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Welcome to \u2018The Strategist Six\u2019<\/em>, a feature that provides a glimpse into the thinking of prominent academics, government officials, military officers, reporters and interesting individuals from around the world.<\/em><\/p>\n

1. As an American and German in London, what surprised you the most about Brexit?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Well, I was surprised that Brexit happened in the first place! But I was also surprised by the election of Donald Trump\u2014I think many of us who follow these events missed, or at least underestimated, the populist movements. We\u2019re now trying to interpret them and understand where things might go, but I\u2019m not sure the received wisdom about populism is correct. Unfortunately, we\u2019re still going in the wrong direction in terms of resolving the enormous divisions in societies; people aren\u2019t talking to each other.<\/p>\n

2. How healthy is the special relationship between the US and the UK today?<\/strong><\/p>\n

There are different layers of the US\u2013UK relationship: there\u2019s the relationship between President Trump and Prime Minister Theresa May, which is not great. At the working level, though, there are strong, committed relationships, whether it\u2019s in intelligence sharing or between parliamentarians and congressional members or between officials in the Foreign Office or the State Department. Those relationships are very strong, but the senior level is fraying and fragmented. It\u2019s worrying.<\/p>\n

Trump isn\u2019t treating traditional US partners such as the UK well, in the same way that he also isn\u2019t supporting NATO appropriately in his public pronouncements. I recently attended the Munich Security Conference, where a number of NATO countries were concerned about rumours that the US was going to put unhelpful pressure on them to reach their 2% commitments. That can only serve the interests of Russia, and won\u2019t help to preserve and strengthen NATO. But the other thing that was interesting about Munich was that over 60 congressional members were there to emphasise bipartisan support for the Atlantic alliance and the European Union, while Vice President Mike Pence and Trump were sending very different messages. This was the largest US congressional delegation in the 55-year history of the Munich Security Conference<\/p>\n

3. In light of the Shamima Begum case<\/a>, what should the UK do about Britons who now seek to return home after fighting for or supporting ISIL?<\/strong><\/p>\n

There are laws governing what the country needs to do and the ways it should manage these cases. For dual nationals the government can\u2014in exceptional circumstances\u2014revoke their British passport, though at the same time, they can\u2019t be left stateless. If they return on their own accord, the government will have to figure out whether it prosecutes or whether to enlist them in one of the programs to try to deradicalise them. But they\u2019re not going to go out of their way to facilitate their return\u2014as we\u2019ve heard from senior government officials, they are not going to put lives at risk by sending anyone to Syria to collect people like Shamima Begum. However, once ISIL is defeated in that last remaining enclave in Syria, you will have hundreds of family members or ISIL fighters who are going to try to return to the UK or want to return to Europe, so it\u2019s an emerging challenge and it could be a significant challenge for law enforcement here and in other countries.<\/p>\n

4. Looking around the globe at various hot spots, pressure points and leadership styles, what is most concerning to you?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think today\u2019s challenges are that different in scope and scale from past challenges, but it\u2019s a far more dangerous world because the US is not providing the leadership it used to provide. You see some world leaders talking publicly about not relying on America anymore, and asserting they will do more on their own\u2014Angela Merkel has probably been the most vocal, but the Canadians have also made similar comments. You\u2019re seeing this fragmentation because the US is no longer the global standard-bearer of the rules-based international order. There are a number of challenges, whether it\u2019s Russian interference in US and European elections, the attempted murder of Sergei Skripal, Chinese hacking, the catastrophic Syrian civil war or the conflict in Yemen. All need committed leadership, and the US is not leading in the way that it has traditionally done. So, it\u2019s now about what like-minded countries or multilaterals like the UN or the EU can do to provide that leadership.<\/p>\n

5. What are the major challenges or opportunities facing think tanks like RUSI [the <\/strong>Royal United Services Institute]<\/strong> today?<\/strong><\/p>\n

With all of the security challenges we\u2019re facing right now I think it\u2019s important to have fresh ideas and to convene smart, creative people\u2014those with very different perspectives, from the public sector, private sector and scholarly worlds\u2014to consider a range of practical responses. Sometimes we host such meetings privately and other times we do them as public events. It\u2019s important to provide evidence-based research and practical suggestions for dealing with today\u2019s challenges, and then disseminate the ideas through the variety of means that are available, be it via social media or in newspapers or on our website. But I think it\u2019s incumbent upon all of us to provide workable, practical ideas, not pie-in-the-sky proposals.<\/p>\n

6. In RUSI\u2019s In Context<\/em> podcast<\/a>, you conclude by asking your guests what they would say to young people who aspire to work in international affairs. What advice would you give?<\/strong><\/p>\n

People tend to have two different approaches to their career. Some know from day one what they want to be when they grow up and they chart their path very carefully. Most of the rest of us don\u2019t really have that kind of foresight or we don\u2019t necessarily know what we want to do. Careers are changing so much now that it\u2019s potentially smarter to not have such a clear idea because maybe that career might not exist by the time you get to the right age.<\/p>\n

My advice is that you should find good mentors and work for those you really respect and think you can learn from. It\u2019s also about trying to figure out what you\u2019re good at and getting better at things you\u2019re not good at. But I believe in playing to your strengths, as ideally the teams you work in have a mixture of people with different strengths, all bringing something unique to the table.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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