Thinking Global Podcast – Sumantra Bose (Part One)
Prof. Sumantra Bose speaks with the Thinking Global team in episode one of two about his work exploring the intersection of conflict, identity, territory and history.
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From the Periphery to the Centre: Why Civil Society is the Future of Peacebuilding
In the Cypriot context, the growing disassociation and absence of international support have led a space for indigenous actors to shape the island’s peacebuilding priorities.
Mutually Assured Destruction
Mutually assured destruction or MAD is not an American doctrine or military strategy. Those who believe MAD is how America deters nuclear-armed adversaries assume that any use of nuclear weapons by the United States will be massive, and that any alternative, such as limited nuclear use, will quickly escalate to a full-scale nuclear Armageddon. As a strategy, MAD was […]
Mutually Assured Destruction was originally published on Global Security Review.
Mutually Assured Destruction
Mutually assured destruction or MAD is not an American doctrine or military strategy. Those who believe MAD is how America deters nuclear-armed adversaries assume that any use of nuclear weapons by the United States will be massive, and that any alternative, such as limited nuclear use, will quickly escalate to a full-scale nuclear Armageddon. As a strategy, MAD was […]
Mutually Assured Destruction was originally published on Global Security Review.
Conflict as System Realignment: How Overloaded Systems Reset Themselves
Recasting conflict as a form of systemic realignment shifts the focus away from individual leaders, favouring of a deeper understanding of structural limits.
Interview – Michael Byers
Michael Byers explains how space, climate change, and conflict intersect and why global cooperation and context matter more than ever in international law.
Opinion – International Law’s Adaptive Resilience: Navigating Contemporary Global Conflicts
International law’s future depends on its capacity to evolve while maintaining fundamental protective principles, a process evidenced by contemporary responses to conflicts.
Putin says Russia will ‘intensify’ attacks on Ukraine
KYIV — Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday that his forces would intensify strikes on military targets in Ukraine, after an unprecedented Ukrainian attack over the weekend on the Russian city of Belgorod.The attack on Saturday, which killed 2…
US says it hit two sites in Iraq in response to attacks
Baghdad (AFP) – US forces carried out new strikes against two sites in Iraq early on Wednesday in retaliation for attacks by “Iran and Iran-backed groups,” US Central Command said. The US military “conducted discrete, precision strikes against two fa…
Fears for democracy growing after coups in Sahel and West Africa
France has started withdrawing its troops from Niger, months after the military coup in the west African state, with all 1,500 soldiers due to be back home before the end of the year. It is not the first time that Paris has brought back its soldiers f…