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foreign policy

November 20, 2019

War and the imagining of alternatives: some questions for politicians

Remembrance-tide is over.
February 23, 2019

UNA-UK launches report on 'Global Britain' in the United Nations

The UK will find it difficult to maintain its current level of influence at the UN once it has exited the EU, says report.
September 17, 2018

Call for Jeremy Hunt to show human rights leadership on Myanmar visit

Amnesty International says failure to show a commitment to human rights will set a dangerous precedent for the UK’s future foreign policy.
October 27, 2017

Call to make freedom of religion a foreign policy priority

Parliamentary Group calls for freedom of religion and belief to be made a political priority for the Foreign Secretary and a strategic priority for both the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Department for International Development.
September 25, 2017

Emily Thornberry 'right to criticise' UK Gulf support

The Shadow Foreign Secretary has used her speech to Labour's annual conference to call for a “revolution of values” in UK foreign policy, including an overhaul of the way security assistance is provided to countries such as Saudi Arabia and Bahrain.
June 15, 2017

Shakeup at Foreign Office 'opportunity to reset priorities abroad'

Theresa May’s decision to shake up the ministerial team at the Foreign Office is an opportunity to reset the UK’s priorities abroad, says the human rights organistion Reprieve.
May 31, 2017

UK foreign policy: truth and defamation

We are all familiar with spin, with the attempt to conceal facts or to massage figures.
August 30, 2013

UK parliament rejects vigilante violence against Syria

The UK parliament has prudently rejected Prime Minister David Cameron’s call to join in military action in Syria which would almost certainly have been unlawful. While tough measures are needed, vigilante ‘justice’ contrary to international law could have catastrophic consequences. A US attack is still likely.
March 2, 2008

Worrying about 'moral' foreign policy

Talk of 'moral' foreign policy has led to 'liberal interventionism', notes Giles Fraser. And along that path of good intention has lain disaster, as with some 'just war' thinking.
October 3, 2006

Reject the warrior God-on-our-side, say US church leaders

Two senior United States church leaders have sent out a clear message to the White House and the religious right that God cannot be co-opted as a ‚Äòwarrior divinity‚Äô serving national or sectional i