And another in this series, this time at the Pakistani pavilion. The subject of China-Pakistan is something that I have a longer piece coming out about soon – have been doing some interesting research on the topic while I am out here. Around the Shanghai Expo: Pakistan pavilion By Raffaello Pantucci - 21 June 2010 9:15AM [...]
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Around the Shanghai Expo: Pakistan pavilion
Posted: June 21, 2010 in InterpreterTags: China, Pakistan, shanghai expo, Sino-Pakistan relations
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Around the Shanghai Expo: British pavilion
Posted: June 20, 2010 in InterpreterTags: China, shanghai expo, soft power, UK
This is posted a little late, as I just realized that it had been posted before the previous post about the DPRK pavilion. Also, having done this, I have now managed to get into the British pavilion. No matter, here it is now, more in this series coming. Around the Shanghai Expo: British pavilion By [...]
Around the Shanghai expo: DPRK pavilion
Posted: June 18, 2010 in InterpreterTags: China, north korea, shanghai expo
This is a slight change of pace from recent stuff. For those who don’t know, I spend a lot of time in Shanghai these days where the World Expo is in full swing. I have been going there a fair bit, and was asked by the Lowy Institute of Australia’s Interpreter blog to write some [...]
The New Frontiers of Jihad: Radical Islam in Europe
Posted: June 12, 2010 in Terrorism and Political ViolenceTags: AQIM, counter-radicalization, counter-terrorism, Europe, radicalization, terrorism
Another book review in Terrorism and Political Violence Journal, this time looking at Alison Pargeter’s The New Frontiers of Jihad: Radical Islam in Europe, an interesting and ambitious book which attempts to give a recent history to jihadism in all of Europe. Maybe it focuses a bit too much on the disaffection narrative, but a [...]
Europol Report Suggests Separatism Rather than Islamism Constitutes Biggest Terrorist Threat to Europe
Posted: June 6, 2010 in Terrorism MonitorTags: Europe, far right, lone wolves, online, radicalization, terrorism, UK
A rather long title for my latest piece for the Jamestown Foundation, this time based on a (relatively) recent Europol Annual report. The report highlights a number of interesting trends that are often overlooked, which would probably merit a lot closer attention than they actually get. Maybe once I clear some of my current backlog [...]
Bruce Hoffman in the National Interest
Posted: June 1, 2010 in Free Rad!calsTags: Al Qaeda, converts, counter-radicalization, lone wolves, Pakistan, radicalization, terrorism, US, US foreign policy, Yemen
Another post over at FreeRad!cals, this time drawn from a good article I read on a plane. It particularly struck me as it sparked off a long conversation about these issues with someone who really usually is not engaged in them – so it reached out. In retrospect it feels a little unfinished at the [...]
