The evolving situation in the Southern Gulf of Mexico raises the question if the area has potential to become a piracy hotspot to the likes of the Gulf of Aden or Gulf of Guinea.
The death of the ISIS leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi was an important symbolic loss, but will not determine the future and power of the group.
Terrorism as a tool to achieve political influence can be effective in short-term, but ineffective for long-term goals.
In states of exception, security objectives often negate human rights, but a human-rights compliant security approach can lead to better outcomes for public safety.
In the Sri Lankan civil war, Tamil women are motivated to join the LTTE due to the suffering caused by state repression – not as simple victims or emancipatory agents.
Resisting exclusionary practices of the UK’s counter-terror strategy, Prevent, is key to destabilising its white supremacist state power and racist logics.
Failing states present favorable conditions for the settlement of terrorist groups but do not necessarily entail a casual link with terrorism.
The response to the question of whether terrorism works depends how the term “terrorism” is defined and what it means for it to “work.”
In the case of CTF sanctions, UN influence over EU sanctions occurs through path dependency and the EU’s commitment to multilateralism and international law.
Neopatrimonialism is the root cause of sectarian division that allows the reproduction of sectarian identity.
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