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The First Ten Years of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO)

CESRAN Int.20 January 201723 January 2017

Ten years after its establishment on June 15, 2001, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), successor to the original Group of Five (Shanghai Five), is still in a state of flux....

Kurdish Cover Strategy in the Manbij Offensive and the fight for a united Rojava

CESRAN Int.29 July 201629 July 2016

Since the end of May 2016, Syrian Democratic Forces have started offensive to liberate the city of Manbij from the “Islamic State” militants and unite all the territories of the...

CESRAN Blog Defense & Security Europe

Brexit: Implications for Counter-terrorism

CESRAN Int.21 July 201621 July 2016

Brexit will have negative consequences for counter-terrorism in the UK and in the EU. The UK will lose the possibility of enjoying the advantages the EU provides in this field...

Defense & Security Europe Middle East

Iraq: The Strategic Lessons of Chilcot

CESRAN Int.10 July 201610 July 2016

“The danger is, as ever with these things, unintended consequences” Prime Minister Tony Blair, 2002 It is 12 volumes and 2.6 million words in length and took 7 years to...

CESRAN Blog Defense & Security Europe

Brussels attacks: why do family members commit terrorism together?

CESRAN Int.27 March 201627 March 2016

It appears to be increasingly common that terrorist attacks not of the lone-wolf variety involve members of the same family. Some of them, like the San Bernardino attack last December,...

CESRAN Blog Defense & Security

Repairing the Policy-Making Processes of the United States: The First Step in Improving Its Defense

CESRAN Int.13 February 2016

Former US Department of Defense (DOD) Secretary Robert Gates explained on the January 21, 2016 Business Insider website that our military’s biggest weakness is sequestration, compounded by unpredictability in the...

Americas Defense & Security

Paris Bombing (13 November 2015) and Western “Terrorism” Policy

CESRAN Int.14 November 201514 November 2015

The bombing that took place in Paris with many casualties was a human tragedy and a political disaster for Western anti-terrorism policy. A day before ISIS suicide bombers in Paris,...

CESRAN Blog Defense & Security

A New Wave of Turkey’s Return to the Arc of Crisis

CESRAN Int.15 September 201515 September 2015

Turkey’s relationship with the Middle East and North Africa has been quite controversial since the very proclamation of the Republic due to the new elite’s reservations about establishing close contact...

CESRAN Blog Defense & Security Russia and Eurasia

What the T-14 can tell NATO about a resurgent Russia

CESRAN Int.15 August 201515 August 2015

What the T-14 can tell NATO about a resurgent Russia The piece of advice Bismark accorded to the new German general staff after unification in 1871, “Russia is never as...

CESRAN Blog Defense & Security Russia and Eurasia

Islamic State, Afghanistan and Pakistan!!

CESRAN Int.25 February 201527 February 2015

The Baqiya wa Tatamaddad (remaining and expanding) strategic motivations of the Islamic State have created a commotion that needs to be examined objectively, particularly reports related to the terror organization’s recruitment...

Defense & Security Turkey and Neighbourhood

Gendered (In)Securities: Refugee Camps in Southeastern Turkey

CESRAN Int.24 February 201524 February 2015

By Dr. Selin Akyüz* and Dr. Bezen Balamir Coşkun** Abstract Academic literature on security and securitization has been criticized for neglecting the significance of gender as a dimension of security....

CESRAN Blog Defense & Security Russia and Eurasia

Has China Made Its First Big Military Sale In Central Asia?

CESRAN Int.8 February 20158 February 2015

China has reportedly provided both Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan with sophisticated air defense systems, which would represent the largest Chinese military equipment deal thus far in Central Asia. Reportedly, China has...

Defense & Security

The Gangs of Bougainville: Seven Men, Guns and a Copper Mine

CESRAN Int.31 March 2014

It will be difficult to dispute that the international media determines which conflicts the world follows. Certain armed conflicts (mainly those which involve US or European interests), in the opinion...

Defense & Security

Buddhism and Conflict Transformation: Philosophical and Conceptual Expansion Of The Nature Of Human

CESRAN Int.31 March 2014

Since the1990’s peace research has witnessed the rise of conflict transformation as one of its key ideas. This paper explores how Buddhism can contribute to conflict transformation by examining how...

Defense & Security

Terrorism as Genocide: Killing with “Intent”

CESRAN Int.31 March 2014

Political violence is a broad term that encompasses different types of political action. Political violence can include intra-state or inter-state actions. Flanigan and Fogelman described domestic political violence as coups,...