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Centre for Commonwealth Affairs
Research Papers
An Entirely New Conception: the Commonwealth Today and Tomorrow
Sam Bidwell and Jonathan Heywood, with an introductory essay by Lord Howell of Guildford (March 2023)
Introducing the Centre for Commonwealth Affairs, 'An Entirely New Conception' makes a case for a renewed and revitalised Commonwealth policy effort, setting out the Centre's long term aims and ambitions.
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Articles

United Kingdom
November 9 2023: The emerging power of Nigeria (Reaction)
October 25 2023: How the UK can better compete with Chinese influence in Nigeria (Conservative Home)
July 9 2023: The rise and fall (and rise?) of the Commonwealth Club (The Critic)
June 13 2023: Britain shouldn't sell its soul for a trade deal with India (Conservative Home)
June 8 2023: Britain's Commonwealth Narcissism (Reaction)
May 12 2023: The Commonwealth is the heart of London's diplomat community (The Diplomat)

Bangladesh
September 27 2023: Bangladesh’s economic boom (Dhaka Tribune)
June 17 2023: Bangladesh and the Commonwealth share much more than history (Dhaka Tribune)
May 17 2023: Bangladesh should put the Commonwealth at the centre of its thinking (Daily Star)

Australia
July 25 2023: Opportunity lost with the Commonwealth Games (Lowy Institute)
May 11 2023: Australia: the lynchpin of a modernised Commonwealth (Lowy Institute)
April 17 2023: Australia, not Britain, now leads the Commonwealth (Spectator Australia)

Pakistan
June 23 2023: Pakistan should remember its friends in the Commonwealth (The Friday Times)
June 22 2023: The missed potential of Pakistan's soft power (Nation)
Ghana

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