The Winter 2025 Edition of the King's Policy Journal is Out Now!

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).

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Below are the individual policy centres' publications from the Winter 2026 Edition:

Policy Centre for Business and Economics

  • Editor's Note by Jack De France: Link
  • Advancing Green Finance: Policy Solutions for the UK’s Net-Zero Transition by Daniyal Malik: Link
  • Digital Finance in the Middle East: Examining the Role of Digital Currency in Stable Versus Fragile Economies by Fatima Abdulaziz: Link
  • Inheritance Tax, Land, and the Political Economy of Family Farming in the UK by Yandeh Jagne: Link
  • Regulating Crypto-related Mergers and Acquisitions: Building a Coherent Framework for Innovation, Competition and Financial Stability by Dhuwaraka Balamyuran: Link
  • Revisiting Land Value Taxation Amidst the Global Housing Crisis by Kevin Shea: Link
  • The BRICS Challenge: China’s Leverage, Internal Asymmetries, and the Future of Multipolar Finance by Kate Headland and Narayan Srivastava: Link
  • The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Global Market Policy and its Future by Caitlin Seltsikas: Link
  • The Siege of the Fed: How Political Pressure Threatens the U.S. Economy by Efe Kemal Sengor: Link

Policy Centre for Public Health

  • Addressing barriers in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus management among South Asian communities in the UK by Anjala Srisuriyakumar: Link

  • Detained for Being Different: A Critique of the Mental Health Act’s Approach to People with Autism and Learning Disabilities by Mariam Jacob: Link 

  • Effectiveness of global social distancing policy responses to COVID-19 and their effect on the well-being of populations by Weichu Tang: Link
  • Heatwaves’ impacts on cardiovascular health: A plan that fails the most vulnerable in London by Celia Carminda Lima Dos Santos: Link
  • Increasing Female Doctor Representation in Japan: A Public Health Imperative by Akane Li: Link
  • The Global Threat of Antimicrobial Resistance by Zahraa Mahmoud: Link
  • The Hidden Cost of Likes: Appearance-Driven Digital Harm and Adolescent Wellbeing by Sabine Naina Azam: Link
  • To what extent have climate-oriented policies in London and Bristol improved public health and well-being? by Eloise Turnbull: Link
  • Towards Equitable Cardiovascular Disease Prevention: A Policy Analysis Focusing on Deprivation and Ethnic Disparities in the UK by Rachel Potter: Link

Policy Centre for Security and Defence

  • A Post-Hegemonic Gulf? Reassessing U.S strategy by Mace Whaley: Link
  • AUKUS Pillar II and the Institutional Future of Indo-Pacific Security Cooperation by Isabel Hégelé: Link
  • Governing Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems (LAWS): A Two-Tier Framework by Ivan Hoo: Link
  • How America Needs to Safeguard Its Nuclear Weapons from Artificial Intelligence by Christopher Gettel: Link
  • Macau’s role in the China-Lusophone platform: A Mechanism to Advance Security and Defence Interests by Ava L: Link
  • Managing Hybrid Threats: Building Europe’s Response to Russian Sabotage by Carla Coiffard: Link
  • Militarising the Final Frontier: Space Dominance and the Rise of Anti-Satellite Weapons by Magadev Adam Kuha Kumaran: Link
  • Navigating the Narco Corridor: The Pursuit of Security in Central America by Manuela Jimenez Hernandez: Link
  • Palantir Technologies and the Politics of Surveillance by Pola Janowska: Link
  • Reconciling The African Union and the Future of Somalia by Martha Heggs: Link
  • Securing The Middle East: A New Nuclear Blueprint by Hanna Sara Sunny: Link
  • Strategic Priorities and Local Conflicts: U.S. Counterterrorism Policy and Its Influence on Nepal’s Civil War by Biraj Khadka: Link

Policy Centre for Climate, Energy, and Sustainability

  • Editor’s Note by Nandika Karunakaram: Link
  • Greening the Common Agricultural Policy: A Framework for Biodiversity Governance and Sustainable Agriculture by James Dualé: Link
  • Regulatory Gatekeeping and Geopolitical Power: How Green Classifications Reshape Energy Security and Conflict Dynamics by Vedica Karnik: Link
  • The Need for a Unified Carbon Tax System by Annadonata Taccarelli: Link

Policy Centre for European Affairs

  • Civil Military Cooperation and Hybrid Resilience in the European Union: Lessons from NATO Exercises by Mabel Runyon: Link
  • Far-right Mainstreaming and Migration Governance in Europe by Z Coronel: Link
  • The Taith Program and the Politics of International Learning in Post-Brexit Wales by Kirsty Warner: Link

Policy Centre for Gender Studies

  • Gender Deception and the False Equation of Transgender Identity as a Moral Harm Resulting in Legal Injustice by Charlie Sinclair: Link
  • Rights, Reconciliation, and Reality: The Government of Canada’s Federal Pathway to Address Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls by Chloé Currie: Link
  • The Gender Data Gap in the NHS: Assessing the Women’s Health Strategy, by Millie Chohan: Link
  • Whose body, whose choice? Evaluating birth control policies and reproductive rights of women in India by Puneet Kaur Bansal: Link

Policy Centre for Refugee Studies (with KCL STAR)

  • Editors’ Note by Yun Jeong (YJ) Choi & Yusra Patni: Link
  • A Comparative Analysis of EU and UK Migration Policy: The 2024 EU Pact and Post Brexit UK Asylum Governance by Nele Ettrich: Link
  • A Racialized Rhetoric of Immigration and Asylum: A Cause or Byproduct of Right-Wing Populism? By Nadine Bhawanlall: Link
  • Addressing Malian Refugees’ Concerns in Mauritania by Alia Ziati: Link
  • Claiming Asylum in the UK: The Individuals in Limbo by Lesley Lam: Link
  • Climate-Induced Displacement and the Evolving Definition of “Refugee” a study on Haiti and Kiribati by Jessica Abhvani: Link
  • Everyday Bordering and Gendered Exclusion: What Grassroots Women’s Centres Can Teach Migration Policy in the UK by Georgia Howell: Link

  • Policy Analysis of the UK’s 2025 Refugee Family Reunion Halt and Its Implications by Z Coronel: Link

  • Surviving Colonial Systems: Bureaucratic Violence, Mental Health, and the Politics of Belonging in the UK’s Asylum Regime by Yusra Patni: Link
  • The Weaponisation of Refugees: Intelligence Gathering, Surveillance, and Violations of International Law by Francisco Antonio Pereira Marques De Almeida Santos: Link

Policy Centre for Social Justice & Human Rights

  • Editors' Note Andrea Torres and Daniela Denyer: Link
  • From Rights to Outcomes: Evaluating the Institutional Conversion under the UK Employment Rights Bill by Qinlei Wang: Link
  • How does Nationalist Rhetoric Shape Inter-State Relations and Human Rights Outcomes within ASEAN? by Sinamaline Khuong: Link
  • Humanitarian in Law, Impossible in Practice: Over-Compliance and the Iran Sanctions Regime by Evie Neppl: Link
  • Why have Transitional Justice Mechanisms Failed to Deliver Accountability in Sudan Since 2019? by Anthony Bennett: Link

Policy Centre for Technology and Artificial Intelligence

  • AI Decision-Support Systems in Warfare: Lessons from the Gaza Case Study by Emmanuelle Low: Link

  • AWS vs LAWS: A Policy Analysis of the Development and Use of Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems in Combat by Claire Boettcher: Link
  • Can Machines Learn Ethics, Empathy, or Compassion? by Anoushka Tusharkumar Desai: Link
  • Influence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on E-Commerce Supply Chain Logistics by Melanie Cheung: Link
  • Limiting Artificial Intelligence in Academia and Safeguarding Integrity in the Age of Technology by Avani Kashyap: Link
  • The Shadow That AI Casts Over Democracy by Rania Singla: Link
  • UK Regulation of AI in Healthcare: A Comparative Study of UK and EU AI Governance in Healthcare Systems by Alba X. Y: Link

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