Press Releases
UK's National Security Strategy needs radical change, says independent all-party commission of experts at ippr
Report fills vacuum in thinking on security challenges facing the UK 2 year independent expert review makes wide-ranging policy proposals ...
30 June 2009 -
Government’s New Security Strategy is too complacent, says ippr Security Commission
Thinktank warns proposals on cyber security are too timid and slow, on energy proposals it is too complacent, and it says little about the big issues related to defence....
24 June 2009 -
Truth Commission needed to investigate ‘War on Terror’ torture allegations
Allegations of the use of torture in the ‘war on terror’ must lead to investigations and prosecutions, according to an essay for the latest edition of Public Policy Research (ppr), the quarterly journal of the Institute for Public Policy Resear...
19 June 2009 -
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 t...
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 emerg...
13 February 2008 -
In the news
Warning over UK security priorities
BBC News - 30 June
Government urged to rethink defence
Channel 4 News - 30 June
It is time for hard choices on defence policy
Financial Times - 30 June
The Cold War is over. We must move on, fast
The Times - 30 June
Re-think urged on UK nuclear deterrent
The Independent - 30 June
Strategic thinking about Trident
The Telegraph - 30 June
Defence spending unsustainable, warns think-tank
New Statesman - 30 June
Are we getting ready for the wrong war?
The Observer - Sunday 28 June
Show Britain is on the right side by barring torture, say security experts
The Guardian - 27 June