A new article in today’s 东方早报 (Oriental Morning Post), a daily paper in China that I write a semi-regular column for. This was intended to come out last week talking a bit about China’s growing problems with citizens abroad and the dangerous places they are, and was meant to be pegged to the kidnapping the workers in [...]
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The Dangers on the Path of Being a Large Power
Posted: February 8, 2012 in Oriental Morning PostTags: China, China and the world, China-Africa, China-Libya, Chinese foreign policy, kidnapping
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What Might Boko Haram Do?
Posted: January 20, 2012 in CNNTags: Al Qaeda, AQAP, AQIM, Boko Haram, counter-radicalization, counter-terrorism, jihad, radicalization, shabaab, shabab, terrorism
A new piece for CNN, this time looking in a bit more detail at the group Boko Haram to try to understand what lessons can be learned from nearby al Qaeda affiliates and fellow travellers to see about its trajectory as an global terrorist threat. My sense is that it is unlikely to start actively [...]
Middle East Challenges Facing China in 2012
Posted: January 10, 2012 in Oriental Morning PostTags: terrorism, China, Central Asia, lone wolves, Chinese foreign policy, xinjiang, China and the world, arab spring, kyrgyzstan, China and the middle east, China and central asia, Confucius Institutes
A new article for 东房早报 (the Oriental Morning Post) the Chinese newspaper I sometimes contribute to about what China faces with regards the Middle East and the fall-out from the so-called Arab Spring of last year. I have also been doing a few media appearances, including being quoted in an article for Voice of America about [...]
Lone Attacker or Lone Wolf?
Posted: December 26, 2011 in CNNTags: counter-radicalization, counter-terrorism, defining terrorism, legislation, lone wolves, radicalization, terrorism
A new outlet, CNN’s Security Clearance blog, on an old topic: Lone Wolves and how exactly to define them using a couple of cases from earlier in the month. Not exactly a very seasonal topic, but terrorism seems to never stop. Lone attacker or lone wolf? By Raffaello Pantucci, Special to CNN EDITOR’S NOTE: Raffaello [...]
What Can Be Done About Lone Wolves?
Posted: December 20, 2011 in HSTodayTags: counter-radicalization, counter-terrorism, Europe, Germany, lone wolves, radicalization, UK
A short post for HSToday about Lone Wolves, this time offering some thoughts on the countering them aspect. Some more considered and substantial thoughts on this in the pipeline. What Can Be Done About Lone Wolves? By: Raffaello Pantucci 12/20/2011 ( 9:47am) Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano recently vocalized a threat that has preoccupied security planners. She [...]
Can China’s Centre Hold?
Posted: November 26, 2011 in ProspectTags: China, Chinese foreign policy, xinjiang, China and the world
An article for Prospect, a British political magazine, looking at the phenomenon of the growing diffusion of power in China. Not a subject I have done a huge amount about, and is really an off-shoot of other work, but it is a fact that I have encountered in China and that I find increasingly interesting [...]
Uncertain Times for Afghan Neighbors
Posted: November 10, 2011 in Washington TimesTags: Afghanistan, Central Asia, China, China and the world, kyrgyzstan, Pakistan
Another article on the theme of Central Asia after my trip there. This one is for the Washington Times, a DC newspaper I used to write for relatively regularly (on Tony Blair’s election victory; Angela Merkel’s; and Gordon Brown’s takeover). Also, my most recent journal article on terrorism was used in another newspaper story, this [...]
Seeking Balance in Britain
Posted: October 30, 2011 in HSTodayTags: Al Qaeda, Anwar al awlaki, AQAP, AQIM, counter-radicalization, counter-terrorism, lone wolves, online, terrorism, UK
Have been travelling where this is unaccessible for some reason, so there is going to be a bit of a blast now as I catch up with posting a bunch of things that were recently published in other places. First up, a longer article for Homeland Security Today magazine from their October edition, teeing up [...]
Russia’s Eastern Anxieties
Posted: October 18, 2011 in International Herald TribuneTags: Central Asia, China, China and the world, Chinese foreign policy, Russia, shanghai cooperation organization
An op-ed in the International Herald Tribune today, looking at China and Russia across Central Asia. Am currently in the middle of a fascinating trip through the region, about which more later. My co-author and I are going to be producing a lot more on this topic in the near future, so watch this space. [...]
Britain’s Jihadist Networks
Posted: October 11, 2011 in HSTodayTags: Afghanistan, counter-radicalization, counter-terrorism, Europe, Germany, terrorism, UK
A new piece on recent plotting in the UK for HSToday, a few editorial choices I might not have made, but the overall point was to cover a couple of recent plots in the UK. Once the book finally lands, a lot more on this topic. In the meantime, in Bucharest recently for the NATO [...]
