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Published in: openSecurityObama's human-rights lacuna in struggle against ‘extremism’The US president went on the front foot against fundamentalist violence in the Middle East at a summit in...
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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: 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: openSecurity“Frankly, I don’t think we know who we killed”A drone strike in Somalia highlights how the US is increasingly pursuing a strategy of remote-control warfare.
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Published in: openSecurityThe two big holes in the strategy against ISThe US-led campaign against Islamic State isn’t working. It won’t unless it addresses Shia sectarianism in Iraq and...
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Published in: openSecurityColombia: the year of peace?The unilateral ceasefire signed by the FARC last December is a historic and positive step towards a permanent peace,...
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Published in: openSecurityYemen: descent into anarchyWith the resignation of its president and prime minister, Yemen lacks the capacity to steer its political transition...
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Published in: openSecurityLebanon is cracking under the pressure from Syria and IraqHizbullah's attack today on Israeli forces near the Shebaa Farms area contested by Lebanon highlights how the...
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Published in: openSecurityWhy the fight against Islamic State is not the success we're told it isIs John Kerry right to be so gung-ho about military successes against Islamic State? Not really—as the fundamental...
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Published in: openSecurityFear, rumours and violence: Boko Haram’s asymmetrical warfareWhile the global media were transfixed by the Islamist killings in Paris, Boko Haram was engaging in further...
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Published in: openSecurityHow states can constrain resort to political violenceRecognising there are political elements to any campaign of militant violence makes it less ‘terrifying’ for society...
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Published in: openSecurityDominic Ongwen and the slow-grinding wheels of the International Criminal CourtHe may not be a household name but his eventual trial at the ICC may highlight the long-forgotten victims of the...
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Published in: openSecurityAfter the demonstrations ...The popular outpouring in France, taken with the climate marches in September with which it would not at first be...
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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: openSecurityCharlie Hebdo: how journalism needs to respond to this unconscionable attackThe killings at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo highlight the threat to media workers in a world where free...
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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: openSecurityDeadly cargo: explosive weapons in populated areasIt’s been a year of searing images of horrifying mass civilian injury and death, from Gaza to eastern Ukraine. The...
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Published in: openSecurityWomen raped and enslaved by warped IS codeHannah Arendt would have called it the 'banality of evil'—how Islamic State dresses up medieval misogyny as divine direction.
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Published in: openSecurityPakistan school attack: years of inaction led to this atrocityThe Peshawar atrocity did not come out of a clear blue sky—the foreboding context an inert, corrupt state ambivalent...
