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Imagining 2030: Post-ISIS Middle East
Photo by Mstyslav Chernov – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia By Linda Schlegel. Linda is currently pursuing an MA in Terrorism, Security, and Society at King’s College London. While the ideological appeal of the so-called Islamic State (ISIS) remains high as exemplified by the recent attacks throughout the United… Listen ⇢
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Democracy in the UK – Why Theresa May’s comments on fighting extremism are exactly what the terrorists want
By Linda Schlegel. Linda is currently pursuing an MA in Terrorism, Security, and Society at King’s College London. Following the recent terrorist attack in London that left seven dead and several wounded and in light of the previous two attacks on Westminster Bridge and in Manchester, British Prime Minister Theresa… Listen ⇢
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Merkel – the invincible? Why the Schulz effect wouldn’t last
Photo credits: CDU NRW, https://www.cdu-nrw.de/39-landesparteitag By Lisa Dittmer, Editor of the PS21 Blog. Less than three months ago, Germany’s social democrats pulled past Merkel’s CDU in the national polls – for the first time since 2006. “Ordinary”, “approachable”, his “finger on the pulse of Germany’s issues in 2017”, Martin Schulz’s… Listen ⇢
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Sharing guns, sharing habitus?
What explains the rise of virtual, ideological terrorist networks in the West? By Linda Schlegel. Linda is currently pursuing an MA in Terrorism, Security, and Society at King’s College London. With the rise of the so-called Islamic State new questions for terrorism research emerged. Especially the social media use of… Listen ⇢
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An Unconventional Superpower
First edition of Abraham Ortelius‘ map of Asia (1572), displaying a vast network of waterways across East Asia, advocating his belief that a shipping route existed through China to the Northern Sea and thence, by way of the Northeast Passage, to Europe. By Tim Abington. Tim is a 6th… Listen ⇢
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Are lone wolves the future of terrorism?
The Promenade des Anglais on the morning after the 2016 Nice attack By Linda Schlegel In Munich a gunman shot nine people, in Würzburg a man attacked train passengers with a knife and an axe, in Ansbach a suicide bomber detonated his bomb at a music festival and in Nice… Listen ⇢
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Taiwanese Independence: Identity and Diplomacy
By Gabrielle Falardeau A year has passed since the election of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), an independence leaning party in Taiwan. At the time, these results were met with strong objections from the Chinese government because of the possible impact on the sovereignty of the island state. In Western… Listen ⇢
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Imagining 2030: the European Union 15 years after Brexit
An op-ed from the foreseeable future, by Peter Apps, PS21 executive director As Lord Nigel Farage does the round of life-streaming chat shows in the run up to the fifteenth anniversary of the Brexit vote, it is hard to believe that the 67-year-old is still almost 4 years younger than… Listen ⇢
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PS21 update – A Month of Trump
Greetings all, Hard to believe, but we are still slightly less than a month into the presidency of Donald Trump. This weekend, the launch of a North Korean ballistic missile provided the new administration with what looks set to be perhaps its first – and maybe even… Listen ⇢
Executive Director, Peter Apps.
Peter Apps is executive director of the Project for Study of the 21st Century (PS21), a global defence columnist for Reuters and presenter of the “Facing Coming Storms” global defence podcast from PS21 and the British Army’s think tank the Centre for Historical Analysis and Conflict Research (CHACR).
