Edward Barlow
Research Fellow
Edward Barlow is a Research Fellow in the National Security Unit and a recent graduate of the University of Cambridge and the London School of Economics, where he specialised in Russian and Iranian foreign policy alongside German intellectual history.
Download Publication Online Reader Britain’s nuclear deterrent and strategy are configured for a strategic environment that no longer exists. Nuclear weapons have returned to the forefront of international politics, driven by intensifying great-power competition, nuclear coercion and increasingly collaborative adversaries. Yet, Britain’s strategic assumptions are still grounded in the unipolarity of the post-Cold War period, during which time it retired its sub-strategic capabilities, leading its Trident-armed submarines to […]
Download Publication Online Reader A new study by Policy Exchange provides the rationale and template for a new UK-U.S. tech-security trade deal centred around the emerging technologies of the 21st century. The authors argue that the UK would reap transformative economic and security benefits from strategic alignment and deeper collaboration with the democratic world’s technological and economic superpower. In a foreword for the report, former UK Chief Trade Negotiation Adviser Sir Crawford Falconer […]
Download Publication Online Reader These two primer papers on the UK’s civil and military nuclear history launch the new Policy Exchange Nuclear Enterprise Commission. The Commission’s work will study how the Government should combine and amplify its civil and military nuclear programmes drawing on expertise from renowned international military officials, policymakers, academics, engineers and more. Backed by former UK Cabinet Secretary Rt Hon Simon Case CVO, the Commission’s publications and […]