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Published in: openSecurityProhibiting autonomous weapons systemsThey have been dubbed ‘killer robots’. Concerted international action is needed to prevent the emergence of weapons...
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Published in: openSecurityTrident: weak defenceThe Conservative-led government of austerity Britain is facing the sacrifice of its sacred cow of high military...
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Published in: openSecurityHow Israeli high-tech firms are outfitting the US-Mexico border
American academic and corporate knowhow and Mexican low-wage manufacturing are to fuse with Israel’s border and...
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Published in: openSecurityPakistan’s 21st amendment: national consensus or soft coup?The attack on the school in Peshawar in December shocked the world. In Pakistan, the upshot is a growing military...
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Published in: openSecurityA permanent infrastructure for permanent war
America's 35-year-long strategy of dotting the Middle East with military bases, large and small, is one of the...
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Published in: openSecurityMexico: student disappearances focus anger at abuse and impunity
Students shot dead by police, others “disappeared”, mass graves located … the absence of the rule of law and...
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Published in: openSecurityCan NATO be saved from strategic obscurity?
Despite a renewed sense of purpose with a change in leadership and the crisis in Ukraine, the alliance continues to...
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Published in: openSecurityEgypt: time to end the diplomatic farceMany Egyptians are smarting from the betrayal of their revolution while the military-backed regime tightens its...
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Published in: openSecurityWhy are police becoming more like soldiers?Militarisation of the police is a developing phenomenon, spreading into nominally democratic societies as the bonds...
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Published in: openSecurityFrom cops to counterinsurgents: the militarization of America's police
Welcome to a new era of American policing, where cops increasingly see themselves as soldiers occupying enemy territory.
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Published in: openSecurityQuiet legacies and long shadows: the Obama era of counterterrorism in the Sahel-SaharaDespite the crumbling facade of its interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan, America is preparing for a new century of...
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Published in: openSecurityThe Fourth Branch: the rise of the national security state
Though the US may be finally addressing some of the fictions propping up its security policies, the question...
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Published in: openSecurityDrones in Afghanistan—under the radarDrones in Afghanistan have been responsible for countless civilian casualties. That’s the problem—they’re countless.
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Published in: openSecurityArrested democracy: why Thailand needs a new social contractThe Thai military may think its May takeover has run smoothly but authoritarian dictates and an elite power monopoly...
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Published in: openSecurityAn ambiguous role: NATO in the ArcticConditions in the Arctic in the 21st century come complete with territorial claims and lucrative opportunities. What...
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Published in: openSecurityThe national security blindspot in Colombia's FOI law
A new transparancy law guarantees Colombian citizens greater access to information on public spending, but...
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Published in: openSecurityNATO: slipping into confrontation
Russia's moves into Crimea have sparked almost reflexive predictions of a new cold war. But NATO members once again...
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Published in: openSecurityArbitrary detention, once again, in ThailandIf madness is doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting a different outcome, the authors of Thailand’s twelfth...
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Published in: openSecurityBoko Haram: completing the circle of liberal interventionism?Clarion calls on social media for action in Africa have once again become an excuse to flex military muscle, as the...
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Published in: openSecurityHigh speed silk roads: the birth of a Eurasian century
No amount of US "pivoting" can prevent the emergence of a multipolar, multi-powered world along a Eurasian axis that...
