Exponential growth in suicide attacks since 2001 shows that they have increasingly become a practical tool in a large variety...
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
Austerity, resource scarcity and technological advances will empower Al Qaeda and other violent non-state actors, just as...
Tactical successes mask continued strategic weakness and incoherence among the region’s states. All political violence...
Tags: Abu Bakar Bashir, Abu Sayyaf Group, Al Qaeda, Arabinda Acharya, Association of Southeast Asian Nations countries, Azahari Husin, Global Brief, Jemaah Islamiyah, jihadist movement, religious extremism, Southeast Asia, terrorism, Tom Quiggin, war on terror
Pakistan’s internal troubles and external behaviour point increasingly to the need for an increasingly muscular Indian...
Tags: Global Brief, India, India-Pakistan relations, India-Pakistan war, Inter-Services Intelligence, Islamabad, Kashmir, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, Mumbai attacks, NATO, Pakistan, Ramesh Thakur, Russia, terrorism
As a philosophy of statecraft, political Islam has proved ill-equipped for the complexities of modern government. With the...
Tags: AKP, Al Qaeda, Algeria, Egypt, Global Brief, Iran, Iranian revolution, Islamists, Katerina Dalacoura, London School of Economics, political Islam, Saudi monarchy, Sharia, terrorism
Understanding the Ottawa arrests, the Tamil boat and the Air India report in order to tackle terrorism in its various forms
Terrorism,...
Tags: Air India bombing, Air India report, Air India Royal Commission of Inquiry, Al Qaeda, Canadian Centre of Intelligence and Security Studies, Canadian Supreme Court, Global Brief, Improvised Explosive Devices, intelligence agencies, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam, RAND Corporation, Singapore’s Internal Security Department, Tamil boat, terrorism, terrorist attacks, terrorists, Tom Quiggin
Last week, we introduced the Northwest Caucasus, a strategically important region of Russia, and surveyed its three provinces...
Tags: Adygeia, Caucasus, Global Brief, Krasnodar, Matthew Light, Northwest Caucasus, Olympics, Putin, Sochi, Stravropol, terrorism
In 2007, the International Olympic Committee announced that the 2014 winter Olympics would be awarded to Russia. The games...
No major international attacks have been orchestrated by ‘core’ Al Qaeda for a number of years. Why? The fear and unease...