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reimagining uk leadership in global health the 7 april marks world health day with this year s theme together for health stand with science the united kingdom has long excelled at the latter as a global leader article by mike podmore and molly thompson good governance and institutional reform 07 04 26 op ed how the uk fuels child undernutrition in low and middle income countries by enabling illicit finance this article is co published by the foreign policy centre and bond examining the devastating consequences of the uk s complicity in trade related illicit financial flows new research published by results article by sunit bagree democracy and elections 01 04 26 op ed a symptom and a catalyst orbán ukraine and the institutional remaking of the european security order when hungarians head to the polls on 12th april 2026 there will be more at stake than whether the country s current prime minister viktor orbán wins another term the outcome article by mayank sethi tamzin lily trigg and stefan wolff 25 03 26 op ed standing up to the kremlin lessons from moldova for defeating russian election interference foreign information manipulation and interference fimi has been high on the agenda of liberal democracies for years 1 the european external action service has just published its fourth annual report on article by philip j javens and stefan wolff 16 03 26 op ed ai in authoritarian states why belarus s ai push is a human rights problem and what international actors must do authoritarian governments are racing to adopt artificial intelligence ai while they court international legitimacy by invoking ethics safety and standards the real world context is marked by systematic violations of human article by maria guryeva 12 03 26 five priorities for the uk as it retakes the chair of the media freedom coalition in 2023 professor martin scott examined the early performance of the media freedom coalition in an article for the foreign policy centre reflecting on whether the initiative had achieved the article by martin scott international relations and geopolitics 04 03 26 op ed iran attack shows limits of starmer s trump whispering ever since donald trump returned to office in 2025 keir starmer has had to perform a difficult balancing act on the one hand he has sought to avoid open article by dr andrew gawthorpe ukraine conflict 24 02 26 four years on journalism under drones beyond blackouts four years into russia s full scale invasion of ukraine the war s impact on media and information integrity remains profound in this anniversary reflection sergiy tomilenko president of the national union of article by sergiy tomilenko ukraine conflict 24 02 26 four years on europe s strategic test in ukraine four years into russia s full scale invasion of ukraine the conflict remains unresolved and the strategic landscape increasingly complex in this analysis stefan wolff fpc s senior research fellow examines the evolving article by prof stefan wolff international 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