A new report by the Agency Co-ordinating Body for Afghan Relief (Acbar) says the international aid effort in Afghanistan is in large part "wasteful and...
Charlie Edwards
Charlie Edwards is Director of National Security and Resilience Studies at the Royal United Services Institute. Prior to RUSI he was a Research Leader at the RAND Corporation focusing on Defence and Security where he conducted research and analysis on a broad range of subject areas including: the evaluation and implementation of counter-violent extremism programmes in Europe and Africa, UK cyber strategy, European emergency management, and the role of the internet in the process of radicalisation. He has undertaken fieldwork in Iraq, Somalia, and the wider Horn of Africa region.
WFP Appeal
According to today's FT: The World Food Programme has launched an “extraordinary emergency appeal” to governments to donate at least $500m in the next four...
A very British revolution: The UK’s National Security Strategy
Last week Gordon Brown announced the publication of the UK’s first national security strategy in a statement to the House of Commons. Most analysts and...
National Security: The media’s turgid and ill-informed commentary
Having read this morning's press and their pretty feeble attempts to explain what the national security strategy is, I plan to wait until the dust settles...
Who’s been talking to Sue Cameron?
So which political adviser and/or Whitehall official(s) have been talking with the FT's resident 'Rita Skeeter'? In her notebook today she despairs of the...
A taste of what is to come
There have been numerous column inches in the papers about Gordon Brown's announcement today on the UK's first national security strategy. While it seems...
Agent Blogger
The Israeli secret service has launched a blog written by four of its agents. According to the BBC the agents discuss how they were recruited, and what sort...
The UK’s National Security Strategy
This Wednesday the British Government will publish the UK's first ever National Security Strategy. This is a big moment for Gordon Brown and comes with great...
FCO 2020 ‘A different way of doing things’
I am sure Alex and/or David will post something about Miliband's speech to the FCO leadership conference which happened yesterday. My advice - don't get too...
Afghanistan’s addiction
The International Narcotics Control Board has published its report on narcotics in Afghanistan. The increase in opium cultivation which is taking place in the...
Inspiration
Quite.
The ‘tube’ map to the future
The Global Strategy Institute at CSIS has published a map of trends and events up to 2012. For those who travel on the London underground the map may look...
One night stand?
Courtesy of The Times. We will be posting more on the UK Government's CT legislation in the future.
The last post: The State Department sucks
In late 2006 Manuel Miranda accepted an offer by the Department of State to join their diplomatic mission in Baghdad as a Senior Advisor to the Iraqi Prime...
Welcome to the ‘Doomsday Vault’
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is situated more than one hundred metres deep inside the mountain permafrost on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen, some 620...
Global disease hotspots
Having analyzed 335 emerging diseases from 1940 to 2004, scientists have converted the results into maps correlated with human population density, population...
From ‘soft touch’ to ‘out of touch’
Two days, two very similar broadsheet leaders. Yesterday The Times called for a national security strategy that narrowly defined ‘security’ (read defence),...
‘At war with a peacetime mentality’
I was planning to write a more comprehensive analysis of RUSI’s journal article yesterday. I didn’t, which was fortunate, because Michael White has an...
British Government a ‘soft touch’ says RUSI
A short qualification in respect to my last post. I've had a couple of emails reminding me there are at least three excellent contributions to the current...
Reconstructing Afghanistan
The UK Parliament select committee on Development reports on the state of Afghanistan. You can read the report here. There are 50 recommendations – here are...
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