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Philip Shetler-Jones

Dr Philip Shetler-Jones is Senior Research Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute. He works in the field of Europe-Asia security cooperation, with a personal focus on United Kingdom-Japan defence and security relations. After service in the Royal Marines, he worked in peacekeeping with a number of organisations and was an Associate Fellow at the Council on Geostrategy from 2021 to 2023.

Philip Shetler-Jones

The Afghanistan withdrawal: a pivot, not a retreat

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Dr Philip Shetler-Jones discusses the withdrawal from Afghanistan and argues that it represents changing priorities rather than defeat

The Euro-Atlantic or the Indo-Pacific: a false choice

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Dr Philip Shetler-Jones argues that British military deployments to the Indo-Pacific region do not come at the expense of its role in the defence of Europe

How allies ‘position’ the United Kingdom

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Dr Philip Shetler-Jones explains how key allies – the United States, Germany and Japan – ‘position’ the United Kingdom as an international actor

Ten myths about the British ‘tilt’ to the Indo-Pacific

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Dr Philip Shetler-Jones debunks ten of the most popular myths circulating about the United Kingdom’s ‘tilt’ to the Indo-Pacific region. What are they?

A new type of Britain-Japan Alliance

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Dr Philip Shetler-Jones assesses Britain’s ‘tilt’ towards the Indo-Pacific and new kind of alliance with Japan. Can both countries learn from the past?