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Published in: openSecurity“Terrorism” and the US-led global order“Terrorism” has become a formulaic term in political discourse, often deployed as a device sustaining a US informal...
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Published in: openSecurityBurundi, une démocratisation génératrice de violenceLa communauté internationale a indirectement contribué à faire du Burundi une démocratie de façade, aujourd’hui en...
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Published in: openSecurityBurundi: a democratisation from which violence may stem
The international community has indirectly contributed to making Burundi a facade democracy, now prey to a political...
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Published in: openSecurityTrapped by borders, a global flotsam and jetsamThey arrive nameless and unnumbered by land or sea but ever-more unregulated migrants across the globe are falling...
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Published in: openSecurityThe conflict horizonThe last two decades have seen a growing global appetite for peace but unless concerted, informed action is taken...
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Published in: openSecurityBoko Haram: time for an alternative approachMilitary responses to Boko Haram have proved ineffective, as the latest atrocities in Nigeria highlight. An...
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Published in: openSecurityHow human rights went globalAttempts to assuage conflicts around the world using the language of human rights are sometimes met with rebuttals...
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Published in: openSecurityThe new Russian power blocA quarter century after Mikhail Gorbachev supervised the collapse of Europe’s cold-war division, a world of new...
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Published in: openSecurityNegotiating with the Taliban
No one should expect progress in Afghanistan anytime soon, enmeshed as it is in a complex web of interaction among...
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Published in: openSecurityObama, Saudi Arabia and “anti-terrorism”
Last week the US president, Barack Obama, visited Saudi Arabia. Fighting extremism, the crisis in Syria, and Iran's...
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Published in: openSecurityVenezuela: taking the counter- out of revolutionVenezuela is politically polarised and so is much of the coverage of it. But just as the violence is now...
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Published in: openSecurityStriking behaviour: Chinese workers discover a weapon against labour-market turmoilIn theory, workers in China are promised security through official trade union representation and the rule of the...
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Published in: openSecurityAre conflict minerals making war less profitable?
What's up with conflict minerals? Is the global economy ready for regulation that targets the economies of warlords...
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Published in: openSecurityDeals with the devil
Talk of a pact with criminals is beyond the pale in Mexico’s presidential election campaign. But the tentative...
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Published in: HomeMilitary intervention and Syria
From the Cold War onwards there is a long trail of misery stemming from military solutions to intricate situations...
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Published in: HomeThe dream of "managing militarization" in Syria
What should be the international approach to resolving the Syrian crisis, and does diplomacy or military aid to the...
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Published in: HomeSyria's crisis: a credible threat is what is needed
The escalation of regime violence is not a response to the rise of an armed opposition, but the reaction of the...
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Published in: openSecuritySyria's crisis: weapons vs negotiations
A strong momentum is building for armed intervention in Syria, either by channelling arms to Syria's rebels or...
