Honoured to be included on a list of the 10 most influential figures who have shaped the European Union.

Thank you for the recognition, Capital.

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There are bound to be Ukrainians who will together cry out-loud one of the favourite slogans shouted in the Middle East:

‘Double Standards’!

Following the latest military exchanges in the Middle East, it appears that:

Iran has emerged weakened before its various ‘proxies’ who appear more effective, while Mr Netanyahu has come out strengthened in front of allies who were in the process of distancing themselves from…

#Raisina2024 | #WestAsia 's shifting sands

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Raisina Dialogue

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Ukraine is lawfully exercising its UN Article 51 right of self-defence, and the European security order is a core interest of the West. It is strategically illiterate to think or argue differently.

Thus, there should be no conventional arms control, or ‘end-user’ restrictions,…

Quite pleased with a PB of 10,883 metres in 45 minutes on the WaterRower.

That said, only 117 metres short of 11,000.

Had I not flagged a bit in the last 30 seconds I could have nailed that.

A reminder that the last percent of any effort is often the most vital. 😅

Great meeting in Seoul today with Chang Ho-Jin, National Security adviser to President Yoon Suk Yeol, during which we discussed plans for the 20th anniversary IISS Manama Dialogue in #Bahrain 6-8 December 2024 and our work to establish this year a Korea Chair ⁦IISS News⁩

Splendid meeting today with Cho Tae-yuk, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea during which we discussed US-RoK-Japan trilateral relations, RoK interests in the Gulf and wider Middle East, the Russia-Ukraine war, DPRK, and plans for a Korea Chair ⁦IISS News⁩

Delighted to have met today HE Shin Wonsik the defence minister of the Republic of Korea with whom I had a detailed conversation about Asian security issues. All of us ⁦IISS News⁩ are pleased that he has confirmed his participation in the Shangri-La Dialogue 31-May-2 June.

Great meeting in Seoul with Vice Foreign Minister Kang Insun who as a Chosun Ilbo journalist interviewed me 15 years ago. We discussed Korea’s relations with the GCC states and the vital facts/analysis that ⁦IISS News⁩ continues to generate on Korea’s security environment.

It was a great delight for me to catch up this evening with HE Park Jin, recently foreign minister of Korea, while he was out on the campaign trail to win for his party a challenging seat in the National Assembly elections.

All of us ⁦IISS News⁩ are proud to have been selected as recipients of this very generous donation. It will greatly strengthen our ability to generate influential work on arms control, our most long-standing ‘strategic studies’ tradition at The IISS iiss.org/press/2024/02/…

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Putting Russian state assets into an escrow account and invoking the legal principle of state counter-measures would allow states in control of that escrow account to use that money to help Russia fulfil its legal obligations to compensate Ukraine and its people for the damage…

The government must still account to parliament and the PM can answer questions on foreign policy. It has become an anachronism that a cabinet member whose responsibility is international affairs must be in the UK on a Wednesday…And Cameron was tested quite intensely recently by…

Skipping #MSC2024 having attended, I think, 30 in a row. Advancing IISS News cause in India.

But it appears still the case that bold policy announcements are not made in Munich. While US aid to Kyiv is stuck in the House of Representatives, Europe could agree to buy ammunition…

Intriguing ‘gender balance’ in this bilateral at #MSC2024

There is no case against this. By deploying these funds to Ukraine Western countries would simply be helping Russia to comply with its legal obligation to compensate Ukraine for the losses it has suffered as a direct consequence of its illegal invasion.

Today would be a good day to seize $300 billion in Russian assets and give it to Ukraine.

This is, actually, genius.