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History is littered with near misses, but the latest tensions between the US and North Korea offer their own special risks of Armageddon.

With the focus on military goals in Syria and Iraq, pursuing criminal accountability for atrocities by the many warring parties has been dangerously neglected.

Examining the post-election landscape of the US and analysing how the president-elect should tackle major policy on immigration, trade, and the Middle East.

At the beginning of June the oil markets began to fluctuate nervously, the business of the United Nations Security Council ground to a halt and newspapers around the world turned their attention back to the on-going struggle between the world’s remaining superpower and its foremost rogue state. After over a decade of war, regional instability and human suffering, the problem of Iraq is once more dominating international diplomacy.

Research focuses on the civil war and resulting humanitarian crisis, in addition to its impact on the economy and the role of factions such as the Houthis.

It has been a year of bad news and fake news. Here are some more inspiring events that really happened in 2017.

Neil Quilliam and Reni Zhelyazkova examine how the GCC states and the EU have reacted to the US president’s proposed plan for Israeli-Palestinian peace.

Conflict Prevention and Crisis Management in the 21st Century

Supply, demand and stability