The Year 2023: A Feast of Common Misfortune
It doesn’t take one to be a Nostradamus to predict the general trends in international affairs for 2023 with certainty. This year will be...
International ordering and great power competition: Lessons from Central Asia
Overseas U.S basing agreements and their under-lying bargains are embedded in a broader ecology of “international orders” and emerging counterorders. In the initial post-Cold...
Scientists ‘can tell from a brain’s response’ whether owner is left- or right-wing
Israeli scientists say they are able to establish where people stand on politics by scanning their brains. Researchers at Tel Aviv University used magnetic...
Dark Net, Social Media and Extremism: Addressing Indonesian Counterterrorism on the Internet
It is not a novel fact that social media opens doors for extremist groups in Indonesia. A number of studies and investigations have continuously...
As democracy comes under threat globally, isn’t it time for a system check?
The ripple effect of the egregious and multi-pronged attacks, targeting all the pillars of democracy in the United States offers a cautionary tale. But...
Global Urban Analytics for Resilient Defence
Understanding the mechanics that cause conflict and identifying multi-scale population areas that are at risk of conflict Research areas Mathematical physics || Information Theory...
The evolution of the concept of information warfare in the modern information society of the post-truth era
The development of technology, communication tools and the spread of Internet access in the 21st century, have made the modern citizen of Western liberal...
Realising the EU Hybrid Toolbox: Opportunities and Pitfalls
In recent years European and other nations have been increasingly targeted by different manipulation or coercion tactics that remain under the threshold of violence,...
Beyond the Quad: Booming Security Cooperation Efforts in the Indo-Pacific
New defense and security cooperation efforts are springing up across the Indo-Pacific, between some Quad members and those outside the grouping. Quad partners are...
Civil Society Actors in Indonesia: The Emergence of a Militant Counterculture
While comprehensive information and analysis on Indonesia’s NGO sector are hard to come by, it is currently estimated that there are an estimated 2,293...