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Government endeavours In Mali to implement security and anti-terrorism policies
K. Sidibé / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2012
State structures in Northern Mali are weak to non-existent, with a virtual absence of state administration in some areas, low presence of security services and checkpoints, inadequately equipped armed forces, and lack of logistics.&nb...
Is Yemen in danger of becoming a 'failed state'?
G. Hill / Chatham House [Royal Institute of International Affairs], UK, 2008
Yemen is the poorest nation in the Arab world, its location means it acts as a buffer zone between the Horn of Africa and Saudi Arabia and its president’s thirty year reign has been recently been struggling with a deteriorating ...
Is domestic instability the determing cause of international terrorism?
N. Campos; M. Gassebner / Institute for the Study of Labor, Bonn, 2009
The events of 9/11 caused a major shift in donor behaviour. The securitisation of aid, as it was termed, saw governments prioritise security issues over strict development concerns. As such Overseas Development Assistance (ODA) was pr...
Emerging risks: significant drivers in the 21st century
International Futures Programme, OECD, 2003
This report is concerned with those risks that affect the systems on which society depends – health, transport, environment, telecommunications, etc. Five categories of such risks are addressed: natural disasters, industria...
Youth and radicalisation
O. Roy / Microcon, 2008
In recent years there has been a strong focus on ‘Islamic radicalisation’ in Europe, due both to the threat of terrorism and its security implications, and to the issue of integrating second generation migrants in Europe. ...
How does aid and foreign policy impact on civil society in Afghanistan?
J. Howell; J. Lind / Centre for Civil Society, LSE, 2008
Afghanistan has become the first theatre in which the USA’s seemingly contradictory goals of the War on Terror and the promotion of liberal democracy and free markets are being played out to their full. This paper examines the i...
Domestic terrorism with transnational ambitions
A. Botha / Institute for Security Studies, South Africa, 2008
International developments and challenges and domestic circumstances predominately fuel domestic terrorism. This is particularly true when assessing the 'renewed' threat of terrorism in Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia. This monograph pla...
How effective is the Taliban's use of propaganda?
International Crisis Group, 2008
This paper discusses the conflict in Afghanistan with a specific focus on the Taliban and their propaganda mechanism. It also looks at the current situation with regards to Afghanistan’s political landscape before proposing reco...
The impact of history on current peacebuilding efforts
A.S. Tuminez / Southeast Asia Research Centre, City University, Hong Kong, 2008
With a focus on the Philippines, this paper looks at the quest for peace and the impact of the past. It asks what the roots of conflict in Mindanao are, the American role in creating the problem, the role of counter-terrorism, and wha...
Current threats to global human security
A. Mack (ed); Z. Nielsen; T. Cooper / Human Security Centre, 2008
Western governments often cite the threat of Islamic terrorism to justify national security concerns, legislature and expenditure. However, is the threat from such insurgents as real  or increasing as they suggest? ...
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