Publications on Foreign Policy & Security
Jun
2009
Tuesday 23rd June, 2009
Charles Farr's response to Policy Exchange publication
Charles Farr, Director General of the Office for Security and Counter Terrorism responds to Policy Exchange's Publication "Choosing our friends wisely: Criteria for engagement with Muslim Groups", by Shiraz Maher & Martyn Frampton.
Download a PDF of Charles Farr's response.
Download a PDF of the original report.
Mar
2009
Sunday 8th March, 2009
Choosing our friends wisely: Criteria for engagement with Muslim groups
By Shiraz Maher & Martyn Frampton.
Choosing our friends wisely: Criteria for engagement with Muslim groups is an authoritative analysis of Preventing Violent Extremism (PVE), the £90 million centrepiece of the government’s effort to stop the radicalisation of young Muslims.
The authors set out how the sound principles and good intentions of PVE have been compromised by muddled thinking as to the appropriate criteria for selecting Muslim groups as partners and by lax implementation at local level.
Jun
2007
Friday 1st June, 2007
Learning from experience: Counter Terrorism in the UK since 9/11
By Peter Clarke.
This is the published version of the inaugural Colin Cramphorn Memorial Lecture, hosted by Policy Exchange, given by Peter Clarke, the Head of the Metropolitan Police Counter Terrorism Command.
The lecture focused on the issues of national security and the fight against terrorism since 9/11.
Jan
2007
Monday 29th January, 2007
Living apart together British Muslims and the paradox of multiculturalism
By Munira Mirza, Abi Senthilkumaran & Zein Ja'far
Policy Exchange has released Living Apart Together: British Muslims and the paradox of multiculturalism, a major new survey of the attitudes of Muslims in Britain and the reasons behind the rapid rise in Islamic fundamentalism amongst the younger generation. The research finds that there is a growing religiosity amongst the younger generation of Muslims and that they feel that they have less in common with non-Muslims than do their parents. Significantly, they exhibit a much stronger preference for Islamic schools and sharia law and place a greater stress on asserting their identity publicly, for example, by wearing the hijab.
Dec
2006
Wednesday 6th December, 2006
Confessions of a Hawkish Hack: The Media and the War on Terror
By Matthew d'Ancona.
Much of the discourse on the war on terror has sacrificed historical perspective for an often partisan focus on the day-by-day flow of events. Confessions of a hawkish hack: the media and the war on terror is Matthew D’Ancona’s critique of such short-termism. In it, he outlines his own interpretation of the attacks of 9/11 and the media’s coverage of events since then.
Above all, he urges the West to show greater patience and stamina in a conflict that is likely to last for decades and may never have a clear end point.
Jul
2006
Saturday 1st July, 2006
When Progressives Treat with Reactionaries: The British State's flirtation with radical Islamism
By Martin Bright.
Martin Bright's unique run of classified 'scoops' on the British State's policy of accommodating Islamist reactionaries at home and abroad has set all kinds of dovecotes a-flutter in Whitehall. Now, courtesy of Policy Exchange, Bright has brought them all together in one accessible pamphlet - as well as some hitherto unpublished material which the Government would rather we never had seen.
Mar
2005
Thursday 10th March, 2005
Taming Terrorism, It's Been Done Before
Edited by Anna Reid.
Forward by Charles Guthrie.
The second in a series of Policy Exchange publications that draw from past experience in analysing how best to tackle foreign policy challenges today. The first, Regime Change, looked at state-building efforts abroad; Taming Terrorism does the same with terrorist movements, from the Boxer rebels to Japan's Aum Shinrikyo cult.
Case studies by five distinguished academics come to some expected and unexpected conclusions: that security agencies must learn to look forwards rather than back; that the countries most likely to under-fund their security agencies are those with a history of militarism; that tough anti-terrorism legislation is hard to sustain; and that economic growth often does more than political reform to tackle terrorism's root causes. Military occupation of terrorist-producing territories only succeeds if armies are held accountable for their actions, and political wrangling and bureaucratic bungles can allow even a tiny, unpopular group to survive for decades.
Taming Terrorism reminds us that despite al-Qaeda's global reach and use of modern technology, today's global struggle is not unprecedented. We have beaten similar groups before and can do so again.
Jan
2004
Thursday 15th January, 2004
Lion Cubs? Lessons from Africa's Success Stories
Edited by Anna Reid.
Introduced by David Cowan.
While prophesies of an 'African Renaissance' were over-optimistic, out of the headlines some African countries have been doing relatively well. Lion Cubs brings together an international group of contributors in four case studies. Botswana demonstrates how Africans should manage natural resources; Tanzania the difficulty of moving to privatisation and de-regulation; Rwanda and Mozambique the importance of broad-based, inclusive government for successful conflict resolution.
May
2003
Thursday 15th May, 2003
Regime Change - It's Been Done Before
Edited by Roger Gough.
Forward by Lord Douglas Hurd.
With the need to rebuild Iraq clearer and more urgent than ever, an international group of contributors commissioned by Policy Exchange examine case studies ranging from post WWII Germany and Japan to the current situation in Afghanistan.
And as former Foreign Secretary Lord Douglas Hurd points out in his foreword, Iraq may be the latest case of regime change, but it is unlikely to be the last.
