Chatham House: Independent thinking on international affairs
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Each year Chatham House experts, speakers and publications contribute to around 3,000 interviews and articles in the national and international media. The list below is a short selection of contributions in recent days and weeks.
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Patricia Lewis said Mr Amano's comments appeared to confirm suspicions that groups had got their hands on devices used by scientists to prevent radioactive emissions in transit.
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Paul Melly said a gradual ECOWAS deployment backed by the international community is a powerful bargaining chip.
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Addressing Chatham House in London, International Atomic Energy Agency chief Yukiya Amano said one of the main risks was that militants could detonate a so-called nuclear 'dirty bomb' to contaminate a major city.
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[State oil company] Sonangol has been operating as a kind of sovereign fund, so it will be interesting to see whether this new fund is seen as relieving Sonangol to focus on the core business of oil or as competition, says Markus Weimer.
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Despite the growth in jihadist groups, there are few further signs of an Al-Qaeda state, or even a coherent, armed Islamist movement in the peninsula, wrote Nicolas Pelham in a report last month for Chatham House.
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This attack on her has highlighted the issue, has sparked public outrage and the next step seems to me to move away from her story - and obviously we hope she recovers - and to the government of Pakistan, says Gareth Price.
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But the problem is that the market has no idea where Washington really wants to go with the Iranian question into 2013. Even seasoned oil hands such as Lord Browne (ex BP CEO) were struggling to come up with any convincing answers at a recent Chatham House event.
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There's an interesting cultural trend at work here, identified in a new report from Chatham House: 'The fall in the demand for private vehicles in younger age groups predated the economic decline...'
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Impoverished Congo sits on large reserves of gold and the minerals used in electronics production and - according to a Chatham House study - an estimated 10 million people are directly or indirectly dependent on the mining industry.
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A two-track strategy has been under way ever since: the use of the renminbi in cross-border trade settlement and creation of an offshore market, starting with Hong Kong in 2009, as a paper out last month by Chatham House points out.
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A new report by Chatham House finds that the threat of oil running out is no longer imminent, and the concept of peak oil increasingly looks like a bad idea.
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Hezbollah have been left alone supporting Assad and even within their ranks their is a division. They know that Damascus and Hezbollah will fall on the wrong side of history, says Nadim Shehadi.
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When you have uprisings where you don't have that proper control of your forces and well-defined battle processes, the political consensus doesn't apply in the same way, says David Livingstone.
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A well-functioning international monetary system should allow an adjustment between countries with surpluses and deficits in its balance of payments. This is not happening any more, says Paola Subacchi.
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Turkey wants to hasten the demise of President Bashar Assad's regime in Damascus, but really its hands are tied, says Fadi Hakura.
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The end of the dominance of the dollar in the next decades seems inevitable and the logical reflection of the changing order in the world economy. There is wide consensus that a multicurrency system is the endgame to such process, says Paola Subacchi.
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There's nobody that can make a credible argument to say the EU hasn't created peace on a continent that hadn't seen peace in centuries, says Xenia Dormandy.
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This week, Chatham House published its take on the future of the oil and gas industries. [The report] concluded that oil firms seem configured for a past era, not the next.
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On one level, it's a reasonably deserved award, because if you compare the previous several centuries since the EU was created, its members have avoided all kinds of conflict, says Iain Begg.
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Hezbollah leader Seyed Hassan Nasrallah had to react to his people being killed in Syria. It will lead to a credibility loss and he needs to find a way of containing it, says Nadim Shehadi.