🇲🇹 & 🇬🇧 / Senior Lecturer in National Security Studies @warstudies @KCL_CGS @KingsCDS / @CircleU_eu Chair /❤️ music & poetry / 🔶 she/her / Chair @CPSE15
Stratford, London
Joined April 2009
- Tweets4.1K
- Following3K
- Followers2.8K
- Likes8.6K
Pinned Tweet
🚨My 1st solo-authored article is out @GlobalPerspJnl & free for 30 days!🥳
How did #smallstates navigate COVID-19? Did WHO, EU & multilateral mechanisms work? How did #Singapore,#NewZealand, #Belize etc. find work-arounds? Where do we go from here??
online.ucpress.edu/gp/articl…
New from Hillary Briffa @h1llz in our Future of Multilateralism and Global Development special collection: Small States and #COVID19: Challenges and Opportunities for Multilateralism doi.org/10.1525/gp.2023.5770…
Dr Hillary Briffa retweeted
I have worked on a new "metro map" for EU security and defence. It has been about 5 years since I first created the map, so there are a lot of changes. I have tried to make the map visually simpler.
Download here: danielfiott.com/2026/10/12/m… #EUdefence
Dr Hillary Briffa retweeted
Are middle powers natural allies? 🤝
As great power rivalry intensifies, nine expert perspectives in our latest #BigAsk examine whether shared interests can overcome competing strategic priorities.
✍️ @Przemek_Biskup, @h1llz, @ameliahadfield1, @RobynVidra and @rpachecopardo, @ALanoszka, Dr Zeno Leoni, @nagystephen1, @james_rogers, and @GraySergeant.
🔗 britainsworld.org.uk/p/the-b…
[1/3]
Dr Hillary Briffa retweeted
. @SmallStatesQM, @UMmalta and @UWEBristol are delighted to announce that the latest issue of #SmallStatesandTerritories features papers from and inspired by the April 2025 conference "Referendums in Small States and Territories". Check it out here: um.edu.mt/sst/currentissue/.
Dr Hillary Briffa retweeted
One week left to submit!
📢 Call for Papers: FASI's Air & Space Postgraduate Conference 2026
🗨️ Submissions welcome from postgraduate researchers, Masters & PhD students
🚨 Deadline: Friday 27 March
To find out more or to submit a paper, visit 👇
kcl.ac.uk/events/air-and-spa…
Dr Hillary Briffa retweeted
Are you a @KingsCollegeLon Masters student working on air & space related topics?
@freeman_air are hosting a group session where students can discuss dissertation proposals & get tailored industry expert advice.
📅 19 March
📍Dockrill Room
🔗 ow.ly/7nfB50Yh0nV
Dr Hillary Briffa retweeted
Should 🇬🇧 embrace a tougher approach towards 🇮🇷?
We asked 8 experts in today’s #BigAsk
✍️ @h1llz, @warmatters, @william_freer, @joshuachuminski, @LouiseSKettle, Dr Timothy Less, @Marina_Miron, @RGWhitman
#BritainsWorld
britainsworld.org.uk/p/the-b…
Dr Hillary Briffa retweeted
🌍 ‘In today’s world, where every major power is unsettling the system, that uncertainty now includes even those who once promised order. That is the crisis,’ writes @h1llz, our Adjunct Fellow
#BigAsk #BritainsWorld
britainsworld.org.uk/p/the-b…
Dr Hillary Briffa retweeted
The Permanent Mission of Malta to the United Nations in New York is recruiting Interns.
The image attached to this post contains more information.
Join us and play a meaningful role in advancing Malta’s work at the United Nations on key global issues.🌍
Dr Hillary Briffa retweeted
Remember to sign up now for our @ethicsBISA event on 14 January 🎉
An online workshop 'Teaching ethics in dark times' asking how to prepare students to engage ethically with complex global issues 🌟
Free and open to all! 👉 ow.ly/uvI850XK5GP
@AnnaBPlunkett @h1llz
Dr Hillary Briffa retweeted
‘What distinguishes 🇶🇦 performance in 2025 is that it has maintained a diplomatic posture under direct provocation, contributing in an outsized manner to international security,’ argues @h1llz, our Adjunct Fellow
#BigAsk #BritainsWorld
britainsworld.org.uk/p/the-b…
Dr Hillary Briffa retweeted
Sign up now for one of our first events of 2026! 🎉
14 January
Online workshop 'Teaching ethics in dark times' with @ethicsBISA asking how we prepare students to engage ethically with complex global issues 🌟
Find the event here 👉 bisa.ac.uk/members/working-g…
@AnnaBPlunkett @h1llz
Dr Hillary Briffa retweeted
1/3
Today Malta is delighted to celebrate the first-ever International Day of the Deep Seabed, and we are proud to have played a role in launching this important initiative.
On this day almost 60 years ago, Arvid Pardo, then PR of Malta to the UN, spoke at #UNGA.
Dr Hillary Briffa retweeted
Join us on 15 Oct for a Diplomacy Workshop with Prof R.P. Barston at King’s College London. KCL students only!
📍 King’s Building
🕐Wednesday 15 Oct, 1pm -3pm
🔗Event Link: kcl.ac.uk/events/diplomacy-w…
Dr Hillary Briffa retweeted
How does climate change drive violence in the world’s most vulnerable regions?
Join us for a book talk with journalist Peter Schwartzstein on The Heat and the Fury, exploring how climate change fuels global conflicts.
📅13 Oct | 🕘12:30 | 📍Strand
🔗 bit.ly/3Jlj8HW
Dr Hillary Briffa retweeted
🚨New Blog article:
For years, violent conflicts, related deaths and forces displacements have been spiralling. Why is this happening? And could a ‘peace lens’ help the UK respond more effectively in its forthcoming National Security Strategy?
rethinkingsecurity.org.uk/20…...
Dr Hillary Briffa retweeted
Tomorrow is the deadline for international students to apply for the 2025-26 National Security Studies MA @warstudies. (UK students have another month to apply.) All interested should check out the webpage, & feel free to contact @h1llz or me. kcl.ac.uk/study/postgraduate…
Dr Hillary Briffa retweeted
How do countries address today’s complex security challenges?
The National Security Studies module explores strategy, cyber security, counterterrorism & policy, with insights from international security experts. @josephdevanny @h1llz
📝Apply by: 31 Aug
bit.ly/44Mv0tB
Dr Hillary Briffa retweeted
Security Policy and Practice WG event 🎉
🚨'Digesting the UK's new National Security Strategy'🚨
Offering an opportunity to discuss the analysis and policy directions set out in the National Security Strategy 🌎
Sign up now 👉 bisa.ac.uk/members/working-g…
@LarryAttree @EliSchweig
Dr Hillary Briffa retweeted
As #Malta sends 250 tonnes of flour to #Gaza, we stand firm in our belief that hunger must never be a weapon of war.
In the past five years, Malta has contributed over €1.1 million in aid to the Palestinian people, with €350,000 this year alone.
This as we continue to call for de-escalation, an end to hostilities and the release of all 7 October hostages by Hamas.
