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Published in: openSecurityPrivate security's new accountability regime?The professionalisation of entrepreneurs in violence into a legitimate 'private security' industry provokes profound...
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Published in: openSecurityEurope's Middle East policies: a southern European twist
More coordination and strategy are needed in Europe's response to the sinister signs of stolen revolution. The...
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Published in: HomeNo going back
Only recently, we were the world’s worst failed state. Look at us today.
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Published in: openSecurityFighting for the high groundWhile the Baha Mousa inquiry "may have shone a torch into a dark corner", what is now before the court is more like...
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Published in: openSecurityViolence and democracy in Syria
Is it possible in such a situation to face the threat of foreign intervention and yet make internal democratic...
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Published in: openSecurityConflict at the EU's southern borders: the Sahel crisis
Gradually, EU systems of governance have extended into the southern Mediterranean, linking dynamics in the Sahel...
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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: openSecurityIn militias we trust: Libya's conundrum
The rapid disintegration of Muammar al Gaddafi’s armed forces and police meant that the militias born out of the...
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Published in: HomePakistan’s existential crisisWith sectarian tensions, weak institutions and yet another political crisis possibly in the making, the situation in...
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Published in: Shine A LightWhen business and the state co-opt ‘independent’ civil society
How can charities and community organisations provide effective advocacy when they are agents of the state or...
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Published in: Shine A LightTen reasons to vote for G4S as the World's Worst Company
The infamous Public Eye award wants your vote on the company that most deserves naming and shaming. Activists from...
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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: openSecurityThe year of not living dangerously
ETA's 2011 ceasefire was a historic marker for the 40-plus year struggle. As the group struggles for political...
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Published in: openSecurityAfter Doha: rejecting dystopia by default
Fear and insecurity is filling the void left by our governments' inaction on climate change. But framing Climate...
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Published in: openSecurityDeath in school in the post 9/11 America
The Newtown school shooting has re-awakened debates not only on gun control and mental illness, but also on the role...
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Published in: openSecurityThe root cause of green on blue attacks
The draw down of international troops in Afghanistan was predicated on ISAF building a relationship with Afghan...
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Published in: openSecurityWhen soldiering gets sexy: the militarization of gender equality and sexual differenceUp in Arms continues to track the figure of the soldier in contemporary culture as a consequence of NATO’s wars. How...
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Published in: openSecurityInfatuation and the US Army
To a large extent Petraeus, four star general and chief spy, was a political and media invention. Take a closer look...
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Published in: openSecurityNeoliberalism in the American military and its impact on civilians
Over the past 30 years, American culture has increasingly drawn from the military model. Now, as even military...
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Published in: openSecurityTwo weeks of heat in the east of DR Congo
As the deadline for M23 to leave Goma passes, a peacebuilder from South Kivu looks at the fallout of the past two...
