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Published in: openSecurityReimagining securityDoes security mean defence: tanks and barbed-wire fences? Or can it mean building relationships, confronting...
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Published in: openSecuritySecurity services should not have carte blancheIt seems obvious that human rights must be compromised to guarantee security in the face of armed violence. Obvious...
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Published in: openSecurityMultilateral nuclear disarmament: it would be a nice idea
The conventional wisdom among nuclear-weapons powers is that their arsenals can only be dismantled multilaterally,...
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Published in: openSecuritySecuritisation not the response to deaths at seaThe European Union has responded to the humanitarian crisis presented by refugee deaths in the Mediterranean—but...
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Published in: openSecurityCrisis in the Mediterranean: Europe must change courseAs leaders of European Union member states prepare to meet to discuss the Mediterranean refugee crisis, the Council...
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Published in: openSecurityWhat the EU must do now to halt this tragedy on its shoresThere are answers to the Mediterranean migrant-deaths crisis. They just require the European Union, whose foreign...
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Published in: openSecurityEurope's war on migrantsThe unending series of mass drownings in the Mediterranean of migrants and refugees are not unfortunate tragedies:...
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Published in: openSecurityA responsible nuclear-armed state?
It may sound like an oxymoron but we need a new global conversation which engages all nuclear-armed states en route...
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Published in: openSecurityEyes wide shut: Commons Defence Committee and UK security policyIt appears self-evident to a key Westminster committee that global insecurity requires a significant upgrade in UK...
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Published in: openSecurityTurkey and Armenia: genocide? what genocide?April 1915 saw the start of the genocide against Armenians and other minorities in the former Ottoman Empire....
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Published in: openSecurityMass surveillance: wrong in practice as well as principleThe paradox of mass state surveillance, as the answer to non-state violence, is that it can overlook the...
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Published in: openSecurityMigrants in the Mediterranean: mourning deaths, not saving livesFor as long as the humanitarian impulse to rescue the desperate and the destitute is trumped by Europe’s focus on...
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Published in: openSecurityKarabakh truce shaken by gunshots and tough talkOSCE mediators urge an end to attacks after a month in which the 20-year-old ceasefire was broken in thousands of incidents.
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Published in: openSecurityIs there reason to hope for Minsk II?The last Minsk agreement on eastern Ukraine failed to bring peace. The latest looks similar—but the context has changed.
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Published in: openSecurityUkraine ceasefire announced at Minsk summit—what next?The ceasefire agreement in Minsk over Ukraine was better than no outcome at all. But only a little better.
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Published in: openSecurityIn Ukraine, NATO has ceased to be an instrument of US foreign policyIn the renewed cold war over Ukraine, while Russia’s economy has been weakened by European sanctions, the US is no...
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Published in: openSecurityEthnicised justice and dealing with the past in ex-YugoslaviaThere was much hope in the international community that the Hague war-crimes tribunal on former Yugoslavia, allied...
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Published in: openSecurityEastern Ukraine: the humanity behind the headlines
The government in Kyiv, aid organisations and the international community must work together to address the...
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Published in: openSecurityThe new cold war Russia (again) won't winThe last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, burst the 25th-anniversary balloon of the symbolic end of the cold war by...
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Published in: openSecurityNATO-Russia: time for a change in direction
NATO’s summit this week offers the opportunity to turn the tide against the re-emergence of the cold war in the...
