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Published in: openSecurityPakistan: the decade of dronesDrones may offer an appealing alternative to the US after Iraq and Afghanistan but they don’t provide genuine security.
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Published in: openSecurityDroning onLittle is clear about the US renewal of drone strikes in Pakistan—except that they won’t be the last.
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Published in: openSecurityJonathan faces the northAfter two months in the global spotlight, the insurgency in northern Nigeria is fast turning into a national...
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Published in: openSecurityThe securitisation of dissent and the spectre of GeziAt the weekend police fired teargas at demonstrators in Istanbul, attempting to enter Taksim Square to mark the...
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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: 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: openSecurityEgypt: painting “terrorism” with a very broad brushWith the mass trials in Egypt of Muslim Brotherhood members in the media spotlight, behind the scenes authorities...
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Published in: openSecurityAdams: peacemaker or paramilitary?The arrest of the decades-long leader of the 'republican movement' in Northern Ireland, Gerry Adams, has provoked...
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Published in: openSecurityAutodefensas: the solution to Mexico's drug problem?Illegal drug trafficking is deeply embedded in Mexico. Collusion between the state and ‘self-defence’ groups is not,...
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Published in: openSecurityPakistan’s authoritarian moveThe government in Islamabad will face opposition in the coming week to its Protection of Pakistan Ordinance. Is it...
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Published in: openSecurityStill searching for justice: victims in Sri LankaFive years on from the end of the civil war in Sri Lanka, the international community’s patience with the government...
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Published in: openSecurityBritish citizen, British justice?
The British home secretary can deprive of their citizenship individuals whose presence in the UK she deems “not...
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Published in: openSecurityYemen’s troubled transitionIn Yemen a transition towards a new political dispensation is threatened by Islamist violence, drone strikes,...
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Published in: openSecurityUkraine: what next?There was a way out of the Ukraine crisis this week, through dialogue and accommodation. But the regime, backed by...
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Published in: openSecurityLeaning on judges: eroding the rule of law in EuropeToo often across Europe, the rule of law is not being observed, as thousands of European Court of Human Rights...
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Published in: openSecurityPakistan: prospects poor for Taliban talks
The announcement of talks between Islamabad and representatives of the Pakistan Taliban surprised many. Few will...
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Published in: openSecurityMurder and Mexico’s security dilemmaWhy is Mexico mired in organised, drug-related murder? In an extreme case of security dilemmas increasingly familiar...
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Published in: openSecurityMaking UK citizens non-persons
Last week at Westminster, the home secretary introduced a late amendment to an immigration-control bill which would...
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Published in: openSecurityYemen’s future: like Tunisia or Libya?The recent conclusion of the National Dialogue Conference in Yemen might seem to point to progress in that fractured...
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Published in: openSecurityBritain, Turkey and trading human rights for 'counter-terrorism'openSecurity was inspired by a 2005 conference in Madrid on the anniversary of the Atocha station bombings, marked...
