Interview – Mohammed Ihsan
Mohammed Ihsan explores the implications of the de-Baathification process on transitional justice in Iraq, and progress towards national reconciliation.
Review – The Kurds of Northern Syria
Allsopp and van Wilgenburg draw on interviews to provide a detailed and less romanticized account of the emergence, consolidation and crisis of the DAA in Northern Syria.
Islamic State Men and Women Must be Treated the Same
Treating men and women ISIS members differently in court not only undermines judicial fairness, it also hinders counterterrorism and threatens security.
Interview – Issac Kfir
Issac Kfir discusses the terrorist attacks in New Zealand and Sri Lanka, Australia’s counterterrorism policy, Asia-Pacific cooperation, and returning foreign fighters.
Student Feature – Theory in Action: Securitisation Theory and ISIS
Through securitisation theory threat magnification that results in certain counterterrorism strategies, which often serve political ends, can be exposed.
Student Feature – Theory in Action: Realism and ISIS
Realism often yields strong results as a tool of analysis, as examing the rise of the Islamic State group in the years after the Iraq invasion demonstrated.
Violent Non-State Actors in the Middle East: Origins and Goals
Violent Non-State Actors are formidable challengers of the legitimacy and security of the existing state system in the Middle East and to those who govern those states.
5 Reasons Why the West Got Islamist Terrorism Wrong
Essentializing Islam will not help us find a solution to the use of violence by Muslims. On the contrary, it will only impede the understanding of anti-Western terrorism.
International Relations Theory and the ‘Islamic State’
Integrating the root causes of the formation of IS in a systematic framework gives an inclusive and representative image of the formation of this organization.
Interview – Gary Kent
Secretary of the all-party parliamentary group on the Kurdistan region, Gary Kent, discusses the group, Iraq and the Kurdish independence referendum and its consequences.
