Press Releases
Obama Victory an Opportunity for Britain to Shift Gear on National Security Policy
The UK should seize on Barack Obama’s election victory to change key elements of its national security policy, the Commission on National Security says today....
27 November 2008 -
ippr hosts a series of high-level security lectures
Running alongside the Security Commission’s work, ippr is hosting a series of high-level security lectures from key policymakers. The events are intended to be major policy statements and, as such, significant contributions to public debate in thei...
02 October 2008 -
Former NATO head calls for greater European military cooperation
Lord George Robertson, former Secretary General of NATO and former Secretary of State for Defence, said yesterday (Wednesday11 June) that the European Union’s role in defence should be strengthened....
12 June 2008 -
Key Obama advisor says world needs to prepare for biological terrorism and global pandemics
Senator Tom Daschle, a close personal adviser to Barack Obama, warns that the world is woefully unprepared for biological terrorism and the global spread of infectious fatal diseases in a report for the Institute for Public Policy Research (ippr) pub...
05 June 2008 -
National security not just about terrorism
Threats to Britain’s national security do not only come from the possibility of a terrorist attack, according to a new report published today (Wednesday) by the Institute for Public Policy Research (ippr). ippr argues that new frontlines are emergin...
13 February 2008 -