Christopher Phillips

Professor of International Relations at Queen Mary University of London

Could the US-Iran war spark World War III?

Is the world on the brink of a global conflagration? The US-Israel attack on Iran has sparked panic in some quarters. A Telegraph headline on 7 March…

Why regime change in Iran is unlikely

The US, it seems, is back in the ‘regime change’ business. Despite his past promises to “stop the reckless and costly policy of regime change,”…

Ukraine: the war that shook the world

Four years after Russia’s all-out invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, it’s clear that the war has been transformative. Obviously, the most…

America’s Western allies hedge their bets

Western states’ warming ties with China would have been hard to imagine a few years ago. It was only in May 2023 that the G7, at President Joe Biden…

Western silence on Sudan speaks volumes

The fall of the Sudanese city of El-Fasher in November led to horrendous reports of mass killing. In recent days, British parliamentarians were told…

Can Trump make peace or just ceasefires?

US President Donald Trump likes to think of himself as a peacemaker. He also likes to point it out whenever he can. When attending the signing of a…