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Published in: openSecuritySri Lanka’s twin challengesThe Commonwealth heads of government meeting in Colombo was the occasion for renewed demands that the state account...
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Published in: openSecurityBeyond enemy images: politics and the Other – a retrospective
Jeffrey Stevenson Murer reflects on openSecurity's collection of articles, which have explored the creation of the...
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Published in: HomeConflict and narrative
It's being painted in small, nervous brushstrokes now, but if the 3,000 or so people in attendance at the Combatants...
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Published in: openSecurityWake up calls: why aren't we up yet?
The bombings in Boston brought to mind familiar images from past American tragedies and its wars abroad. But why are...
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Published in: HomeHow the clash between Islamism and Zionism not only affects the Middle East but also the west
The author in his latest book, Dangerous Liaisons: The Clash between Islamism and Zionism (2013), contends that the...
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Published in: openSecurityThe desert's fertile soil: threats of instability still growing in the north
Claims of a French victory in Mali assume that groups aimed at an Islamic state. But western intervention in another...
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Published in: openSecurityNuclear weapons, basketball diplomacy and war in Korea
While North Korea's nuclear threats towards the US remain in the realm of the absurd, the government's latest...
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Published in: openSecurityToxic images or imaging the otherIn the aftermath of the Toulouse killings of March 2012, the French state projected a set of 'toxic images' clearly...
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Published in: openSecurityPlaying chicken with the Islamic Republic
Threats of attack and sanctions have proven to be a double-edged sword, inflicting real damage on both the Iranian...
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Published in: openSecurityNuclear assurances: when a fatwa isn’t a fatwa
Ayatollah Khamenei issued a fatwa forbidding the production, stockpiling and use of nuclear weapons. What does its...
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Published in: openSecuritySplit of a soul: when politics shoots at culture
The 2011 referendum granting South Sudan independence served as a decisive verdict on the history of decades-long...
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Published in: HomeResisting the other of the ‘war on terror’: lessons from Japanese internment camps?
Though intended to be temporary in nature, Agamben argues that the ‘state of exception’ has become a permanent...
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Published in: openSecurityJoycean nightmares, Parnellite politics, and the Northern Irish riots
Attributing the violence associated with Northern Ireland's 'flag riots' to the peace process itself is a...
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Published in: HomeAlgeria, Mali: another front in the “Global War on Terror”?What the Islamist terrorist threat has become is an incoherent pretext to intervene militarily on the part of the...
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Published in: openSecurityThe creation of an unbridgeable divide
Syria's civil war is now strongly characterised by militias identifying along sectarian lines. The growing divide...
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Published in: HomeIsrael in trouble: review of The Gatekeepers, by Dror MorehAs Israelis go the polls on 22 January, Israeli democracy is in real trouble. At least that’s the message from a...
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Published in: openSecurityIran and the repercussions of US policymaking
Western analysts often and articulately point out why the United States fears Iran. But what does Iran have against...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWhat do we mean by Islamism?
The British media and political landscape have done much to obscure a proper in-depth understanding of Islamism, the...
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Published in: openSecurityBreaking the vicious circle - reconciliation in OSCE areas
Work must be done to overcome divides even many decades after official agreements to end violence have been signed....
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Published in: openSecurityViolence, space and memory in the new Northern Ireland
Violence in Belfast in September and December 2012 bears witness to the collision of the 'old' and the 'new'. As...
