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El acercamiento entre los Estados Unidos y Cuba y su amplia repercusión
Publicado el dia 30 de enero 2015 en el Centre of Security Governance El 17 de diciembre pasado, los Estados Unidos y Cuba anunciaron que...
Jan 31, 2015
America’s Chamberlain? Obama and the Challenge of American Power
Neville Chamberlain showing the Anglo-German Declaration to a crowd at Heston Aerodrome on 30 September 1938 If we are honest about our...
Nov 13, 2014
Kazakhstan: Conflict in the Making? —Part Two
This blog was first published by the Centre for Security Governance on 2 October 2014. In the first part of this blog post on Kazakhstan,...
Oct 6, 2014
Kazakhstan: Wildflower Rising from the Steppes! —Part One
On the surface, all seems well in this ethnically, linguistically and religiously diverse country of some 18 million, occupying a space...
Oct 5, 2014
The 2014 NATO Summit: President Putin’s Take
This blog was originally posted on the website of the Centre for Security Governance on 12 September 2014. I have just reread the North...
Sep 12, 2014
A War Too Far: Israel’s Military Campaign in Gaza
This blog originally appeared on the website of the Centre for Security Governance on 28 July 2014. Since its establishment in 1948,...
Jul 28, 2014
The Bear and the Panda: awkward but not impossible strategic bedfellows
Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing on 20 May 2014. This will be the fourth time that the...
May 18, 2014
Corruption’s Posterchild – understanding the challenge to Azerbaijan’s security sector
This is a photo from 2017, showing the Azeri President and his wife whom he has just nominated Vice-President. In 2012, the Organized...
May 14, 2014
First we take Crimea, then we take Brighton Beach (and then Alaska?)
This blog first appeared on the website of the Centre for Security Governance on 1 May 2014. Vladimir Putin’s ideology has three basic...
May 1, 2014
Should Crimea Join the Russian Federation? – this is not such a great idea, and here are some of the
(Map by NBC news) This blog first was first published on the website of the Centre for Security Governance on 13 March 2014. Despite the...
Mar 10, 2014
Scenarios for the World’s Strategic Futures
Scenario-planning is a methodology that can help us think about the different ways the present can became future. This blog looks at four...
Jan 8, 2014
The Best Thing (so far) about the Winter Olympics in Sochi – the release of Khodorkovsky and what it
Mikhail Khodorkovsky at his first press conference after his release from prison. Who knows what the Games may yet bring, but for now...
Dec 28, 2013
SSR and the Crisis in CAR
The Central African Republic (CAR) has been much in the news recently as the security situation has collapsed and gone from bad to worse....
Dec 12, 2013
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