleasure of hosting Ambassador Valerii Zaluzhnyi for a closed-door event ahead of the London Defence Conference. He shared remarks about the need to revise our security system in a world where the old rules no longer apply.
Read his full speech here: csns.uk/2026/03/26/a...
🚢 "The capabilities depth among countries is simply not where it was in the 1980s. Fleets and their support structure are a fraction of those of four decades ago," Prof Alessio Patalano told @cnn.com.
edition.cnn.com/2026/03/16/m...
"If there is an Iranian involvement, it would aim to have the psychological effect of dissuading the Europeans from intervening in the war," said Dr Inna Rudolf.
www.thenationalnews.com/news/europe/...
🏆 We're delighted to announce that the CSNS-MEI initiative relating to ISIS-linked detainees in Syria was recently recognised for a @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social impact award, jointly presented to Dr Shiraz Maher, Johanna Inness, and Charles Lister.
Learn more here:
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/sspp-re...
🎙️ NEW | ICYMI: Dr Jade McGlynn featured on @telegraph.co.uk's 'Ukraine: The Latest' podcast last week, where she provided her regular update on resistance activity in the Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine.
⬇️ Give it a watch/listen below! www.youtube.com/watch?v=zc_w...
📝 NEW | President Trump's siege of the Islamic Republic may ultimately weaken the Iranian regime's influence abroad while strengthening its hand at home.
Read Dr Shiraz Maher's latest for @engelsbergideas.bsky.social: engelsbergideas.com/essays/ameri...
🚔 In the book “Homegrown: ISIS in America,” terrorism researcher Dr Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens devoted an entire section to Jalloh’s 2016 case. When news of the attack broke, he said he was stunned. "As far as I knew, Jalloh was still in jail," he told @cnn.com.
edition.cnn.com/2026/03/15/u...
🎙️ NEW | Dr Shiraz Maher featured on the @engelsbergideas.bsky.social podcast with @jackfdickens.bsky.social last week. In this episode, he examines how the fallout from the US-Iran conflict is reshaping the Gulf States and the wider Middle East.
➡️ Listen here: engelsbergideas.com/podcast/ei-t...
📝 NEW | "We are in the midst of a series of structural and ideological changes, at home and abroad, that are incomparable in their scale to anything we have seen in almost 80 years," writes Prof John Bew in a new piece for @newstatesman1913.bsky.social.
www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2026/0...
📝 Written by Alexandra Vázquez Botana and Sam Hibbs, the Policy Brief highlights policy recommendations to promote reconciliation between antagonistic groups, drawing on a critical literature review which explores a selection of psychosocial factors. 3/3
🔗 csns.uk/2026/03/10/p...