A new post for Free Rad!cals, this time using the case of Umar Patek, the Bali bomber just going on trial in Indonesia, to explore some bigger themes about terrorist networks that I wrote about in an earlier journal article. I should add that it was also sparked off by the fact that I happened [...]
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Peripatetic Jihadi
Posted: February 13, 2012 in Free Rad!calsTags: Afghanistan, French jihad, Jemaah Islamiyah, middle managers in terrorist networks, Osama bin laden, terrorism, terrorist networks, Umar Patek
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Muslim Integration: America Must Avoid Europe’s Mistakes
Posted: February 2, 2012 in Free Rad!calsTags: counter-radicalization, counter-terrorism, Europe, terrorism, UK, US, US foreign policy
Another short blogpost for Free Rad!cals, this time on a topic that has been bugging me for a while. It seems as though the US is making a few unfortunate choices in counter-radicalisation terms that emulate earlier mistakes Europe made, something particularly silly given how much attention they have lavished on studying and criticising Europe’s [...]
Whither al Suri?
Posted: January 26, 2012 in Free Rad!calsTags: Abu Musab al Suri, Anwar al awlaki, AQAP, counter-radicalization, counter-terrorism, lone wolves, radicalization, Syria, terrorism, Yemen
A post for the long-ignored Free Rad!cals at ICSR. This one looking at the stories around Abu Musab al-Suri’s possible release and the implications of it. Brynjar was kind enough to give me some time to talk about it and I would recommend everyone read his book on the subject if they find the time. [...]
Guest Post: China is the power of the future in Central Asia
Posted: November 24, 2011 in RegistanTags: China, China and the world, China-Central Asia, Chinese foreign policy, Kazakhstan, kyrgyzstan, Turkey
Another piece to emerge from our recent travels, it is primarily in response to Joshua Foust’s post that reacted to our big piece for Jamestown on Kyrgyzstan. Many thanks to Joshua for agreeing to post it on Registan.net, a good site for information and comment about Central Asia. Thanks also to the lovely Sue Anne [...]
China has’t yet grown into its role
Posted: November 10, 2011 in InterpreterTags: Afghanistan, Central Asia, China, China and the world, Chinese foreign policy, SCO, shanghai cooperation organization
A new post for the Lowy Institute’s Interpreter blog, this time based on some conversations in Beijing about China’s role in Central Asia. As I have mentioned previously, there is going to be an increasing amount on this topic here in aid of a bigger project I am doing with Alexandros. We had also set [...]
A Rally in Kyrgyzstan
Posted: October 31, 2011 in InterpreterTags: kyrgyzstan, Kyrgyzstan elections, politics
A new post for the Lowy’s Interpreter blog, this time a set of pictures and text from Kyrgyzstan’s election campaign that we got to see during our recent trip to the region and in particular during a stop-over in Osh. A lot more on the topic of China in the region forthcoming (the principle purpose [...]
Jihad in China
Posted: July 21, 2011 in Free Rad!calsTags: Central Asia, China, China and the world, China domestic, counter-radicalization, counter-terrorism, ETIM, terrorism, TIP, xinjiang
A long lost post for ICSR looking at terrorism in China, something that I had actually drafted initially prior to the recent events out in Hotan. There it now seems as though the government is saying that a “flag of jihad” was being flown, though I have not seen reference to the East Turkestan groups [...]
Shanghai View: China As An External Actor
Posted: June 30, 2011 in Whose World Order?Tags: Afghanistan, China, China and the world, China goes out, China's rise, China-US relations, EU foreign policy, Libya
A new post for Whose World Order? this time based around comments I heard at an event I attended in Shanghai. Very interesting debate, more of which will feature in future posts once I get around to writing them. Note the quote that I left under the original post, a lovely quote I meant to [...]
Shanghai View: Happy Birthday CPC!
Posted: June 25, 2011 in Whose World Order?Tags: China, China domestic, CPC birthday, shanghai
A short post for Whose World Order? on the pending birthday of the CPC. I am planning on doing another one on the upcoming film that is being released to coincide with it. Will undoubtedly be a big melodrama – Chinese friends are already warning me about it. Shanghai View: Happy Birthday CPC! Date: 24th [...]
Shanghai View: Generation Gaps in China and Europe
Posted: June 22, 2011 in Whose World Order?Tags: aging policy, China, China EU Year of Youth, EU, EU-China relations, generation gaps, one child policy
A post for Whose World Order? offering some thoughts to have emerged from a recent conference that I helped organize in Shanghai around the EU-China Year of Youth. Should be some more bits coming out from this soon. Shanghai View: Generation gaps in China & Europe Date: 21st June 2011 | Author: Raffaello Pantucci, Categories: China, Tags: , Eu, Welfare, Youth, China, Cultural Revolution We [...]
