David Chaplin Articles

The word empire has been in the news recently, and with good reason. With an election underway in the US which will (once again) determine how America projects itself in the world, the widespread reaction to a single film has placed those men and women who embody...

The agreement over the weekend in Geneva signals the first steps to a coherent policy from the international community towards the Assad regime. Syria is one example of the new challenges facing the UK foreign policy following two years of rapid economic and political...

Nato leaders gathered in Chicago this week to discuss the alliance’s mission in Afghanistan and announced summer 2013 as the handover date to Afghan troops. But the alliance also met to discuss its own future amid savage defence cuts among almost all of its members....

As a fragile ceasefire begins in Syria, the UN is beginning its task of monitoring the violence and reporting back what we already know: that Assad is convinced his way to hang on to power is to kill his own people in their thousands. The international community has...