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New tech creates terrorism financing risks
Fourteen years after the USA PATRIOT Act ushered in heightened standards for anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-terrorism financing (CFT) rules, more critical evaluation of this architecture is needed to adapt to evolving threats and assist industries impacted by AML and CFT rules. Listen ⇢
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Chinese actions demonstrate their expansionary intentions
There is always a time when the intentions of an individual or that of a nation shift from the hidden to uncloaked. That is the point where the wise prepare for action. Listen ⇢
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Imagining 2030: Social Media In China
Imagining 2030 is a series in which PS21 writers describe the world as they see it in 14 years time. Listen ⇢
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Imagining 2030: A Walk Through Heathrow
Introducing the first piece in our Imagining 2030 series in which PS21 writers describe the world as they see it in 14 years time. Listen ⇢
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Will new US visa rules create second-class citizens?
On December 8, Congress passed the Visa Waiver Program Improvement and Terrorist Travel Prevention Act, which had been folded into the omnibus annual spending bill. The new VWP regulations single out certain citizens of the 38 European and Asian countries that are in visa waiver partnership with the U.S. Anyone… Listen ⇢
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Is the risk of nuclear war rising?
A printer friendly version available here. Peter Apps is Reuters global defence correspondent. He is currently on sabbatical as executive director of the Project for Study of the 21st Century (PS21). On Sunday, November 28, Californians watched with bemusement and in some cases alarm as a bright light moved across… Listen ⇢
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PS21 Update: week ending Dec 11
else Hi all, The year is quickly coming to an end, Friday being exactly two weeks to go to Christmas. With that and holiday festivities now in full force it’s been a quieter week here at PS21, but we’ve still published some great pieces. Jack Goldstone wrote a piece on Syria,… Listen ⇢
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Strategic Narratives without Strategy
Since 9/11 it has been hard to pin down a singular, compelling narrative that has defined Western military interventions, in part due to the lack of overarching strategy that established their objectives. An inconclusive decade of conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan has left the electorates of Western countries wary of… Listen ⇢
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What the West should have learned from its long ‘war on terror’
Behind President Barack Obama’s Sunday night speech lies an awkward reality. Ever since 9/11, the West has been fighting two in some ways separate, but deeply intertwined battles against Islamist militancy. 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).
