Welcome to openSecurity Analysis, our new monthly column: a rotating space dedicated to providing in-depth understanding of key contemporary security issues. In counterpoint to our ongoing coverage of contemporary events, these essays aim to shed light on fundamental trends and the latest developments. The column which poses and analyses our question of the month is shared by members of our Advisory Board, Mariano Aguirre, Ivan Briscoe, Derek Gregory and Mark Taylor.
Mariano Aguirre is the director of the Norwegian Peacebuilding Resource Centre (Noref) in Oslo.
Ivan Briscoe is the Senior Researcher in Governance at the Conflict Research Unit, Clingendael Institute of International Affairs in The Hague.
Derek Gregory is the Peter Wall Distinguished Professor, University of British Columbia in Vancouver.
Mark Taylor is Senior Researcher at the Fafo Institute for Applied International Studies in Oslo and founding member of the Center for American Progress’ Just Jobs Network.
What should be the
international approach to resolving the Syrian crisis, and does diplomacy or
military aid to the rebels offer a better chance of progress? Mariano Aguirre
responds to the criticisms of Why openSecurity?
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Shock and Awe
Lest we forget
Cities in Conflict
openSecurity looks in the Iraq archive
M23 in Goma: who's resourcing the conflict?
Pakistan and Afghanistan into 2014
oS Analysis: Syria's crisis
Mariano
Aguirre, on why force would intensify the conflict.
Steven
Heydemann and Reinoud Leenders disagree, urging the need for a credible
threat.
Mariano
Aguirre responds to their criticisms,and Robert Matthews warns of the decades-long consequences of militarization.
Mariano Aguirre, on why force would intensify the conflict.
Steven Heydemann and Reinoud Leenders disagree, urging the need for a credible threat.
Mariano Aguirre responds to their criticisms,and Robert Matthews warns of the decades-long consequences of militarization.
openSecurity analysis
Security and the far right
Following the publication of the winning recommendations of a “Your ideas, your NATO” policy workshop on the Arab Spring, openSecurity hosts a debate on NATO.
G4S: securing whose world?
