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CTlab projects promote discussion and understanding through digital interfaces such as weblogs, discussion fora, virtual symposia, and collaborative online workspaces. The SINeW Project explores the dynamics of Social Sciences In War.
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Christian Bleuer (Australian National University) looks to historical precedent to assess whether tribal Lashkars can help turn the tide in Afghanistan.
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Tim Stevens (CTlab/King's College London) on cyberspace, cyberrealities, and the end (or beginning) of it all...
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Michael A. Innes (University College London) reviews recent criminological research on quantifcation of the "Space Time Dynamics of Insurgent Activity in Iraq".
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Marc Tyrrell (University of Ottawa) discusses the legitimacy thresholds that govern legal and informational regimes in global counterinsurgency.
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John Matthew Barlow (CTlab/Concordia University) on manipulating the battlespace, nationalist terraforming, and the global ethics of golf course construction.
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Jeffrey Carr (Microsoft) on Russian hackers, open source intelligence, and the Grey Goose Project.
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Craig Hayden (American University) on a recent Pew Study of American news consumption habits, and leveraging media ecologies for strategic communication and public diplomacy.
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Brigitte L. Nacos (Columbia University) explains how proprietary media capabilities enable terrorist organizations.
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Stephen D.K. Ellis (University of Leiden) puts problems of sovereignty and state failure in context.
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Brian Glyn Williams (UMass - Dartmouth) addresses the academic debate over the U.S. Army's Human Terrain System.
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October 2008
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On Thursday, 9 October, BBC reporter David Loyn with Saul David, discussing Loyn's new book, Butcher and Bolt: Two Hundred Years of Foreign Engagement in Afghanistan. Read the full review.
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June 2008
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On Wednesday 11 June 08, a discussion evening on Afghanistan moderated by Nazanine Moshiri of Al Jazeera, bringing together Alastair Leithead, James Fergusson, James Appathurai, John D. McHugh, and Mawlavi Abdulsalam Zaeef. Read the full review.
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On Friday 13 June, Nobel Prize winning Economist Joseph Stiglitz in conversation with Stephanie Flanders, Economics Editor of the BBC. Read the full review.
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In Recycle, winner of the World Cinema Cinematography Award for documentary at the Sundance Festival 08, Mahmoud al-Massad returned to his hometown of Zarqa in northern Jordan - birthplace of the late terrrorist Abu Musab Al Zarqawi. Read the full review.
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COMOPS Journal
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Middle East Strategy at Harvard (MESH)
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Ghosts of Alexander
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Haft of the Spear
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DISCUSSIONS
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Christian Bleuer on Stewart's recent Time Magazine article. Bleuer, Antonio Giustozzi & Thomas Johnson discuss.
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Christian Bleuer on alternative social structures in Afghanistan. Bleuer, Armando Geller, Andrew Conway, and Michael A. Innes discuss.
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HAMDAN SYMPOSIUM
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DEFENDING BIN LADEN'S DRIVERBrian Glyn Williams' account of his experience as an expert witness in the Guantanamo Bay trial of Salim Hamdan, "bin Laden's driver", in five instalments.
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