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Dear Patron: For those of you who haven’t visited us in a while, please note that the Resources portion of the CSS website is the successor to the International Relations and Security Network (ISN). As in the case of its predecessor, the fundamental purpose of the Resources section is outreach -- i.e., it features the publications and analyses of CSS experts, external partners and other like-minded institutions in order to promote further dialogue on important international relations and security-related issues.
This Week's Two Security Watch Series
This week, our first Security Watch (SW) series focuses on the current status of the R2P concept; the problem of reoccurring conflicts; the power of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps; China’s One Belt and One Road strategic vision; and modern terrorist financing. Then, in our second SW series, we look at this month’s Duma elections in Russia; the country’s added struggles with climate change; the nature and purpose of security; the current EU-Turkey Stalemate; and digitally-enabled warfare.
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8 Sep 2016 | Security WatchIt’s full speed ahead for President Xi Jinping’s plan to construct huge infrastructural links that will tie China more closely together with the rest of the world. Indeed, Beijing is allocating huge amounts of money to the One Belt, One Road (OBOR) project, but as Stephen Aris points out today, China’s neighbors remain more than wary of this scheme’s geopolitical implications. -
8 Sep 2016 | Security WatchThings aren’t going well in the Turkey-EU relationship, observes Toni Alaranta. Brussels’s half-hearted interest in Ankara joining its ranks is partly to blame, as is the continued dominance of the AKP in Turkish politics and governance. Given these problems, Alaranta thinks it’s time for the European body to jettison its dysfunctional approach towards Turkey and reevaluate its policies for the future. -
8 Sep 2016 | CSS BlogSo, how do you create or even invent a peaceful, common destiny in fragmented societies? According to Fletcher Cox and Timothy Sisk, you must account for the following truths: 1) social cohesion is ephemeral; 2) “ethnic” conflict isn’t always about identity; 3) unity requires a commitment to multiculturalism and 4) flows from good public policy; and 5) it also benefits from well-designed development programs. -
29 Aug 2016 | PublicationsThis AJCR issue focuses on the ethnic and ethical dimensions of leadership and how they’re linked to initiating and resolving conflict. The individual articles focus on 1) Kenya’s experiences with democratic institutional reforms as part of its peace and reconciliation efforts; 2) the relationship between religion, ethnicity and violence in Nigeria, and more. -
"European Geostrategy" is an online, debate-centered magazine that focuses on European foreign, security and military issues from a geostrategic standpoint.
Video: Arendt and Violence (with Kimberley Hutchings)
Hannah Arendt was one of the great analysts of 20th century totalitarianism, which relied heavily on state-sponsored violence. In today’s video, Kimberley Hutchings walks us through Arendt’s thinking on the uses of this tool as an instrument of policy.