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This Week in ISN Insights…

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Post date 06/06/2011
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It's week 23 on our editorial calendar, Photo: Leo Reynolds, flickr

Coming up this week in our ISN Insights coverage:

The Kofi Annan Foundation’s Albert Souza Mulli tackles the growing scourge of transnational organized crime on Monday.

On Tuesday, Professor John Mueller of Ohio State University opines about the overblown threat of nuclear weapons.

Dr Alex Wilner of the Center for Security Studies at ETH Zurich argues that combating terrorism involves a better understanding of the radicalization process on Wednesday.

And on Thursday, Francesco Milan, a Researcher with the Ankara-based International Strategic Research Organization, previews Turkey’s 12 June general elections.

And in case you missed any of last week’s special, expanded coverage of the International Security Forum, catch up here with articles on: US-Iranian relations; envisaging the security challenges of a post-nuclear world; uncovering “participationist Islam”; reversing the excesses of post-9/11 policy; developing a more realistic cyberwar threat assessment; and managing China’s rapid rise.

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This Week in ISN Insights…

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It’s week 22 on our editorial calendar, Photo: Leo Reynolds/flickr

The ISN is pleased to offer you a special, expanded edition of ISN Insights this week, dedicated specifically to coverage of the International Security Forum (ISF) taking place 30 May-1 June 2011, in Zurich:

* On Monday, we take a closer look at the stalled state of US-Iranian relations, and envisage a world without nuclear weapons, with articles, respectively, from Dr John Limbert, Professor of Middle Eastern Studies at the US Naval Academy, and Alyson JK Bailes, Visiting Professor at the Univeristy of Iceland and former Director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).

* Tuesday’s focus on the ten-year anniversary of 9/11 offers selections from Dr Paul Pillar, Visiting Professor and Director of Studies at the Center for Peace and Security Studies, Georgetown University, and Dr Lorenzo Vidino, Visiting Fellow at the Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich.

* We’ll offer up on Wednesday an article on managing China’s rapid rise by Dr Kerry Brown, Head of the Asia Program at Chatham House, and a piece by the CSS’ Dr Myriam Dunn Cavelty, on developing a more realistic cyberthreat assessment.

And in case you missed any of last week’s coverage, you can catch up here on: the 20-year anniversary of Operation Solomon; opinion polls and IR; the challenges facing the new European External Action Service (EEAS); and understanding Pakistan’s nuclear rationale.

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It's week 20 in our editorial calendar, Photo: Leo Reynolds/flickr

This week in ISN Insights and Podcasts, you can look forward to the following content:

On Monday, Salma M Siddiqui, a Lecturer at the University of London International Program in Islamabad , examines the rising tensions between Pakistan and its neighboring states in the wake of bin Laden’s death.

Ankara-based Researcher for the International Strategic Research Organization, Francesco Milan, takes a closer look at Turkey’s growing defense ambitions on Tuesday.

The tension between India’s search for ‘strategic autonomy’ and its growing relationship with the US is analyzed by Dr Harsh V Pant, Reader in International Relations at King’s College London, on Wednesday.

On Thursday, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, Dr Dean Baker, opines about the economic dangers of ECB austerity policies in countries like Greece.

Barbara Haering will discuss explosive weapons in our Friday podcast.

And in case you missed any of last week’s coverage, you can find it here on: resolving the Kuriles conflict; US military ‘brain drain’ and retention problems; enhanced US-India space cooperation; the efficacy of bin Laden’s assassination; and a podcast on Nigeria.