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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Military and security companies profit from European policies exporting border control overseas
This is probably part of the intention of the European Commission… not only to outsource migration control to other...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe EU response to the Libyan crisis: shallow impact with a short-term vision
By securitizing migration, EU leaders have appeared to address the needs of European audiences more than those of...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKCounter-terrorism: new UK strategy must learn obvious lessons
Since 2001, Britain has compromised its passion for the rights of people in the name of counter-terrorism, thereby...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaYou've kept your power, Arab rulers, but at what cost?
Let us never forget that those who make peaceful uprisings impossible will eventually make violent revolution irresistible.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaIn Libya, locals push back against human smuggling
While many Amazigh were marginalized and discriminated against during the Gaddafi era, they are now the vanguard in...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Watching the watchers: the G5 Sahel Force has a human rights problem
If history is a lesson, without a robust human rights framework, international missions are more likely to add to,...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaLibya: damned if we do and damned if we don’t
Given the complex attitudes towards foreign interventions in Libya, we need a clear strategy that stands up to...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe anti-Islamist campaign and Arab democracy
Egyptians, Libyans, Tunisians, and other Arabs deserve better than to be told that they must choose between...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaBrother, where art thou? Libya, spaces of violence and the diffusion of knowledge
The decreasing number of migrants arriving on Italian shores does not mean that the people stopped fleeing...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaCall for submissions: Listening to Libya – Intervention and its aftermath
NAWA seeks to provide a deeper look into Libya by inviting Libyan writers, and readers to submit their thoughts,...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Stop blaming the rescuers
Attacks against rescue efforts in the Mediterranean must stop. The recent Italian and EU proposals are just the last...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaHistorical amnesia and Europe’s migration relations with Libya
Driven by domestic politics and the need to be seen to be doing something, Europe has locked itself in a cycle of...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaWhatever happened to peace? Arms, oil and war by proxy
We're living in a new era of proxy warfare, where multiple powers fund local proxies with disastrous consequences....
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Published in: openDemocracyUKBritain would have been safer with Corbyn in charge
Jeremy Corbyn consistently voted against wars of choice that Britain could have refrained from taking part in, now...
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Published in: digitaLibertiesMethod in Trump’s madness?
A look at Donald Trump’s 'travel bans' with an eye to the harvesting of personal data, and the EU-US Privacy Shield,...
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Published in: HomeThree humanitarian proposals
"The people we rescue are increasingly reporting having been exploited, abused, beaten, kidnapped for ransom or...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaWith a more enterprising Russia, cards are reshuffled in the Arab world
A new power structure is emerging in the Middle East as Russia uses its intervention in Syria to position itself as...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe knockout punch to the Libyan political agreement
If the LPA is not quickly and substantially amended to allow a new executable agreement to be reached, its end will...
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Published in: 50.50Are we all beheaded Copts?
Is the beheading of 21 Egyptian Christians by ISIS in Libya associated with a broader political project of cleansing...
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Published in: digitaLibertiesHidden Warfare 3: Special forces
While Britain’s conventional army is being slashed, Britain’s special forces are benefiting from special treatment....