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Published in: HomeUK arms exports: getting it right at homeAs UK delegates head into the final weeks of negotiations at the UN Diplomatic Conference on an Arms Trade Treaty,...
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Published in: HomeThe re-militarisation of South Africa’s borders
Heightened border security has been enforced during international summits and sporting tournaments. This idea of...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKIs the army invading British civil society?UK schoolchildren could soon be trained in army 'values', the London Olympics will take place under military...
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Published in: Shine A LightG4S Olympic fiasco: British soldiers are the ‘people pipeline’ now
Multimillionaire government ministers, close to G4S chief executive Nick Buckles, are a world away from weary...
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Published in: Shine A LightThe UK Border Agency's long, punitive campaign against children (helped by G4S and Serco)The appalling Rochdale sexual abuse scandal prompted long-overdue scrutiny of our children’s homes. Another national...
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Published in: Shine A LightG4S's Buckles is no bungler. Analysis of an interview
Nick Buckles, CEO of G4S, was not the speech-and-thought-challenged buffoon he appeared to be on his...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKDoes the government need new internet surveillance powers?
The UK faces a range of cyber threats to its security – including terrorist cells, child pornography and...
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Published in: openSecurityLike it or not, G4S is securing your world
OurKingdom broke the story that UK police personnel were wearing uniforms with the logo of a private security...
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Published in: openSecurityNATO’s role in the southern Mediterranean: learning lessons from the EU
Keeping a safe distance might actually help the NATO Alliance to rebuild its credibility in the region. As the EU...
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Published in: HomeThe transnational expansion of military urbanism
While military budgets of states are increasingly subject to cuts, the intelligence and weapons industries turn to...
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Published in: openSecurityNATO’s Middle East policy reform: learning from EU failures
In response to Josiah Surface, Andrea Teti argues that NATO must think innovatively about the assumptions...
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Published in: openSecurityDefining NATO partnerships: why the 'Stability' critique is flawed
Stability is a desirable outcome for all parties in the Mediterranean Dialogue. This does not mean returning to the...
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Published in: HomeThe Chicago Summit: a relevant NATO in a post-western world ?
NATO attempts to brush over the original intentions behind the Chicago Summit may prove successful, given an...
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Published in: openSecurityA UN emergency peace service?
The UN system attempts to help in preventing armed conflict and protecting civilians. In the face of overlapping...
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Published in: HomeDisarmament is more practical than we are conditioned to think
As attention shifts to the NATO summit in Chicago, a statement by sixteen non nuclear weapons states, including...
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Published in: HomeInternational intervention and its humanitarian consequences in Libya and beyond: an unresolved issue
Although the intervention in Libya has had some positive effects on the country it finds itself in a humanitarian...
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Published in: openSecurityNATO nuclear weapons and the Defence and Deterrence Posture Review: a non-consensual debate
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany have acknowledged publicly that...
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Published in: openSecurityEurope and NATO's response to the Arab Uprisings
Western governments need to recognize that authoritarian regimes are often fierce but not strong; that privatisation...
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Published in: oDRA case for community policing in RussiaRussian police reform has so far been about centralisation and modernisation. Mark Galeotti suggests that the time...
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Published in: HomeThe politics of mourning
Last April more than 35,000 people marched in Cuernavaca, Mexico, following the murder of a teenager. Four years...
