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Friday reading
Security/politics: Hot off the press: Critical Security Methods, by Claudia Aradau, Jef Huysmans, Andrew Neal and Nadine Voelkner. I’ve just ordered my own copy, and can’t wait to read it – it’s always...
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The NATO Summit Twitter Fight
The 2014 NATO Summit presents an opportunity for world leaders to sit around and solve bicker about security issues ranging ‘from fragile states to piracy, from terrorism to cyber attacks‘. This year...
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Lost in translation: when research requires more than one language
IR/security research is often by its very nature international, and can involve empirical work in any number of different places and/or languages. When your research is done in one language and has to...
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Friday reading
Here are some interesting things we’ve come across in the last couple of weeks, for your end of week enjoyment: Climate change legislation: China has politics too. Great blogpost from Nottingham’s...
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Is China reclassifying energy as a military security issue?
Last week, news broke that China is sending troops to South Sudan to protect its oil interests in the troubled region. The troops will join the UN’s peacekeeping force in the area later this year. The...
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For effective democratic oversight of intelligence and security, an...
jonnaknyman:Great piece by Andrew Neal on some of the implications of (potential) Scottish independence, ahead of tomorrow’s referendum: Originally posted on securitypolitics: On 11 September 2014 my...
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Scotland No vote has halted a wider debate about Trident
By Andrew Futter, University of Leicester Nowhere was the relief over Scotland’s decision last week to remain part of the United Kingdom more acutely felt than with those responsible for Britain’s...
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Some thoughts on the ongoing protests in Hong Kong
Those watching the news over the weekend have probably noticed growing reporting on the protests in Hong Kong, under the name of ‘Occupy Central’. Discontent has been brewing for a while, in...
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5 Trends Behind the Rise of UKIP
This morning Douglass Carswell became the first UKIP MP, winning 21,113 votes (59.66%) in the Clacton by-election. Whilst I’ve spent all morning banging my head on my desk and shouting angrily at the...
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On Remembrance Day
As we look back and remember the lives lost, I highly recommend you take a little bit of time to read the following article by Tom Gregory, on emotions and the embodied experience of war. It’s a...
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