The HSC's Director argues that we don’t want to look back a decade from now and wonder how we lost the Kurds.
Read More »Even if Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi really is dead, his myth will live on – and inspire more violence
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of Isil, is dead. Or is he? The truth is we do not really know.
Read More »HSC Senior Fellow: “Pot calling the kettle black” as Saudis accuse Qatar of sponsoring terrorism
HSC Senior Fellow Simon Schofield discusses the Saudi-Qatar rift on France 24.
Read More »The Myth of the “Lone Wolf” Terrorist
In an interconnected world, so-called “lone wolf” jihadists are almost always part of a lethal pack.
Read More »The Daily Telegraph: This was a deliberate attack on our children and our values. Enough is enough
These extremists and these terrorists are an enemy that without hesitation puts explosive vests around their own children. What makes us think they would stop at our own children?
Read More »HSC Director on i24news in wake of London attack
As the net tightens around it in Syria and Iraq, Isil will continue to lash out abroad
As Islamic State loses ground on the battlefield, the group is still capable to lash out abroad.
Read More »Corruption and religious extremism in the Maldives – HSC Director writes in The Daily Telegraph
Islamic extremism is on the rise across south and southeast Asia. There is trouble in paradise.
Read More »Russia has made fake news into a weapon – HSC Director writes in The Telegraph
Julie Lenarz writes in The Daily Telegraph on how Russia uses fake news as weaponised information to undermine the West.
Read More »Trump and The Madman Theory – HSC Director writes in The Telegraph
HSC Director Julie Lenarz writes in The Daily Telegraph how Trump's foreign policy relates to Nixon's Madman Theory
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