Killing Osama bin Ladin – a time to rejoice?
Christina Hellmich The news of Osama bin Ladin’s death on May 2, 2011 triggered spontaneous outbursts of joy and celebration in the United States. Justice had – at last – been done as the leader of...
View ArticleTheir Lordships should beware: there is an overwhelming consensus behind...
Alan Renwick The government launched its proposals for reform of the House of Lords two weeks ago. At the time, there were widespread rumours that senior Labour and Conservative peers were gearing...
View ArticleRatko Mladic faces trial – let’s not get carried away
Dominik Zaum Last week the former commander of the Bosnian Serb army, General Ratko Mladic, appeared for the first time in front of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY),...
View ArticleWhen regime type matters: humanitarian intervention and regime change in Libya
Oisín Tansey William Hague’s weekend mini-break to Benghazi provided him with an opportunity to show support (and put a little pressure) on Libya’s Transitional National Council (TNC), while also...
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The AV referendum debate: Analysing the newspaper coverage
Alan Renwick Now that my student and wunderkind research assistant Michael Lamb has finished his exams, he is hard at work analysing the newspaper coverage of the AV referendum debates. The full...
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Bureaucratic Politics Limits the Impact of Academic Strategists
Beatrice Heuser “Bureaucratic politics theories or explanations of why particular public policy decisions got made the way they did stress the motivation by the relevant officials in the government...
View ArticleRevising Prevent: the Politics of Counter-Terrorism and Existential Angst
The government recently announced plans to revise its Prevent strategy, one of the core strands of its counter-terrorism policy. In this post, Nadya Ali, a PhD student in the School of Politics and...
View ArticleSleepwalking into Strategy
Patrick Porter Senior Lecturer in Defence Studies at King’s College London, and from September 2011, Reader in Strategic Studies at University of Reading. Must strategy be named to be practiced?...
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