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2. Fracturing Communities :Aid Distribution in a Palestinian Camp
- Author:
- Perla Issa
- Publication Date:
- 03-2019
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Institute for Palestine Studies
- Abstract:
- This article examines the practices of humanitarian aid distribution from the perspective of aid recipients rather than providers through an immersion in the daily home life of Palestinian residents of Nahr al-Barid refugee camp (north Lebanon) in 2011. It argues that in the name of distributing aid fairly, humanitarian aid providers put in place a pervasive system of surveillance to monitor, evaluate, and compare residents’ misery levels by relying on locally recruited aid workers. This regime of visibility was designed to be one directional; NGOs never disclosed how much aid they had available, nor when or how it would be distributed. The inclusion of local aid workers in this opaque framework turned a process that relied on community and neighborhood ties into an impersonal machine that fostered doubt and suspicion and ultimately hindered the community’s ability to engage in collective political action.
- Topic:
- Humanitarian Aid, International Security, International Affairs, and Occupation
- Political Geography:
- Palestine
3. Missing Figures: The Cybersecurity Gender Gap
- Author:
- Spencer Beall
- Publication Date:
- 02-2018
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Women In International Security (WIIS)
- Abstract:
- While the cybersecurity industry will require approximately six million workers to meet its projected job demand by 2019, many positions will remain unfilled without more female cybersecurity professionals. Currently, women comprise only 11 percent of global cybersecurity professionals. Women’s underrepresentation in cybersecurity is not just an economic workplace issue, but also has a profound impact on the type of technologies being developed and hence impacts everyone in the digital age. The report will explore some of the main barriers that impede women’s entry, professional advancement, and retention in cybersecurity, including the pervasive gender discrimination in technology professions. Next, I will examine three core reasons why it is essential to get more women in cybersecurity, namely (1) to maximize innovation potential; (2)to expand usability of digital products to meet the needs of all consumers; and (3) to strengthen the global economy by fulfilling the cybersecurity industry’s rapidly growing job demand. Recommendations on how to dismantle the gender gap in cybersecurity and how to create in the digital age a global workforce that is safer, more efficient, and more prosperous are presented.
- Topic:
- Gender Issues, International Security, Women, and Cybersecurity
- Political Geography:
- Global Focus
4. Failure to define killer robots means failure to regulate them
- Author:
- Johannes Lang, Rens van Munster, and Robin May Schott
- Publication Date:
- 02-2018
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Danish Institute for International Studies
- Abstract:
- Disagreements on how to define “autonomy” are stalling formal UN discussions on the compliance of autonomous weapons with international humanitarian law. A pragmatic approach that focuses on the weapon’s critical functions, such as target selection and firing, can help move discussions forward in the future.
- Topic:
- International Security
- Political Geography:
- Global Focus
5. New Armies for a New Era Decrypting post-2011 Arab Military Reform Trends
- Author:
- Eleanore Ardemagni and Umberto Profazio
- Publication Date:
- 03-2018
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- NATO Defense College
- Abstract:
- Th e reaction of the Arab armies to the 2011 uprisings is a subject that has been frequently examined, but the evolution and reform of Arab armies is a neglected topic.2 In times of global interdependence, the Atlantic Alliance must be ready to understand and interact with a changing Middle East, since NATO Arab partners’ security is more and more NATO’s security, in terms of shared objectives, common threats and cooperative security. Arab armies have entered a new era: traditional obstacles to military reform, mostly due to their politicization, persist; other variables emerge from the interaction of domestic, foreign and transnational threats.
- Topic:
- International Security
- Political Geography:
- Global Focus
6. How the United States Should Help Protect Jordan from the Chaos Next Door
- Author:
- David Schenker
- Publication Date:
- 01-2017
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
- Abstract:
- The Middle at ha een engulfed in chao. Longtanding authoritarian regime have een toppled; till other dictator have killed hundred of thouand and diplaced million in an effort to retain power. Iran’ hiite prox militia have pread throughout the region, fueling ectarianim and roadening the appeal of nihilitic unni Ilamit jihadit group. Meanwhile, audi Araia and gpt—two longtanding pillar of Wahington’ trategic architecture in the Middle at—have een haken economic troule.
- Topic:
- International Security
- Political Geography:
- Jordan
7. Public Opinion on the Security of Serbia and Dialogue with Pristina
- Author:
- Milos Popovic and Sonja Stojanovic Gajic
- Publication Date:
- 03-2017
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Belgrade Centre for Security Policy
- Abstract:
- The latest BCSP working study summarizes the key findings of a survey on national security and responses to security threats. The research was conducted from 26 December 2016 until 14 January 2017 on reprezentative sample of 1,403 adult citizens of Serbia (excluding Kosovo).
- Topic:
- International Security and Public Opinion
- Political Geography:
- Serbia
8. North Korea and the Middle East
- Author:
- Alon Levkowitz
- Publication Date:
- 01-2017
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- The Begin-Sadat Centre for Strategic Studies (BESA)
- Abstract:
- Kim Jung-un’s new year declaration that North Korea will test its new ICBM this year (2017) poses a further challenge to the incoming Trump administration. It is truly a “rogue state” – a country that conducts nuclear tests in defiance of the UN Security Council, and that is willing to sell conventional and non-conventional weapons to other rogue regimes, including Israel’s enemies. The nuclear cooperation between North Korea, Syria and Iran forces Israel into new alliances to counter this threat.
- Topic:
- Nuclear Weapons, International Security, and Nuclear Power
- Political Geography:
- North Korea and Global Focus
9. Khan Sheikhoun, Shayrat Air Base, and What Next?
- Author:
- Adam Garfinkle
- Publication Date:
- 04-2017
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Foreign Policy Research Institute
- Abstract:
- By now the world knows that U.S. military forces for the first time since the onset of the Syrian civil war in 2011 have attacked regime targets. Plenty of the basic facts are known about what transpired about 18 hours ago, but a few important ones are not—at least not in the public domain. For example, we have only a very general Bomb Damage Assessment (BDA) report. This matters because Tomahawk cruise missiles are very accurate if “lite” weapons. Knowing what the four dozen or so missiles hit and missed, deliberately and otherwise, could tell us a lot about why the President, presumably with Secretary of Defense James Mattis’ guidance and concurrence, chose the lesser of three options presented at what has been described as a meeting of considerable length. That, in turn, could tell us if the intention ultimately is to coerce the Russians into coercing the Syrians to stop doing monstrous things to their own people, and possibly coercing them to support a compromise political settlement to the war; or if it’s just an Eff-You gesture designed only to relieve the sudden pressure of moral unction that unexpectedly came upon our new Commander-in Chief—who seemed to lurch from coldblooded Randian to “Godtalk” invoker of the American Civil Religion in the wink of an eye. In other words, knowing more about the target set would tell us whether there is any political strategy attached to the use of force, or not. Probably not.
- Topic:
- International Security and Military Affairs
- Political Geography:
- America, Middle East, and Syria
10. Fighting Corruption: A Manifesto for a more secure,prosperous and resilient UK.
- Author:
- Transparency International
- Publication Date:
- 05-2017
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Transparency International
- Abstract:
- This manifesto contains 39 recommendations to address corruption in our country and the UK’s role in facilitating corruption globally. These five priority actions, building on past government announcements, deserve cross-party support, and could be introduced swiftly.
- Topic:
- Corruption and International Security
- Political Geography:
- Global Focus