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Are Mercenaries Friends or Foes of African Governments and the UN?
This week, Equatorial Guinea took over as chair of the United Nations Security Council and began its tenure by hosting a high-level debate on the use and impact of mercenaries, a topic of particular...
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Mexico’s Security Conundrum
Last year marked Mexico’s deadliest year on record. The latest estimates provided by the Mexican interior ministry place the annualized homicide tally at 25,340 registered cases, while the total number...
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Alleged Chinese Interference Creates Strategic Conundrum for Australia
Australia’s most enduring conspiracy theories surround the inexplicable disappearance of a serving prime minister, Harold Holt, while swimming in 1967. The most elaborate theory holds that he was...
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Sustaining Peace in Security Transitions: The Liberian Opportunity
On December 21 last year, the United Nations Security Council extended the mandate of the peacekeeping operation in Liberia (UNMIL) and set its end date as March 30, 2018. The Council hailed the...
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Elections and Economics Add to Africa’s 2017 Security Challenges
As always, there were mixed sociopolitical fortunes across the vast landscape of sub-Saharan Africa in 2016. On a positive note, the year saw relatively peaceful elections take place in Benin, the...
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A New Path Emerges for Troubled Somali Security
Ethiopia’s recent military withdrawal from key areas in Somalia, and the speed at which al-Shabaab extremists filled the power vacuum, is a significant reminder of the limited progress made in building...
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Can Neighborhood Watch Ease Somalia’s Insecurity?
An al-Shabaab bomb that killed 10 people in a Mogadishu beach resort in August highlighted the city’s chronic insecurity. This will be in even sharper contrast in the run-up to Somali elections...
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The Battle for Haiti’s Security Is Largely Political
Hopes for a peaceful transition ending another drawn-out electoral crisis in Haiti dimmed when gunmen attacked a police station in Les Cayes on May 16 this year, looting weapons and leaving one officer...
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What Challenges Does 2016 Hold for Sub-Saharan Africa?
Akin to its physical landscape, the political environment of Sub-Saharan Africa in 2015 varied greatly from country to country. On a positive note, elections in politically polarized countries such as...
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Plural Security: How Lebanon’s Divided Authority Seeks Order
A month has now passed since two suicide bombers detonated explosives in the southern Beirut suburb of Bourj el-Barajneh, killing as many as 40 people. The bombings, immediately claimed by the...
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Rearming CAR’s Forces: A Way out of the Abyss?
As international forces scrambled to provide security for the visit of Pope Francis to the Central African Republic (CAR) over the weekend, local and international actors have called for the rearmament...
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As Nigeria Seeks Security, Are More Weapons Really the Answer?
Speaking at Nigeria’s National Defence College in Abuja earlier this month, President Muhammadu Buhari outlined plans for the country to obtain “near self-sufficiency in military equipment and...
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Looming Challenges in Niger Delta Could Threaten Nigeria’s Election Afterglow
While international attention has focused on the election of President Muhammadu Buhari and the continued instability in the north of the country, events surrounding the gubernatorial elections in...
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Is Old-Fashioned Nationalism Driving a Militarized Gold Rush in East Asian Seas?
The security climate of East Asia is changing. Last month, the Japanese Cabinet under Prime Minster Shinzo Abe approved a record defense budget of 4.98 trillion yen (42 billion USD) for fiscal year...
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Boko Haram and the Deferral of Nigerian Democracy
On February 7, Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) confirmed the country’s forthcoming general elections would be postponed by six weeks. Initially scheduled for February 14,...
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India-US Cooperation Grows With Obama Visit
This week’s visit of an incumbent US president to India—for a second time, and as chief guest on India’s Republic Day for the first time ever—is in and of itself significant. Anyone with even a nodding...
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What Security Challenges Face Sub-Saharan Africa in 2015?
2014 proved to be a tumultuous year for sub-Saharan Africa. Conflict and insecurity flared up across the continent, with the situation particularly precarious in the Sahel region, as well as parts of...
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Is War in Decline?
Is war really in decline? Scholars such as Steven Pinker, Joshua Goldstein, and the authors of the 2013 Human Security Report contend that it is. In a recent article, I suggest that this claim is...
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Ukraine Steels Itself for Winter as Putin Forges Ahead with Novorossiya
The Europe-Asia Summit in Milan, Italy, delivered little, if any, tangible progress to resolve the crisis in Ukraine. Relations between Russia and Ukraine’s major European allies remain just a few...
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