Christopher Phillips
Academic, Writer, Commentator. Christopher Phillips is Professor of International Relations at Queen Mary and an Associate Fellow at Chatham House. He regularly appears in the broadcast and print media and consults governments, NGOs and private companies on geopolitics and security. He is author of Everyday Arab Identity (2012), The Battle for Syria (2016 [2020]) and Battleground: 10 conflicts that explain the new Middle East (2024). He is also co-editor of What Next for Britain in the Middle East? (2021) The opinions expressed here are his own.
Recent posts
- Trump has lost the Iran war, but how badly?
- Why regime change in Iran is unlikely
- Is this the dawn of a new era in the Middle East?
- Why has Assad fallen and what next?
- This is what a post-American Middle East looks like
- Why it suits Jordan if everyone thinks it’s on the brink
- Who is winning the Gaza war? China
- Can China become a mediation superpower?
- Israel-Hamas war creates challenges for Britain
- What’s so bad about a multipolar world?