If it comes to fruition, Kenya will be at the forefront of easing the governmental paperwork logjam. According the Daily Nation, the East African country is in the process of planning “digital villages” where citizens can visit to download applications and documents such as birth certificates and file their tax returns online. The website quotes [...]

It’s the midst of holiday time, a time when those of us partaking of the festivities enjoy the fruits of the holiday season. It’s also the time when we, hopefully, consider the ripple effects of our consumption. ISN Security Watch examines the effects of scarcity and abundance with three articles. In Reaping What Children Sow [...]

Recently, Israel has experienced several inner conflicts. But this time, Palestinians have nothing to do with them. It is a series of conflicts and tensions between the two faces of the Israeli population: Orthodox Jews and secular Jews. As a report by the Institute for National Security Studies of Tel Aviv mentions, “a different but [...]

In light of our weekly theme – religion and international affairs – we thought we’d link to an excellent reading list compiled by Foreign Affairs on this very timely and often ignored topic. Whether seen as a civilizational clash; a clash between modernity and traditionalism; secularism and religion, the nature of conflict in the international [...]

From DC to Tel Aviv to Riyhad and all points in between, religion is increasingly taking center stage in the political world…or is it? As the holiday season approaches, this question is our weekly theme. Dr Jonathan Fox of Bar Ilan University asks in this week’s Special Report whether there is a resurgence of religion [...]