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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The government's reaction ensured international recognition for the perpetrators and makes copycat attacks more likely, writes David Livingstone.
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There is a management structure within the AU that shies away from delegation and seeks to micro-manage... this makes responding to rapidly changing events difficult, says Alex Vines.
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In the wake of the spike in far-right activity, the risk of 'cumulative extremism' is one of the issues that should occupy minds, writes Matthew Goodwin.
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Libya was a fractious issue with flip-flopping of [African Union] member states who weren't quite sure what their position should be, said Alex Vines.
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The discovery of massive gas fields off the shores of Israel might alter her situation from almost complete dependency on energy imports to a net exporter, writes Yossi Mekelberg.
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Neither the leadership change in Beijing nor in Islamabad will lead to change in the direction of relations between the two countries, according to Rosheen Kabraji.
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[Shale development in the US] has been building up over some years, but only in the last three years has it reached big proportions, says John Mitchell.
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For those involved in trade, the border dispute in the Ladakh area is insignificant, says Gareth Price.
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China and India need to work out a closer relationship in the future, to improve their trade and cooperate on strategic issues, says Rod Wye.
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Whoever's going to lead the Syrian opposition is always going to be just a frontman, says David Butter.
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Withdrawal from the EU would leave Britain looking irrelevant in Europe and the world would be likely to draw its own conclusion, writes Lord Williams.
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Nigeria's military campaign is not a change in strategy - it is an intensification of strategy - but there are doubts over whether it will be effective, says Elizabeth Donnelly.
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Ahmed Soliman says to avoid a return of violence in the region, both militias from the two rival camps need to be integrated into the Somali national army.
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We have an aspirational goal of September for reaching resolution on some of these issues [over how to supervise derivatives markets in the wake of the financial crisis], Brian Bussey, associate director for derivatives policy at the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), told a Chatham House roundtable.
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There's a real spiralling in violence... linked to an expansion of the resources of Boko Haram and an increase in the sophistication of weaponry, says Elizabeth Donnelly.
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If anything, [intelligence gathering] has increased [since the Cold War]. The methods have changed — or so we thought — because it's more about industrial espionage and corruption these days, says James Nixey.
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I think the proposed reforms are coherent with the agenda China's new leadership has set out. But this round of reform is still in the early days. It takes time for the decisions to be translated into actions, writes Roderic Wye.
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Turkey had boundless ambition and energy to project regional power and influence in the post-Arab Spring Middle East. Reyhanli, and the Syrian civil war more generally, is a stark reminder of the messy transition in an unpredictable part of the world, writes Fadi Hakura.
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'Obama is trying to get behind the rebels but he does not want to do anything that undermines the chance for a negotiated diplomatic solution to the conflict,' said Robin Niblett. Mr Niblett said the British government, by contrast, fears that attempts at a diplomatic solution will go nowhere – and that without providing some weapons to the rebels, the West will lose influence over them.