Senior Researcher

Jack Pannell

Jack is a Senior Researcher at the British Foreign Policy Group, where he works on the relationship between domestic and foreign policy. His research covers national resilience and security, including how a whole of society approach can help the UK respond to threats at home and abroad. He also works to co-convene the UK Soft Power Group with the British Council, and works on BFPG's Annual Survey of UK Public Opinion on Foreign Policy and its Diplomatic Hour series. Before joining BFPG, Jack researched parliament and the UK constitution at the Institute for Government and worked on Latin America at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs in Washington DC.

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Jack Pannell

Soft power is the edge in a hard power era

Jack Pannell argues that in a volatile world, soft power remains vital to the UK, and that hard and soft power are not an either-or trade-off.