More: Security
Taking a Stand: Foreign Militaries in the Caspian
It has been almost one year since the IV Caspian Summit in Astrakhan, Russia, where the presidents of the five Caspian states signed a...
A Perfect Cyber Storm: Russia and China Teaming Together
United States intelligence agencies have listed cyber-attacks as the top threat to American national security, ahead of terrorism. These threats are increasing in sophistication,...
THE FSB and SIGINT: Absolute Power at Home and Abroad
The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) should easily be considered one of the most influential and powerful intelligence organizations in the world today. Its...
Confronting the Double-Edged Sword: Turkmenistan’s Collective Security Dilemma
In early July, naval delegations from Russia, Azerbaijan, Iran and Kazakhstan met in St. Petersburg to discuss the idea of a collective security system...
Extreme Right and Islamic Extremists: an evident comparison?
The problems related to security, lack of dialogue between different cultures and religions, as well as the issues relating to mass migrations, are increasingly...
Balochistan: A Case of Forgotten Promises
In Pakistan, political instability and socio-economic factors coupled with uneven resource distribution and weak governance have played their role to fester terrorism and crime...
All Eyes on Me: The Emergence of a Russian Surveillance State
Before analyzing the activities and assessing the ethics of any intelligence organization, it is first necessary to remember that intelligence organizations are secretive by...
The Industrial Spy Game: FSB as Russian Economic Developer
Since the fall of the Soviet Union, the Russian Federation (RF) has sought to reclaim its former glory and regain recognition as a great...
OSCE: Strains and Renewal in the Security Community
On 1 August 2015, the Helsinki Final Act, the birth certificate of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) turned 40. ...
A Caspian Quasi-Khanate: DAESH, Wahhabism, and the Geopolitics of Distraction
In this article I will briefly outline how the history of this region, with its dominant religion of Islam, as well as its poverty...