by Anne Speckhard | Mar 6, 2019 | Commentary, Fighting Organised Crime and Terrorism
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 Transatlantic Task Force | Mar 1, 2019 | Commentary, Geopolitics & Great Power Politics
Defence Ministers of NATO members discussed pressing security challenges in Brussels between 13-15 February 2019, prior to annual Munich Security Conference. Defence Minister of the Republic of North Macedonia Radmila Sekerinska, attended NATO defence ministerial...
by Ishaan Tharoor | Feb 27, 2019 | Commentary, Geopolitics & Great Power Politics, Peace & Conflict Management
If you followed certain Indian media outlets in the early hours of Tuesday, you probably heard that Indian Air Force jets swooped into Pakistani airspace and carried out devastating strikes on militant camps, killing roughly 300 fighters. If you were watching in...
by Anant Mishra* | Feb 21, 2019 | Commentary, Fighting Organised Crime and Terrorism
Introduction Post 9/11 world, exposed intelligence agencies to an age old tradition of channelling funds across the globe using mordern international financial system. In this, the transnational organized criminal networks used the digital world to carry out money...
by Alexy Zender* | Feb 8, 2019 | Commentary, Energy Security, Geopolitics & Great Power Politics
The embargo imposed on Russia by the EU and the US after the annexation of Crimea and the Russian aim of eliminating the key position of Ukraine on the energy route have led Russia to re-evaluate its natural gas pipeline projects. At the end of 2014, during a state...
by Robert M. Cutler* | Feb 6, 2019 | Commentary, Energy Security, Geopolitics & Great Power Politics
I would first of all like to thank the organizers for inviting me to participate here. The title of this session is “Political and Geopolitical Issues in the Short and Medium Term”. I should clarify that I understand the short term to refer to one to four years, and...
