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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...
Tell Priti Patel: Stop your attack on journalistic freedom
Journalists who share leaks of official information should not face life imprisonment for doing their job
