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On 23 February 2018, the EU hosted the International High Level Conference on the Sahel in Brussels, to mobilize additional resources for the new joint military of the G5 Sahel countries – the G5...
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Securing Cyberspace: The Emergence of Organised Cybercrime
05 Oct 2016
Online activities have now become central to the very way in which millions of people across the world live...
Transnational Crime & Security
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Counter-Terrorism, Soft-Power, and Donald Trump
20 Sep 2016
During the already historically long United States Presidential campaign, Republican Candidate Donald J. Trump has offered several controversial stratagems...
Security, Defense & Terrorism
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Local difficulties? – The G20 confronts de-globalisation
20 Sep 2016
Earlier this month the world’s leading politicians and their entourages descended on the eastern Chinese of city of Hangzhou...
Global Economy
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VAT: the tempo increases …
14 Sep 2016
In preparation for the implementation of Value Added Tax (VAT) across the GCC in the near future, the first...
Economy
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Small States’ Strategic Hedging for Security and Influence
14 Sep 2016
Small states are hard to define, yet the study of them persists because of agreement on their existence, importance...
Foreign Policy & International Relations
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Moral Education for Sustainable Futures
30 Aug 2016
Moral education will be on the class schedule of students in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) starting 2016-2017 academic...
Education
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Chinese Foreign Policy and Domestic Factors
24 Aug 2016
Chinese foreign policy under the presidency of Xi Jinping has been increasingly controversial, confident and engaged in both the...
Foreign Policy & International Relations
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Understanding the Importance of Education for Security
17 Aug 2016
In the 2007 film, Charlie Wilson’s War, part of the story line is ability of the USA congressman, Charles...
Peace & Security
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The new bio hazard – Emerging trends in cybercrime
02 Aug 2016
Leading cyber security professionals across the world are coming to terms with the uncomfortable truth that private bio-medical data...
Transnational Crime & Security
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Daesh in Europe: From Caliphate to Transnational Terror Threat
02 Aug 2016
TRENDS, in cooperation with ICSR, King’s College, London recently organized a conference titled “ISIS in Europe”, held in London...
Constructions of Terrorism
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Preventing the Nice Attack: Learning from Historical Experience
27 Jul 2016
After a terrorist killed 84 people in a horrific attack on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice on 14...
Security, Defense & Terrorism
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Assessing the Terrorist Threat in the United States
27 Jul 2016
In the last two years, the United States has experienced several deadly shootings by those who have professed allegiance...
Constructions of Terrorism
