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While we have particular views on many issues on the Global Agenda, and have commissioned and will continue to promote research into questions affecting these, we are also conscious of the valuable work being done by many other institutions and researchers, some of whom have decades of experience in grappling with aspects of these challenging topics.

In this section of the site – Other Voices – by far the largest of all, we offer a wide cross-section of views and insights.

Conflict Prevention under Pressure

Posted Apr 09, 2025| by Chatham House

With governments around the world seeking to reduce their foreign aid budgets, and at a time of increasing global crises, those involved in conflict prevention are having to do more with less. A lack of resources will necessitate strict strategic decisions about which interventions to... Read More

How the Pentagon is Adapting to China’s Technological Rise

Posted on Apr 10, 2025 | in category: Addressing vulnerability and promoting security | by MIT Technology Review

In this conversation with MIT Technology Review, Kathleen Hicks, the former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense, reflects on how the Pentagon is seeking to adapt to a new era of geopolitical competition. She discusses China’s technological rise, the future of AI in warfare, and her... Read More

Confronting Arctic Security - Let’s Stop Chasing Spectres at the South Pole!

Posted on Apr 03, 2025 | in category: Addressing vulnerability and promoting security | by Priv Spotlight

All ‘measures of a military nature’- other than logistic and technical support for scientific endeavours - are prohibited by the Antarctic Treaty, which remains widely observed some 66 years after it was negotiated in 1959. However, conversations about ‘Antarctic security’ appear to be increasing in... Read More

The Rise of Elon Musk's DOGE under Trump

Posted on Apr 07, 2025 | in category: Addressing vulnerability and promoting security | by GZERO World

Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has rapidly reshaped the federal government, firing thousands of workers, slashing spending, and shutting entire agencies. In this GZERO World article, Ian Bremme ad Katie Drummond discuss President Trump’s increasingly symbiotic relationship with the tech billionaire Musk his... Read More

The Resilience of the European Union and NATO in an Era of Multiple Crises

Posted on Apr 02, 2025 | in category: Addressing vulnerability and promoting security | by Center for Eastern Studies, Warsaw

The European Commission’s (EC) seeks comprehensively to enhance the EU’s resilience to crisis outside the area of NATO’s collective defence. One reflection of these ambitions is a report on strengthening Europe’s civil-military preparedness, drafted under the guidance of former Finnish President Sauli Niinistö and presented... Read More

Taking the Pulse: Can Europeans Build Their Independent Extended Nuclear Deterrent?

Posted on Apr 07, 2025 | in category: Addressing vulnerability and promoting security | by Carnegie Endowment for International Peace,

The United Kingdom and France would be the most likely alternate providers of extended nuclear deterrence for Europe, although, the UK withdrew from the European Union, questioning its willingness to provide a nuclear umbrella, and its credibility as a provider of nuclear deterrence for Europeans... Read More

The Foundations of America’s Prosperity are Being Dismantled

Posted on Apr 07, 2025 | in category: Addressing vulnerability and promoting security | by MIT Technology Review

Federal scientists warn that U.S. citizens could feel the effects of the new administration's devastating cuts for decades to come. Before the Trump administration’s wide-ranging actions, which now threaten to slash federal research funding, the government remained by far the largest supporter of scientific progress... Read More