Berto Jongman: How Many Foreign Fighters in Syria and Iraq?
Foreign (Terrorist) Fighter Estimates: Conceptual and Data Issues Roughly 30,000? Policy Brief
Chuck Spinney: Divide Iraq? Get a Brain….
Should the West Partition Iraq? Some people still cling to the belief that a formal partition of Iraq into three states — sometimes referred to as Shiastan, Sunnistan, and Kurdistan — would cure the chaos the United States created when it invaded Iraq in the Spring of 2003. Partition is a simple idea that grabs …
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Jean Lievens: Social Europe on Digital Revolution – Impact on Work and Inequality
What Impact Does The Digital Revolution Have On Work And Inequality? The following is a transcript of a Social Europe podcast in which Social Europe Editor-in-Chief Henning Meyer discusses the impact of the Digital Revolution on the nature of work and inequality with Michael A. Osborne, Associate Professor in Machine Learning and Co-Director of the Oxford Martin …
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Patrick L. Smith: US & NATO Restart Cold War + NATO RECAP
We restarted the Cold War: The real story about the NATO buildup that the New York Times won’t tell you Our leaders and media push time-worn nonsense about American innocence, while taking aggressive moves. Look out EXTRACT As of this week, leaders who know nothing about leading, thinkers who do not think and opinion-shaping poseurs …
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Sepp Hasslberger: Solid State Cooling = Major Energy Savings
Solid state cooling – we might in time get rid of our fridges with their sometimes noisily running motors… We may be on the verge of a cooling revolution The next big disruption may well be semiconductor cooling. It’s been around for a hundred years in little Peltier devices that power some little refrigerated coolers …
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Event: 1-7 NOV 14 Manila Philippines LEAPFROG From Disaster – Resilience, Architecture, Ecology
Leapfrog From Disaster 1-7 November 2014, The Philippines Organized and led by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA)-USA and Leapfrog Project including the American Institute of Architects’ AIA NY Design for Risk and Reconstruction (DfRR) and AIA International, Leapfrog From Disaster will be held in the Philippines on November 1 – 7, 2014 to bring …
Jean Lievens: Self-Determination as Anti-Extractivism – Indigenous Resistance is Changing World Politics (and Countering Predatory Capitalism)
Self-Determination as Anti-Extractivism: How Indigenous Resistance Challenges World Politics Written by Manuela Picq Monday, 02 June 2014 19:46 Indigeneity is an unusual way to think about International Relations (IR). Most studies of world politics ignore Indigenous perspectives, which are rarely treated as relevant to thinking about the international (Shaw 2008; Beier 2009). Yet Indigenous …
