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Russian Spetsnaz – Ukraine’s Deniable ‘Little Green Men’
In February 2013 the influential Moscow based ‘Military Industrial Courier’, published an article by Russia’s Chief of the General Staff, army General Valery Gerasimov....
Jihadi Janes and Johns: The Seduction of the Islamic State for ‘Westerners’
Media outlets and government circles cringe when trying to understand why Westerners leave the West to go fight in Syria and Iraq with the...
The Metrics: Reload. How much from online activism to actual manifestation?
Social movements are usually understood as a positive aspect of democracy and international community takes kindly to the use of media – especially social...
EU vs. Google: When Goliath Pretends to be David
The European Commission has opened a formal investigation into Google to ascertain whether or not the company’s operating system, applications, and services have breached...
The Domino Effect at the South of the Border — A Geopolitical Scenario
Background It is December 2017. In six months, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto is about to leave office. After the Marihuana regularization revolution,...
Crisis Briefing: Restless South Sudan
South Sudan with capital Juba is a country in northeastern Africa. Young state has a population over 11 million people with diverse ethnicity of...
The Middle Eastern Metternichs of Riyadh
Gaming the demise of the Saudi monarchy has been a flourishing industry on the think-tank circuit for the past dozen years. Not long ago...
“Top Secret” Turkey is No Secret
In 2013, Turkey hosted about a dozen conferences on cyber security and new technologies to counter cyber threats. In a speech at the end...
Boko Haram: new strategy and perspectives
The 2015 Baga massacre, perpetrated last January by Boko Haram, can be perceived as a sign of the will of the terrorist organization to...
Talking to terrorists
An interview with Anne Speckhard "This is an account, spanning over a decade, of what happens when you do just that. Traveling through the...