About IPPR
Ian Kearns
Ian Kearns
Deputy Chair of ippr's Security Commission
+44 (0)20 7470 6178
i.kearns@ippr.org
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Teams
Global Change
Areas of Expertise
Ian is the Deputy Chair of the independent Commission on National Security in the 21st Century. He has over 20 years of experience working on foreign and security policy and has been published on a wide range of issues including Britain's 'special relationship with the US', nuclear non-proliferation, the enlargement of the European Union, conflict in former Yugoslavia, and the security situation in Northern Ireland. He is former Director of the Graduate Programme in International Studies at the University of Sheffield and is a regular media commentator. Recent appearances include the Today Programme, The Politics Show, Sky News, Channel 4 News, and BBC World Television.
Other publications
- The New Front Line: Security in a changing world (ippr, 2008)
- Independent Commission on National Security (Défense Nationale et Securite, 2007)
- New thinking on nukes (Prospect, 2007)
- Progressive Foreign Policy (ippr, 2007)
- Politics for a New Generation (ippr, 2007)

Capable Communities
Public Service Reform: The next chapter
In this paper we turn our attention to the role citizens and communities can play in directly producing services, setting out the challenges that lie ahead, and identifying the questions our research will seek to answer over the coming months.
The English Question
ippr surveys MPs

ippr has conducted a survey of MPs to find out if they think that England is losing out as a result of these changes, as many people have claimed.
You Can’t Put Me In A Box
Super-diversity and the end of identity politics in Britain

This paper attempts to map out just how diverse Britain is, both in terms of who lives in Britain and how they identify themselves.