The Summer 2026 Edition of the King's Policy Journal

Check out the latest edition of our journal below!

This term features an array of topics, and this year, the journal includes two additional Policy Centres: Technology and AI, as well as Refugee Studies, in collaboration with KCL Student Action for Refugees! We are also happy to announce that this term's Journal features a record-breaking 60 papers, covering pressing issues worldwide.

We would also like to thank the Editors of each Policy Centre for their leadership and commitment: Jack De France (Business & Economics), Nandika Karunakaram (Climate, Energy & Sustainability), Noah Tardu (European Affairs), Beatriz Da Fonseca Pereira Ventura (Gender Studies), Elena Alexandra Bregy (Public Health), Yun Jeong Choi and Yusra Awaiz Patni (Refugee Studies), Corbin Spang and Nidhi Chauhan (Security & Defence), Daniela Denyer and Andrea Torres (Social Justice & Human Rights), and Alayna Davis (Technology & Artificial Intelligence).

Below are the individual Policy Centres' publications from the Summer 2026 Edition:

Policy Centre for Business and Economics:

  • Influence of Government Intervention on Strength of Entrepreneurial Ecosystems by Melanie Cheung: Link
  • Lessons From Germany: Professionalising The UK’s Private Rented Sector by Jacky Lee Roberts: Link
  • Tackling Economic Inactivity: The Urgent Need for Robust Benefit Reforms in a Low-Growth Economy by Benjamin E. McWilliam: Link
  • The Return of the State: Industrial Policy in the Modern Day by Meher Bhunia: Link
  • The Rise of "Finfluencers" and Modern Day Trading by Viha Dalmia: Link
  • The State Pension and the Triple Lock by Kate Headland: Link
  • When Digitalisation Does Not Formalise: The Latin American Payments Paradox by Maria Alice Verdi Veloso: Link

Policy Centre for Social Justice & Human Rights:

  • Geopolitical Fragmentation and Transactional Diplomacy: A Realist Analysis of United Nations Ineffectiveness in Contemporary Humanitarian Crises by Yusof Gibran: Link
  • How has gender apartheid been institutionalised and enforced in Afghanistan since the Taliban’s takeover in 2021? By Anthony Bennett: Link
  • Labour Migration and the GCC Development Model: Policy Frameworks for Kafala Reform and Migrant Worker Protection by Madina Taraki: Link
  • Making the Invisible Visible: Spain’s Immigration Reform and the Future of Labour Migration in Europe By Sofía Oural Martínez: Link
  • Modern-day Slavery in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: Structural Inequality, Armed Conflict, and Global Supply Chains By Anthony Bennett: Link
  • The Aftermath of Peace: Navigating the Nagorno-Karabakh Peace Process through Memory Politics by Angel Savanagouder: Link
  • The Rise of the Populist Algorithm as a Threat to Free and Fair Democratic Politics by Daniela Denyer Malo: Link
  • The Subaltern Speaks Nonetheless: Tamil Women during Sri Lanka’s Civil War by Thisuri Perera: Link
  • “To what extent has illegal gold mining in Peru become institutionalised through legislative capture and political financing mechanisms?” By Daniella Ronceros: Link

Policy Centre for Climate, Energy and Sustainability:

  • Climate Change, Resource Scarcity and the Transformation of Global Security in the Twenty-First Century by Elizabeth Sullivan: Link
  • How Resource Characteristics Shape Patterns of Conflict by Geethika Duddu: Link
  • The Hard Ceiling: Carbon Caps, Grid Modernisation, and the Geopolitics of China's Green Transition by Kelly Huynh: Link
  • Who Bears the Cost? An Adaptation Framework for Climate Justice in the UK by James Dualé: Link

Policy Centre for European Affairs:

  • Russian Influence and Democratic Governance in Georgia by Christopher Stobart: Link

  • The Trinity House Trap: The Structural Limits of Anglo-German Defence Bilateralism by Jena Curtis: Link
  • Russian Subversion and the Challenge to European Democracies
    by Francesco Ranieri: Link

Policy Centre for Security and Defence:

  • Financial Warfare at Sea: Maritime Insurance and the Security of Global Shipping by Magadev Adam Kuha Kumaran: Link
  • Strategic Vulnerabilities in Western Ammunition Production: Insights from the Ukraine War by Kirsty Marriott: Link
  • The Limits of Naval Deterrence in the Strait of Hormuz: Lessons for Indo-Pacific Maritime Security, by Raphaël Maurer: Link
  • The Need for Infrastructure in the Canadian Arctic: National Security and Economic Interest by Sebastien Bixby: Link
  • How Europe is Posturing its Nuclear Forces to Deter Further Russian Aggression by Christopher Gettel: Link

Policy Centre for Public Health:

  • Escaping the “Graveyard of Pilots: Addressing the Political Economy of Pilotitis in Public Health by Arsala Baweja: Link

  • GLP-1s: A treatment for obesity or an unmasker of inequality by Jasmine Ilesanmi: Link

  • The postcode lottery of Cancer Diagnosis: Evaluating RDC rollout across England by Amélie Hrbková: Link