Editor's Note
Since the last edition of the Emerging Threats Journal, the rate of geopolitical change and action has continued to accelerate. In this edition, we focus specifically on the…
By Dr. Tahir Azad
The advent of hypersonic weapons indicates a significant shift in the global strategic environment, potentially surpassing current defence systems and challenging established notions of deterrence and…
By Max Breet
Biological risks have become a strategic feature of global life but for Britain the central question is one of pace: whether the country can apply its scientific…
By Dr. Hugo Rosemont
'There’s another super power you haven’t mentioned which is Silicon Valley; it’s Big Tech’. So observed the self-declared member of the ‘puzzled and frightened community’, Armando…
Author: Liberty Branston, BA, Hertford College Editor: Alexander Beck, MPhil Candidate, Oxford University
On Monday 17 November, the Emerging Threats Group welcomed Zachary Kallenborn for a deep-dive into the strategic implications…
Author: Liberty Branston, BA, Hertford College Editor: Alexander Beck, MPhil Candidate, Oxford University
On Monday, 10 November 2025, The Emerging Threats Group (ETG) convened for a panel discussion, Quantum Supremacy: Technology,…
Author: Alexander Beck, MPhil Candidate, Oxford University Editor: Farrell Gregory, BA, Mansfield College
On Wednesday, 5 November 2025, the Emerging Threats Group (ETG) at Oxford University convened a fireside chat with…
Author: Alexander Beck, MPhil Candidate, Oxford University Editor: Farrell Gregory, BA, Mansfield College
The Emerging Threats Group convened its fourth-week seminar, Hidden Frontiers: Emerging Threats, Black Swans, and Geopolitics in Defence…
ETJ provides an outlet for forward-looking security and geopolitical analysis. We’re looking for the unconventional and unexpected. ETJ aims to update security paradigms through novel analysis before they are upended…
Author: Alexander Beck, MPhil Candidate, Oxford University Editor: Farrell Gregory, BA, Mansfield College
On October 27, 2025, the Emerging Threats Group at Oxford University hosted a high-level panel discussion on Algorithmic…
Editors: Alexander Beck, MPhil in International Relations Candidate, Oriel College & Farrell Gregory, BA, Mansfield College
Held on 10 July at King’s College London, the Defence Biosecurity Forum brought…
Author: Sydney Reis, DPhil Candidate, Oxford Department of Computer Science
In this timely and incisive paper, Sydney Reis, a DPhil candidate and Research Associate with the Emerging Threats Group at…