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.
Related Publications
The Nuclear State
Download Publication Online Reader In recent years, increasing scrutiny has fallen on the British state’s institutional capacity and the need to rebuild an effective civil service. That same attention should now be applied to nuclear governance. Following years of institutional decline and subsequent underinvestment, political and popular support for nuclear energy and the deterrent have returned with new momentum. The Government has placed nuclear at the heart of its defence […]
Realising the Fingleton Review
Download Publication Online Reader The Government’s acceptance of the Fingleton Review’s recommendations in full marks a serious and welcome shift in favour of removing the primary regulatory barriers to nuclear expansion, as recommended by the Policy Exchange Nuclear Enterprise Commission in June. By accepting the Review’s core diagnosis and signalling renewed political backing for the sector, Ministers have taken an important step towards reversing years of delay, high cost and institutional […]
‘Intellectual Rearmament’ in the Third Nuclear Age
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 be tasked […]
The Case for Full UK-US Strategic Economic Alignment
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 […]