My latest for HSToday, though a bit belatedly posted. A quick overview of the debate about a shift in counter-terrorism policy in the UK. UK CT Policy Review: Terrorist Threat ‘Cannot Be Ignored Or Contained’ By Raffaello Pantucci 02/25/2011 (12:00am) Nine months on the job, British Prime Minister David Cameron’s government finally announced its long [...]
Posts Tagged ‘UK election’
UK CT Policy Review: Terrorist Threat ‘Cannot Be Ignored Or Contained’
Posted: February 26, 2011 in HSToday, UncategorizedTags: counter-radicalization, counter-terrorism, Europe, Pakistan, radicalization, UK, UK counter-terrorism, UK election
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Britain and China: Being Friendly
Posted: November 29, 2010 in World TodayTags: british pavilion, China, shanghai expo, UK, UK election, UK foreign policy, UK trade
A new piece for Chatham House’s magazine The World Today, drawing on a topic that has come up repeatedly during interviews with academics in China. The fact that they love British foreign policy so much. It is sometimes hard to tell whether they are simply flattering me with these sorts of statements, but I feel [...]
Poverty and Terror
Posted: July 10, 2010 in Free Rad!calsTags: counter-radicalization, counter-terrorism, Europe, far right, Germany, radicalization, UK, UK election
A rather long-lost post finally is up at Free Rad!cals – this one exploring an issue which clearly needs deeper research. I have heard less of it of late, but I recall when the financial crisis first hit, hearing about the possible risks in quite alarming language from someone in government. Poverty and Terror View [...]
UK Challenge: Depoliticizing Security
Posted: May 18, 2010 in HSTodayTags: counter-radicalization, legislation, radicalization, UK, UK election, US
My latest for HSToday, looking at the British election fall-out from a counter-terrorism perspective (following my earlier post about the manifestos). This subject hopefully will get more interesting, rather than continue to fester as it is at the moment with no new ideas. Though I suppose I need to start to developing some good new [...]
The Big Three Counter-Terrorism Strategies
Posted: April 26, 2010 in Free Rad!calsTags: counter-radicalization, counter-terrorism, radicalization, terrorism, UK, UK election
My addition to the ongoing debate in the UK about the elections over at Free Rad!cals, this time to highlight the fact that counter-terrorism strategy appears to have fallen right off the table. It occurs to me that in fact, a similar point can be made about foreign policy in the debate. None of this [...]
