A detailed analysis of the nature of the current and potential threat that the Spanish contingent will have to face in the immediate future is required in the light of increased risks in Spain’s deployment zone in Afghanistan in recent months, the worsening of the conflict in a large part of the country and the intensification of terrorist activity in neighbouring Pakistan.
This paper discusses the concept of global insurgency and deals with the existing canon of COIN theory and case studies. It also looks at the connection between the practice of counterinsurgency and the broader world of politics and war–fighting.
Turkey's occupation of 37% of Cyprus is a protracted legal and political anomaly that the EU is morally obliged to address immediately.
This ARI reviews the evolution of Russia’s stance on Kosovo from the disintegration of the former Republic of Yugoslavia to the NATO bombing of Serbia and the implications of a Kosovar independent State according to the Ahtisaari Plan.
This ARI reviews the recent developments in the UK’s Counter-terrorism policies and the new Prime Minister’s 25 July ‘Statement on Security’ within the wider context of the response to multi-faceted CT challenges.
This analysis concerns Denmark as a potential target for al-Qaeda. It seeks to define and understand the nature of the threat by tracking the historical and current connections between Denmark and al-Qaeda.
This ARI reviews the gestation, evolution and current situation of anti-missile defence in the US, from its Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) to its Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD).
Washington’s decision to deploy the third phase of its global anti-missile defence system in two Eastern European countries is being regarded in Moscow as the most serious external threat to Russia’s security system since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
This ARI analyses where and how the attacks related to al-Qaeda in Iraq take place, as well as which are the preferred targets and the actual victims of this terrorist violence.
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