Tuesday, August 27, 2019
New Nuclear Power
This Commons Library briefing paper summarises current progress on nuclear power, including conventional reactors, advanced designs, waste disposal and nuclear research.
Published Monday, August 19, 2019 | Commons Briefing papers CBP-8176
https://researchbriefings.parliament.uk/ResearchBriefing/Summary/CBP-8176
Britain’s new Prime Minister Boris Johnson clearly prefers soundbites over policy details
Friends of Europe news
With a new mandate focused primarily on emotions, and in search of the vulnerabilities of people and communities, Johnson fundamentally rethinks the brexit debate.
https://www.friendsofeurope.org/insights/back-pedaling-on-the-backstop-boris-and-the-blame-game/
With a new mandate focused primarily on emotions, and in search of the vulnerabilities of people and communities, Johnson fundamentally rethinks the brexit debate.
https://www.friendsofeurope.org/insights/back-pedaling-on-the-backstop-boris-and-the-blame-game/
Morocco's leadership in immigration management
RUSI news
modern trends of Morocco development in the context of the issue of immigration are shown
Get Africa Involved: Morocco’s Lead in the Management of Immigration
modern trends of Morocco development in the context of the issue of immigration are shown
Get Africa Involved: Morocco’s Lead in the Management of Immigration
20 August 2019
Sunday, August 18, 2019
Mexico Maya Train poses major challenges
Oxford Analytica news
President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO)’s Maya Train poses serious social, financial and environmental risks
https://dailybrief.oxan.com/Analysis/GA245654/Mexico-Maya-Train-poses-major-challenges
Mexico Maya Train poses major challenges
Defining the Concept of ‘Violent Extremism’
GCSP news
Over the past few decades, the concept of violent extremism (VE) has played an increasingly prominent role in global development policy and programming. Having gone through several incarnations, most actors are now focused on preventing and countering violent extremism. This terminology was developed in an attempt to repackage the global war on terrorism (GWOT) in such a way as to shift the focus from the overly militarized responses of the 1990s and early 2000s to methods related to social support and prevention.
Defining the Concept of ‘Violent Extremism’
https://www.gcsp.ch/publications/defining-concept-violent-extremism
Over the past few decades, the concept of violent extremism (VE) has played an increasingly prominent role in global development policy and programming. Having gone through several incarnations, most actors are now focused on preventing and countering violent extremism. This terminology was developed in an attempt to repackage the global war on terrorism (GWOT) in such a way as to shift the focus from the overly militarized responses of the 1990s and early 2000s to methods related to social support and prevention.
Defining the Concept of ‘Violent Extremism’
https://www.gcsp.ch/publications/defining-concept-violent-extremism
National Security
banking while an important part of U.S. innovation and culture, bankruptcy proceedings have nonetheless become a unique way through which foreign adversaries can acquire sensitive U.S. national security technologies and intellectual property. Through a detailed analysis of the existing gaps in the Federal rules governing foreign investment and bankruptcy procedures in the United States, Camilla Stewart provides the reader with an in-depth look at how foreign companies were able to circumvent these rules of foreign investment in the United States.
Full Court Press: Preventing Foreign Adversaries from Exfiltrating National Security Technologies Through Bankruptcy Proceedings
Journal of National Security Law & Policy
Full Court Press: Preventing Foreign Adversaries from Exfiltrating National Security Technologies Through Bankruptcy Proceedings
Journal of National Security Law & Policy
Nord Stream 2 Sanctions A Miss?
Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy news
Although sanctions against the Russian Nord stream 2 gas pipeline project will be very well accepted in Central and Eastern Europe, they can make the already tense relations between the US and its Western European allies even more complex
Online Jihadist propaganda – 2018 in review
Europol news
report based on open sources about the terrorist propaganda of Jihad in 2018
report based on open sources about the terrorist propaganda of Jihad in 2018
Online Jihadist propaganda – 2018 in review
how social media platforms have been instrumentalized for various purposes by terrorist organizations in Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka, and how these governments have addressed this issue
Given the scale of inter-communal violence in the region, it is essential to conduct further research on this connection.
The use of end-to-end encrypted communications by terrorists is a common feature of all three case studies in the present document: Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. However, the government's response to this in South Asia has so far been futile, as their proposals were not feasible and social media blocks were of limited effectiveness.
RUSI news
Transnational Lessons from Terrorist Use of Social Media in South Asia
The use of end-to-end encrypted communications by terrorists is a common feature of all three case studies in the present document: Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. However, the government's response to this in South Asia has so far been futile, as their proposals were not feasible and social media blocks were of limited effectiveness.
RUSI news
Transnational Lessons from Terrorist Use of Social Media in South Asia
13 August 2019
DIIS - New article about the contested state-building in periods of cease-fire
DIIS news
New article about the contested state-building in periods of cease-fire
INTELLIGENCE SERVICES AND THE SECRET SERVICE
RIEAS news
sharp and very necessary in the present discussion article about democratic control over the security services
sharp and very necessary in the present discussion article about democratic control over the security services
INTELLIGENCE SERVICES AND THE SECRET SERVICE, MYTHS IN EUROPE
Counterintelligence Threat Brief for Turkey
a summary of the threat of counterintelligence about traditional and non-traditional counterintelligence threats to individuals who fail a security check who travel to Turkey as business travelers or for personal reasons.
Counterintelligence Threat Brief for Turkey
https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2019/08/15/counterintelligence-threat-brief-for-turkey/
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