Featured Posts

• Afghanistan '96: The Legacy of Information Failures
  Christian Bleuer (Australian National University) addresses the historical shortcomings of US strategic communications and public diplomacy in Afghanistan.
• Do Sociopaths Dream of Electric Sheep?
  Michael A. Innes (University College London) discusses John Seabrook's 10 November New Yorker piece, "Suffering Souls: The Search for the Roots of Psychopathy".
• Imagined Slumscapes
  John Matthew Barlow (Concordia University) explores early urban reform efforts in North America, and how this problematized slums as archetypes of insecure space.
• Autonomous Weapons and Asymmetric Conflict
  Charli Carpenter (UMass – Amherst) engages with law professor Kenneth Anderson’s arguments on the ethics of autonomous weapons.
• Insurgency and Counterinsurgency Franchisees
  Christian Bleuer (Australian National University) looks to historical precedent to assess whether tribal Lashkars can help turn the tide in Afghanistan.
• Legitimacy as a Battlespace
  Marc Tyrrell (Carleton University) discusses the legitimacy thresholds that govern legal and informational regimes in global counterinsurgency.
• From the Lake of Fire: Responsible Technology
  Tim Stevens (CTlab/King's College London) on cyberspace, cyberrealities, and the end (or beginning) of it all...
• Making the Landscape
  John Matthew Barlow (CTlab/Concordia University) on manipulating the battlespace, nationalist terraforming, and the global ethics of golf course construction.
• Adaptive Argumentation For Mediated Publics
  Craig Hayden (American University) on a recent Pew Study of American news consumption habits, and leveraging media ecologies for strategic communication and public diplomacy.
• Media Power and Terrorists
  Brigitte L. Nacos (Columbia University) explains how proprietary media capabilities enable terrorist organizations.
• The State of State Failure
  Stephen D.K. Ellis (University of Leiden) puts problems of sovereignty and state failure in context.
• Human Terrain Mapping: An Historian's Perspective
  Brian Glyn Williams (UMass - Dartmouth) addresses the academic debate over the U.S. Army's Human Terrain System.