Archive for 2013

The Future of Geospatial Technologies in Securing Cyberspace

Connor Lattimer • Aug 3 2013 • Essays

Shifts in the threat of crime mean that in the future, cyberspace will be as dangerous as the physical battlefield. Can geospatial technologies de-problematize the ‘cyber’?

Review – Somalia: The New Barbary?

Abdi Ismail Samatar • Aug 3 2013 • Features

Unfortunately, Murphy’s book is a neo-colonial rendering of piracy: neither a worthy introduction to piracy and Islam in Somalia, nor does it provide new material or analysis for the trained eye.

Counterinsurgency: The Graduate Level of War or Pure Hokum?

Gian Gentile • Aug 3 2013 • Articles

The US Army’s counterinsurgency manual calls COIN the “graduate level of war.” But, the idea that enlightened soldiers were required to win a war is hokum.

Women’s Water Woes: Privatization and Reinforcement of Gender Inequality

Michele Cantos • Aug 2 2013 • Essays

The privatization and commoditization of water involves complex distributional choices that disproportionately impact women and girls living in slums and informal settlements.

Lost in Translation? Importing the English School to America

Alan Klæbel Weisdorf • Aug 2 2013 • Articles

Robert Murray’s edited collection ‘System, Society and the World’ illustrates the value of a pluralist approach under the umbrella of English School research.

Review – Insurgency in Chechnya and the North Caucasus

Elizabeth Austin • Aug 2 2013 • Features

Schaefer delves into the breadth and depth of the Chechen-Russian conflict using his military expertise to offer a detailed examination of the conflict.

Nasserism and Ba’thism: Modern, Contingent, Confused, and Instrumental

Michael Bolt • Aug 2 2013 • Essays

Fred Halliday’s assessment that nationalist movements in the Middle East are deeply complex affairs appears to be accurate under examination.

Regional International Societies, the Polysemy of Institutions and Global International Society

Filippo Costa Buranelli • Aug 1 2013 • Articles

The regional agenda of the English School has so far neglected the polysemy of institutions within international society, which in turn relies on a distinction between norms and rules.

Creating Balance in Reconstruction States

Kenneth C Upsall • Aug 1 2013 • Essays

A successful transition from post-conflict society to developing state requires balancing punitive justice with the need for the conflicting parties to reconcile their differences.

UN Sanctions and Conflict

Andrea Charron • Aug 1 2013 • Articles

The automatic dismissal of sanctions as pointless and ineffective obscures a basic fact: sanctions are only as good as the efforts of member states to give them effect.

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