by Anne Speckhard | May 22, 2019 | Commentary, Geopolitics & Great Power Politics
Anne Speckhard* & Ardian Shajkovci** The sound of an explosion echoed through the Green Zone on Sunday (May 19, 2019) night around 9:00 p.m., a reminder that this most secure part of the Iraqi capital is not, in fact, all that safe. The projectile appears...
by Anne Speckhard | Mar 6, 2019 | Commentary, Fighting Organised Crime and Terrorism, Terrorism, Conflict and War
By Anne Speckhard*, Ardian Shajkovci** Unmanned and remote-controlled aircrafts, i.e. drones, continue to change the character of contemporary warfare.[i] It was satellites and drones, alongside a good deal of human intelligence, that located Osama bin Laden...
by Anne Speckhard | Jan 11, 2019 | Commentary, Radicalisation & Polarisation, Terrorism, Conflict and War
By Anne Speckhard*, Ardian Shajkovci** and Hamid Sebaly*** At a recent counterterrorism conference held by the International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism in Brussels, Belgium, a seven-year-old’s words touched the issues currently pressing upon the heart...
by Anne Speckhard | Dec 15, 2018 | Radicalisation & Polarisation, Research, Terrorism, Conflict and War
Anne Speckhard* & Ardian Shajkovci** It is often argued that prisons may accelerate the process of radicalization by virtue of having vulnerable prisoners isolated from mainstream society under circumstances in which they may be potentially exposed to virulent...
by Anne Speckhard | Nov 30, 2018 | Commentary, Radicalisation & Polarisation, Terrorism, Conflict and War
By Anne Speckhard*, Ardian Shajkovci** During its heyday, ISIS and other militant groups attracted 40,000 foreign fighters in an unprecedented migration of men, women, and children to the battlegrounds of Syria and Iraq. Now, with the near territorial defeat of ISIS...
