The recent global heroics of digital dissidents and witnesses betray a larger kink in their armour – a desperate need for...
Tags: Caitlin N. Howarth, communication technologies, crisis mapping, Enough Project, George Clooney, Global Brief, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI), human rights, humanitarian affairs, JEEAR, Joint Evaluation of Emergency Assistance to Rwanda, Jonathan J. Hutson, Nathaniel A. Raymond, Satellite Sentinel Project, SSP, Sudan
Why Canada and Russia should unite to support a common position against the US in advancing certain Arctic claims
Unlike...
Tags: 1949 Corfu Channel Case, 1959 Antarctic Treaty, Arctic, Arctic competition, Arctic ocean, Canada, climate change, Global Brief, Michael Byers, Northern Sea Route, Russia, UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, UNCLOS, US
New Questions, Paradigms and Worlds for an Ancient Craft
Intelligence in this century will continue to be a key feature...
Tags: biotechnology, CIA, Cold War, Global Brief, Google Earth, intelligence, intelligence analysis, John E. McLaughlin, MASINT, nanotechnology, photographic intelligence (IMINT), security threats, signals intelligence (SIGINT), spies, spying
La mémoire d’un printemps raté pèse sur l’esprit collectif des Algériens. À Alger, le calme règne
Janvier 2011,...
Tags: CNCD, du Parti de la Liberté et de la Justice, Ennahda, FLN, Front de libération nationale, Global Brief, la Tunisie, l’Algérie, l’Égypte, Miloud Chennoufi, Printemps arabe
One hundred years after Indian and Pakistani independence, a region-wide compact and community will have turned one of the...
Tags: economic integration, future of India, future of South Asia, Global Brief, High Commissioner for National Minorities and Tribal Peoples, India-Pakistan relations, jihadists, natural hegemon, nuclear weapons, Nuclear Weapons Convention, Ramesh Thakur, SAARC, South Asia Union, South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation, South Asian Human Rights Commission, South Asian Human Rights Court, terrorism
Ten years after the formal launch of the ‘Responsibility to Protect’ doctrine, we are coming to terms with the idea that,...
Tags: Gaddafi, Global Brief, humanitarian intervention, International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty, Iraq war, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Libya, Michael Cotey Morgan, NATO, Reinhold Niebuhr, Responsibility to Protect, UN Human Rights Council, UN Security Council, UN Security Council Resolution 1973, Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Israel’s own ‘Arab Spring’ suggests a far more complex national destiny, but one that is to be expected for a maturing...
Tags: Ashkenazi, David Ben-Gurion, David Tal, Fania Oz-Salzberger, Global Brief, Isaiah Berlin, Israël, Jewish identity, Jewish State, Mizrahi, Palestinian, Sephardic, WW2, Yam Tihoni, Zioanism
«La plus grande catastrophe géopolitique du 20e siècle» se répète – un second éclatement à retardement
Au début...
Tags: Artur Rasizade, Global Brief, Ilham Aliev, Islam Karimov, la Communauté des États Indépendants, la Russie, l’Ouzbékistan, l’Union européenne, l’Union soviétique, Richard Rousseau, Shavkat Mirziyoyev
Austerity, resource scarcity and technological advances will empower Al Qaeda and other violent non-state actors, just as...
As the world inches toward another recession, it looks for new answers on the economic jousting of companies around the world
At...
Tags: business, business competition, capitalist model, Corporate Social Responsibility, EU, Eurozone, Fred Lazar, Global Brief, global economy, political corruption, ruthlessness, self-interest, winner-take-all
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