• Every Conversation About the Threat Environment is Important

    Every Conversation About the Threat Environment is Important

    The COVID19 pandemic is the greatest single human tragedy of the internet era. We cannot be certain the end is in sight. The pandemic danger will not end if COVID is finally controlled. Other currently known diseases could surge into pandemics: Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, Nipah Virus, Ebola, swine flu, and yellow fever. As COViD19

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  • Talking to the Taliban

    Talking to the Taliban

    As the Taliban swept across Afghanistan this summer, the capital cities of the provinces fell like a house of cards. Kunduz fell by August 8. Herat, Lashkar Gah, and Helmand followed within a few days. As the news of the collapse of the frenzied Afghan troops in Mazar flashed in the news, I recalled a

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  • CIPS Best Blog Award 2021: Public Voting Now Open

    CIPS Best Blog Award 2021: Public Voting Now Open

    Last year we launched our first ‘Best Blog Award’ competition. While the principal motivations behind the competition were to (a) offer up an engaging experience for you, dear reader and (b) draw some more attention the expertise and hard work of our authors, we also found that by rereading some of the older blogs we

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  • Retrotopian Desires and Gender in Right-Wing Populism

    Retrotopian Desires and Gender in Right-Wing Populism

    Former US President Donald Trump in 2016 justified his plan to build a wall at the United States’ Southern Border to keep out Mexicans (many of whom implied he were rapists). This motif forms part of Trump’s strategy to “Make America Great Again,” in which the myth of a better, more desirable past – ostensibly before

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