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Oxford Research Group (ORG) is an independent nongovernmental organization which seeks to bring about positive change on issues of national and international security. ORG Briefing Papers and Reports provide analysis and discussion on global security, defense and conflict prevention issues.

Publishers: Oxford Research Group (ORG)
Publications: The Integrated Review: Lessons Learned from Remote Warfare
UK-US Defence and Security Relations
UK Energy Security and Climate Change
Britain´s Shadow Army: Policy Options for External Oversight of UK Special Forces
The UK Military in the Arabian Peninsula
The UK Military in the Asia-Pacific
Remote Warfare and the Boko Haram Insurgency
Migration and the European Political Environment
The Case for Integrating a Climate Security Approach into the National Security Strategy
In Afghanistan, More Is Not the Answer
All Quiet on the ISIS Front? British Secret Warfare in an Information Age
Cameroon´s Far North: Responding to Boko Haram
Special Measures: Donald Trump and Trans-Atlantic Relations
The Border Security Paradox
Limited Accountability: A Transparency Audit of the Anti-ISIL Coalition
President Trump: Successor to the Nuclear Throne
So Much Hot Air: Climate Change after the US Election
The Remote Warfare Digest
Jungle Justice: European Migration Policy Seen from the South
Ripe, Ready or Strategic: The Timing of Peace Initiatives
Yemen: A Battle for the Future
Syria after the Ceasefire
A World after ISIS – Part II
Brexit: Whither UK Defence and Foreign Policy?
Assessing SOF Transparency and Accountability: The Use of Special Operations Forces by the UK, US, Australia, and Canada
The UK and UN Peace Operations: A Case for Greater Engagement
‘Drone Chic’
UK Special Forces: Accountability in Shadow War
The World as Seen from Raqqa
Intervention in Libya: Why Here? Why Now? What Next?
Hostile Drones: The Hostile Use of Drones by Non-State Actors against British Targets
SDSR 2015: Continuity, Control and Crisis in UK Defence Policy
2016: Into the Storm
Tear Gassing by Remote Control
Islamic State’s Plan, and the West’s Trap
The 2015 SDSR: The Strategic Issues
The War in Syria: Complex and More Dangerous
The Politics of British Nuclear Disarmament
We Need to Talk About NATO
Libya Between the Sahel-Sahara and the Islamic State Crisis
Beyond Deterrence: Rethinking UK Security Doctrine
Conservative Defence Policy: Five Knowns and Ten Unknowns
Cutting the Cloth: Ambition, Austerity and the Case for Rethinking UK Military Spending
War in Yemen: The African Dimension
Navigating Yemen to Safe Shores: Prospects for National Dialogue and Reconciliation
Devils in the Detail: Implementing Mali's New Peace Accord
Nigeria’s Bloody Valentine: Boko Haram’s Electoral Opportunity
Libya’s Proxy Battlefield
East of Suez, West from Helmand: British Expeditionary Force and the Next SDSR
Too Quiet on the Western Front? The Counterterrorism Build-Up in the Sahel-Sahara Continues
Losing Sight of the Human Cost
From New Frontier to New Normal
Conflict Prevention & Early Intervention
The Internationalisation of Nigeria’s Boko Haram Campaign
The UN and Casualty Recording
Casualty Recording: Assessing State and United Nations Practices
Security in the Sahel: Part 2 - Militarisation of the Sahel
Security in the Sahel: Part 1 - Stabilising Mali in 2013-14
Building Sustainable Peace and Security in the Central African Republic
Stolen Futures: The Hidden Toll of Child Casualties in Syria
A Sustainable Approach to Nuclear Zero
Mali: Consequences of a War
Sanctioning Iran: Implications and Consequences
Towards the Recording of Every Casualty
Good Practice in Conflict Casualty Recording
Climate Change: Drivers of Insecurity and the Global South
Iran's Nuclear Impasse: Breaking the Deadlock
Competition Over Resources: Drivers of Insecurity and the Global South
Towards New Strategies for Palestinian National Liberation
The Legal Obligation to Record Civilian Casualties of Armed Conflicts
Drone Attacks, International Law and the Recording of Civilian Casualties of Armed Conflict
The Drone Wars and Pakistan’s Conflict Casualties, 2010
Talking to the Enemy: Creating New Structure for Negotiations
Marginalisation of the Majority World
Bridging the North-South Divide
Forthcoming Article: Obligations to Record Civilian Casualties
Piecemeal or Peace Deal?
Looking for Leadership: Sustainable Security in Latin America & The Carribean
In Everyone’s Interest: Recording All The Dead, Not Just Our Own
Military Action Against Iran: Impact and Effects
Pariahs to Pioneers
Global Security after the War on Terror
The Need to Acquire Accurate Casualty Records in NATO Operations
Beyond Dependence and Legacy: Sustainable Security in Sub-Saharan Africa
Visions of the Endgame
EU Partnership for Peace - Israeli Track
From Within and Without
The Tipping Point?
The Arab Peace Initiative: Why Now? One Year on from Annapolis
Tigers and Dragons: Sustainable Security in Asia and Australasia
From the Swamp to Terra Firma
Can There Be Any
Nuclear Futures?
An Uncertain Future: Law Enforcement, National Security and Climate Change
Conflict, Economic Closure and Human Security in Gaza
Secure Energy? Are the Risks of New Nuclear Power too Great?
Too Hot to Handle? The Future of Civil Nuclear Power
Mission Accomplished? A Way Forward for the UK in Iraq
Iran's Nuclear Programme and Regional Security
Secure Energy? Civil Nuclear Power, Security and Global Warming
A Semi-Permanent Conference Table: A Process for Sustainable Peace in the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
Voices of Aggression: Exploring Israeli-Iranian Rhetoric
Would Air Strikes Work? Understanding Iran’s Nuclear Programme and the Possible Consequences of a Military Strike
The Future of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
What Would Military Security Look Like Through a Human Security Lens
Replacing Trident: Who will Make the Decisions and How?
Energy Security and Uranium Reserves
Global Responses to Global Threats: Sustainable Security for the 21st Century
Iran's Nuclear Threat: Exploring the Politics
The Risk of Nuclear Terrorism in the UK
Iran's Nuclear Activities
What Lies Beneath Hamas' Rhetoric
Iran: Consequences of a War
Iraqi Liberation?
Learning from Fallujah
Security and Nuclear Power
Effective Safeguards
Rights and Responsibilities
Thinking the Unthinkable
Iraq Body Count: A Dossier of Civilian Casulaties 2003-2005
The Proliferation Consequences of Global Stocks of Separated Civil Plutonium
New Nuclear-Weapon Developments in the USA
Dirty Bombs and Primitive Nuclear Weapons
Achieving a Breakthrough in ’05: Balanced Progress Needed in All Three Pillars
The Need for a Strengthened IAEA Safeguards System
Leading by the Wrong Example
Israel-Palestine: What Future for the Two Peoples?
A Promise Not Realised: Nuclear Disarmament by the Nuclear Weapon States
Counter-Proliferation in a Non-Proliferation World
Addressing the Challenge of Iran
The Nuclear Fuel Cycle
Towards a Universal Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime
Towards A Breakthrough at the 2005 NPT Review Conference
Endless War: The Global War on Terror and the New Bush Administration
Iraq in Light of the January Elections
The Importance of a Fissile Material Treaty
The Illegality of Nuclear Weapons
NATO: Nuclear Sharing or Proliferation?
Test Moratorium and the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty
Challenging the NPT: North Korea's Nuclear Weapons Programme
Europe and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Nuclear Weapons Free Zones: The Untold Success Story of Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation
Strengthening the NPT Regime
Turning Security Assurances into a Legally Binding Instrument
Breakthrough or Bust in '05? The Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference
What Would We want to Say on Global Security Policy to the Incoming US Administration?
Escaping the Subsidy Trap: Why Arms Exports are Bad for Britain
Putting People First
The Human Face of Political Dissent
The Amman Roundtable
The “Blair Doctrine” and After
North Korea: Problems, Perceptions and Proposals
Constructive Approaches to Limiting the Spread of Nuclear Weapons
One Year into Iraq
Iraq: Consequences
The ´War on Terrorism´: 12 Month Audit and Future Strategy Options
A Never-Ending War? Consequences of 11 September
Waiting for Terror: How Realistic Is the Biological, Chemical and Nuclear Threat?
The United States, Europe and the Majority World After 11 September
The NMD Debate: Influences on Policy-Making
Report on the Legal Liabilities for Civil Plutonium Incidents
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