Intelligence
2019: Towards a new world (dis)order
The
Munich Security Conference is a leading annual forum on international security
and strategy. The theme of its recent installment, The Great Puzzle: Who Will Pick Up...
Central Asian Jihadi Groups Joined Taliban’s “Al-Fath Jihadi Operations”
Al
Qaeda-backed jihadist groups Katibat Imam al Bukhari (KIB), the Islamic Jihad
Union (IJU) and the Turkestan Islamic Party (TIP), consisting mainly of Uzbeks
from the Fergana...
The Russian Mafia
Since 1992, the Russian word Mafyia has
been officially used in the Russian Federation’s documents to refer above all
to organized crime, structured through stable groups...
AI, Foreign Policy, and National Governance Impact: Focus on China
How China’s AI technology exports may lead
to the emergence of new power structures outside the control of existing
governance and accountability frameworks and impact the...
Artificial Intelligence and Nuclear Weapons
Earlier this year, the author had an opportunity to participate in a workshop held under the auspices of SIPRI and the Pathfinder Foundation
concerning the...
Tackling hate speech: Tech companies and world leaders opt for band-aid solutions
There’s a ‘blame the messenger’ quality to global efforts to counter
misinformation, extremism and hate speech by world leaders and technology
companies.
The efforts are informed by...
Want to curb violent attacks? Curb civilisationalism
Decades of Saudi global funding of Sunni Muslim
ultra-conservatism is perceived to have created breeding grounds for radicalism
in Muslim communities even if it was largely...
The State of National Security Education and Beyond: The CFR Educators Workshop 2019
The Council
of Foreign Relations (CFR) has provided leadership, guidance, and a forum for
discussion regarding all matters relating to international relations and
foreign diplomacy. Their flagship
journal,...
Uzbek’s Katibat al Tawhid wal Jihad changed its leader
On April
12, 2019, Central Asia's Salafi-Jihadist group Katibat al Tawhid wal Jihad
(KTJ) issued a statement on the Telegram channel, in which it announced the
resignation...
Illiberals and autocrats unite to craft a new world media order
Underlying global efforts
to counter fake news, psychological warfare and malicious manipulation of
public opinion is a far more fundamental battle: the global campaign by
civilisationalists, autocrats,...