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16 August 2013
John Horgan takes stock of the successes and failures of global deradicalisation programmes. Terrorist deradicalization. What an intriguing idea for a quick fix if ever there was…
12 August 2013
Andrea Charron explores the UN’s use of sanctions to deal with conflict. Despite the fact that UN sanctions are the most commonly applied tool by the UN Security Council (…
29 July 2013
In a post-Snowden world, surveillance has taken on a new importance in the ongoing public debate about cybersecurity. The revelations that the National Security Agency (NSA)…
10 July 2013
Kristan Stoddart asks what the recent intelligence scandals may mean for policymakers and citizens. In early June 2013 The Washington Post and the Guardian newspapers ran stories…
06 June 2013
Chris Coker argues that we need to be asking questions about the proliferation of killer robots now. There will be one million robots toiling away in Foxconn’s Chinese…
08 May 2013
During graduate school, the community of up and coming scholars who wanted to do policy-relevant research seemed a bit like Fight Club. It was something each of us secretly wanted…
07 April 2013
e-International Relation’s Mark N Katz encourages the US and its allies to act on Syria before the conflict spreads to neighbouring states. Should America help the Syrian…
05 March 2013
In this column Dan G. Cox illuminates the shortcomings and confusion of ‘hybrid warfare’ as a concept. In the summer of 2012 my co-authors and I penned, “Why…
18 February 2013
In this column Robert Murray explores the expansion of the academic study of international relations and usefulness of scholarly ‘expertise’ for media analysis. For…
28 December 2012
In my previous blog post, I wrote about how we often give far too much credence to national leaders in the formulation of state foreign policies. A contingent part of the argument…