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Published in: HomeTo drone or not to drone – a key questionIf al-Qaeda comes under more pressure, it will switch strategies again, which will then make drones irrelevant.
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Published in: HomeLines of descentTo mark one hundred years of aerial bombing, we publish this detailed account of the path that led us from bombing...
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Published in: HomeThe fate of the 9/11 planners and the failure of justice
Guilty verdicts from a military commission in Cuba will do little to correct the impression that America failed to...
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Published in: HomeThe American way of bombing?
‘Signature targets’ are ghostly traces of the ‘target signatures’ that once animated the electronic battlefield....
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Published in: HomeCan Intervention Work? by Rory Stewart and Gerald Knaus: book review
It is possible to walk the tightrope between the horrors of over-intervention and non-intervention. Mary Kaldor...
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Published in: HomeIran and America: components of crisis
Washington's charge that high-level Iranian cadres were planning an attack in the United States signals the real...
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Published in: openSecurityThe United States and Pakistan – beyond the verbal division
The United States and Pakistan engage in a war of words. Iraq to strengthen air sovereignty with the acquisition of...
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Published in: HomeThe drone-war blowback
A greater focus on pilotless armed drones as an instrument of war by the United States and its allies raises...
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Published in: Home‘I am an American’ - filming the fear of difference: a book review
Ten years after 9/11 and counting, Cynthia Weber’s project in ‘filming the fear of difference’ is more than ever...
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Published in: Home9/11: a perfect pretext, a terrible legacy
The tragedy of 11 September 2001 was used by authoritarian forces in the United States as a political opportunity....
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Published in: openSecurityUS and Iraq grapple with US troop deployment extension
US and Iraqi leaders discuss future Status of Forces Agreement for Iraq. Syrian tanks and troops deployed to Homs....
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Published in: HomeGoogle's big idea against extremism needs to learn the important maxim of political violence: "no justice, no peace"?
Google Ideas, Google's think-and-do-tank, wants to combat violent extremism by having extremists and policy makers...
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Published in: openSecurityUS postpones aid payments as Pakistan relations reach new low
Tensions in US-Pakistan relations rise as Washington announces suspension of military assistance. Serbian president...
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Published in: HomeVietnam to Iraq and AfPak: traps of history
The United States's prolonged counterinsurgency wars in Afghanistan and Iraq raise strong echoes of Vietnam. But new...
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Published in: HomeThe freedom cloud
The tools that help Arab democracy protesters also extend the reach of three United States corporations. The power...
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Published in: HomeObama's broken promises
The resumption of trials in Guantanamo and his 'war on whistleblowers' highlight the mismatch between Obama's words...
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Published in: HomeUnsentimental partners: Obama goes south of the border
Obama’s trip to the stable democracies of Brazil, Chile and El Salvador beginning on March 19 is a sign of maturing...
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Published in: HomeA world in movement: prospects for 2011
The influence of rising states amid the infirmity of the United States and other established powers will make 2011 a...
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Published in: HomeThis week's theme: Human Security in practice
Mary Kaldor’s latest book is The Ultimate Weapon is No Weapon: Human Security and the New Rules of War and Peace...
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Published in: oDRTime for the human approachDmitry Medvedev’s proposal for a new post-cold war security order offers a significant opportunity for the world....
