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The future of negotiations between the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK, North Korea), South Korea, and the United States over the North’s nuclear program have swung dramatically between warm embraces across an armistice...
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Reconciling Human Rights and Human Security in Countering Terrorism
04 Jan 2017
When countering extremism and terrorism, states face a number of difficult choices and dilemmas. There is a clear need...
Constructions of Terrorism
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Building Value-Base Identity in a Globalized World
21 Dec 2016
Introduction Social and psychological factors concerning group and individual identity are recognised to be critical in creating a cohesive...
Education
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Securing the State – Strategies to counter contemporary terrorism
06 Dec 2016
State of emergency Genuine and meaningful reflection upon counter-terrorism policy involves all in authority being prepared to openly challenge...
Constructions of Terrorism
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How Might Trump Confront Terrorism and Violent Extremism?
24 Nov 2016
In a stunning upset, businessman and former reality television show host Donald J. Trump was elected President of the...
Security, Defense & Terrorism
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Discovering the Voice of Youth on the Happiness Factor
14 Nov 2016
What makes us happy? Does happiness contribute to successful economies, peace, development, a good environment? The United Nations, in...
Children & Young People
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What’s wrong with “signature strikes”?
26 Oct 2016
The United States has increasingly relied on the use of Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPAs) to conduct lethal strikes in...
Security, Defense & Terrorism
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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
