by Transatlantic Task Force | Dec 6, 2019 | Disruptive Technologies, Research
Terrorism is a complex phenomenon with high uncertainties in user strategy. The uncertain nature of terrorism is a main challenge in the design of counter-terrorism policy. Government agencies (e.g., CIA, FBI, NSA, etc.) cannot always use social media and...
by Transatlantic Task Force | Sep 20, 2019 | Disruptive Technologies, Fighting Organised Crime and Terrorism, Research
Terrorist groups (attackers) always strive to outmanoeuvre counter-terrorism agencies with different tactics and strategies for making successful attacks. Therefore, understanding unexpected attacks (outliers) is becoming more and more important. Studying such attacks...
by Transatlantic Task Force | Jun 24, 2019 | Commentary, Geopolitics & Great Power Politics
Fatih Celenay*, Onur Sultan** Introduction International society has been watching a duel of words and actions between Iran and US since May 2018 when President Trump declared the US would unilaterally withdraw from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) or...
by Transatlantic Task Force | Apr 10, 2019 | Book Review, Geopolitics & Great Power Politics
Dr. Seth A. Johnston, John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2017, ISBN 9781421421988 (pbk.: alk. paper) Dr. Seth Johnston’s “How NATO Adapts” is first and foremost a book about NATO’s history. It explains changes in NATO’s strategy and organisation – terms...
by Transatlantic Task Force | Mar 26, 2019 | Commentary, Events & Activities, Geopolitics & Great Power Politics
A couple of decades ago, one of the favourite phrases of former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was “it’s a funny world”. It is true that we live in a very funny world today. Couple of years ago, British academic, Tim Gartner Ashton said “If we could whip in a...
