Ataa Dabour
January 1, 2021
Counter-Extremism, Global Governance and Human Rights, Latest Articles, Uncategorized
To adapt our security response to hybrid wars and to ensure the safety of our citizens, it appears necessary for many strategists to unify civil and military counterinsurgency, to give a greater role to civilians in defense and security fields, to work in close collaboration with different sectors and combining capabilities, as well as to choose technologically driven solutions.
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Mette Kaalby Vestergaard
December 29, 2020
Counter-Extremism, Latest Articles, Sub-Saharan Africa
Developing peacefully compared to some of its African neighbors in the 1990s, Mozambique was considered by many to be a bastion of continental progress. However, November 2020 witnessed a horrific attack which led to the beheading of over 50 people by Islamist militants. This assault was the most serious incident yet in a Jihadist campaign that has been waged in the north of the country over the last three years.
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Irena Baboi
December 22, 2020
Europe, Global Governance and Human Rights, Latest Articles, Security and Defence
In the Western Balkans, the Biden administration has all the tools necessary to achieve successful political and economic transformation. The newly-elected POTUS has a deep understanding of the region, and is all too aware that the carrot and the stick are more effective when there is agreement and mutual support between the European Union and the United States.
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Luke Austin
December 16, 2020
Asia and Pacific, Latest Articles, Security and Defence
Despite the storm of attention generated by the regeneration of Japan's hard power capabilities under Shinzo Abe, the concept of 'soft balancing' may provide a better theoretical approach to understanding Japan's approach to international relations
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Jessica Honan
December 8, 2020
Global Governance and Human Rights, Latest Articles
In order to ensure detained belligerents in conflicts are treated in accordance with principles of International Humanitarian Law, legal accountability mechanisms need to be strengthened to hold States to humane standards.
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Oliver Hegglin
November 26, 2020
Africa, Latest Articles, Security and Defence
While many assessments in the days after the coup in August foresaw instability in the region, no doubt due to the similarities seen in 2012, no increased instability, whether in Mali nor the greater Sahel region, has happened so far.
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Jack Davies
November 24, 2020
Europe, Latest Articles, Russia and Eurasia, Security and Defence, Uncategorized
There has been a tendency among researchers and policy-makers studying the evolution and deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles, referred to colloquially as drones, to discount their contemporary effectiveness in inter-state conflict. However, the recent conflict in and around the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh has in some ways challenged that assumption
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Hamish Cruickshank
November 20, 2020
Europe, Latest Articles, Security and Defence, Uncategorized
While Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania have sought to pull themselves out of Russia’s orbit and entrench themselves as Western, European states, Moscow has sought to influence and destabilise this process.
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Luke Austin
November 14, 2020
Asia and Pacific, Latest Articles, Security and Defence
There has been extensive discussion of the challenges faced by Japan’s new Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga. One major issue facing Suga which has not been analysed in depth is the ongoing territorial dispute between Russia and Japan concerning the ownership of the southern Kuril Islands.
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Mette Kaalby Vestergaard
November 10, 2020
Africa, Global Governance and Human Rights, Latest Articles, Security and Defence
The legal debate around the position of civilians in the combatant landscape can both have consequences for the rights of the individuals in question, and also for the legitimacy of the intervention by Western forces in the Sahel.
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