📣🌐 FPC Senior Adviser Craig Oliphant spoke to The Globe and Mail @globeandmail ahead of today’s Trump-Zelensky meeting at the White House. 💬“[Zelensky] is going with back-up… He’ll be looking to leaders like Starmer to do their bit.”. 🔗

📝 TNR Working Group response to JCHR → 📖 Dr Furstenberg on how democracies must respond → 🌍 Nick Hopkinson on diplomacy & democratic renewal → #Diplomacy #CivilSociety #UKPolicy

🗞️🆕Last week we focused on transnational repression (TNR) and the broader threats to democratic resilience and international cooperation. 👇Catch up on the key contributions from our team and network . #TNR #Democracy #HumanRights #ForeignPolicy.

📅🎉 One week to go!. Susan Coughtrie, Director of FPC, will join the “Making America Great Again?” panel at the Festival of Politics. 🕐 Wed 20 Aug, 13:00 BST.📍@VisitScotParl.🎟️

💬“Today the liberal international order looks less liberal, less international and less ordered… Spaces such as Wilton Park are needed more than ever.”. Hopkinson reflects on lessons from Wilton Park’s post-WW2 legacy and how diplomacy can strengthen democracy today.

🗳️🌍 New op-ed by Nick Hopkinson, former director of @WiltonPark:. The urgent need to revive democracy and the power of diplomacy. 📖

💬🔴 “By taking a weak stand to respond to TNR, Western leaders effectively grant legitimacy and continuity of such authoritarian patterns. ” - @s_furstenberg . 📖Read:

📢Continuing our focus on transnational repression, FPC Research Fellow Dr Saipira Furstenberg examines the challenges democracies face in confronting authoritarian TNR. She explores policy gaps, risks to human rights, and why coordinated, rights-based strategies are essential⬇️

FPC is a founding member of the Tackling TNR in the UK Working Group, working alongside partners across civil society and academia. 📝 Following the JCHR report on TNR, the group released a public statement calling for coordinated UK action. 📄 Read it:

🚨 Addressing Transnational Repression in the UK. The Foreign Policy Centre is working to raise awareness of transnational repression (TNR) as a growing threat to democratic resilience and fundamental rights. ➡️

🎉🌐 Our Director, Susan Coughtrie , joins the Festival of Politics on 20 Aug at the Scottish Parliament for the panel: “Making America Great Again?”. What does Trump’s renewed “America First” agenda mean for the UK & Europe?. 🎟️Tickets: 🕐 13:00–14:30 BST

Ray Svitla on digital citizenship and governance in exile (Belarus).💬 @ray_svitla “Displacement breeds innovation; those in exile are not merely adapting to digital governance; they are pioneering it. ”.

Nataliia Danova on Ukrainians' economic contributions in the UK.💬 “Integration is shaped by opportunity and agency…”.

Meder Dastanbekov on labour migration and regional cooperation in Kyrgyzstan.💬 “For the governments of receiving countries such as the UK, labour migration schemes offer opportunities for cultural exchange and stronger relations in the region. ”.

Ainur Kanafina on principled diplomacy in Central Asia.💬 “A principled approach is not merely altruistic – it is strategically sound. ”.

Aigulle Sembaeva on shifting colonial mindsets in Russia and the wider region.💬 “We need to have conversations between different nations and ethnic groups about their experiences…”.

Nino Gogoladze on diversity and peace in Georgia.💬 @GogoldzN “When minorities take part in the decision-making process, they take ownership of those decisions. ”.

Kateryna Musiienko on Ukraine.💬 “We have a window of opportunity to create a global alliance based on democratic values and we must not miss it. ”.

Baroness Alison Suttie on the democratic stakes across the region.💬 “We can see all too clearly that democracy is fragile and precious, and not to be taken for granted…”.

📘 Our expert mini-series on #GeopoliticalShifts w/ @JohnSmithTrust is now live in full. Eight contributors from Europe and Central Asia reflect on how democracy, identity and diplomacy are currently being reshaped. 🔗 🧵8 key quotes from the series ⬇️