Tag: Terrorism & Insurgency
42 Articles
- Global Governance
Street Truth and Desk Truth
This was the center of a week-long trip to the Philippines as a new Trustee of The Asia Foundation, the US non-profit that works to promote civic improvement in Asia. We started…
May 15, 2020
- Conflict & Security
Nationalist Underpinnings of Turkey’s Damaging “Kurdish” Policy
Nationalist histories are deliberate and ideological narrations of joys, fears, and hopes that a collective shares. They are deliberate because, as Benedict Anderson put it,…
January 27, 2020
- Conflict & Security
False Positives in Thai Counterinsurgency
The insurgency began in January 2004. It currently involves three-and-a-half Muslim-Malay majority provinces in southern Thailand and has exacted a heavy human cost—roughly 7…
November 15, 2019
- Conflict & Security
The South Caucasus Factor of the United States-Russia-Iran Triangle
Moscow officially intervened in Syria in September 2015 to prevent “terrorists” from coming to Russia and staging attacks; in Moscow’s narrative, “thousands” of…
September 16, 2019
- Conflict & Security
The Arms Trade and Syria
The Syrian Civil War represents one of the deadliest ongoing conflicts in the world. All parties to the conflict have leveraged an array of conventional weapons — as well as…
September 2, 2019
- Conflict & Security
Preventing Violent Extremism at a Crossroads
As the report rightly notes, exorbitant funding has been earmarked to pursue counterterrorism and P/CVE objectives. Since 2001, the United States has spent an estimated .9…
June 27, 2019
- Conflict & Security
Part II: (Un)Accountability for Torture
Public Reputational Accountability Gaps and Failures “The category of public reputational accountability,” Keohane asserts, “is meant to apply to situations in which…
June 20, 2019
- Conflict & Security
Part I: (Un)Accountability for Torture
With the nomination and eventual appointment of Gina Haspel to the directorship of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), debates around the legality and the morality of the…
June 17, 2019
- Conflict & Security
Tunisia’s Fraying Governing Coalition Threatens to Undermine CVE/CT Strategy
A Deficient Approach to CVE/CT The Tunisian government’s existing CVE/CT policy has often focused on heavy-handed law enforcement tactics. It has closed mosques and removed…
December 19, 2018
- Conflict & Security
Trump’s Drone Policy: The Continuation of a Legacy
After he won the presidency, journalists speculated that Trump was looking to expand upon, and revitalize, Obama’s drone policy. According to The New York Times, Trump has…
June 14, 2018