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ISN Insights: Look Back, Week Ahead

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Post date 17/01/2011
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New ISN Insights week starts today, photo: Michael Randall/flickr

Last week, ISN Insights looked at:

Vietnam’s geopolitical status in a piece by Denis Burke

E-diplomacy and it’s impact on foreign policy in an article by Fergus Hanson

The thriving private military security industry in a piece by Jody Ray Bennett

Colombia’s fast-evolving foreign policy in an article by Eliot Brockner

Haiti’s long path to recovery in Friday’s ISN Podcast with Aimee Ansari of Oxfam

This week we’ll examine the following issues: Pakistan’s internal turmoil, Hungary’s deep polarization and the recent media law controversy, US long-range strike capabilities, Africa’s increasingly optimistic economic outlook, and the issue of corruption.

Make sure to tune in each day for the newest ISN Insights package. And if you’re an active Twitter or Facebook user, look us up and become a follower/fan!

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ISN Insights: Look Back, Week Ahead

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Post date 10/01/2011
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The new ISN Insights week starts today, photo: Nicole North Rodriguez/flickr

Last week, ISN Insights examined the following issues:

The growing importance of critical minerals in world politics and for US national security in a piece by Christine Parthemore.

The policy options to reduce the attractiveness of crime in places like Mexico and El Salvador in an article by Viridiana Rios.

The rise of ‘sovereign wealth’ and its impact on the world economy and geopolitics in a piece by An Jacobs and Matthew Hulbert.

Sudan’s referendum in an article by Martina Santschi and David Lanz.

Climate change and carbon politics in Friday’s ISN Podcast with Dr. Jean Pascal van Ypersele, Vice Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel in Climate Change (IPCC).

This week we will be looking at: Vietnam’s geopolitical rise, the growing importance of E-diplomacy, the future of private military security companies, Colombia’s shifting foreign policy and human rights in Haiti.

Make sure to tune in each day for the newest ISN Insights package. And if you’re an active Twitter or Facebook user, look us up and become a follower/fan!

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New ISN Partner: SAGE International

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Post date 07/01/2011
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The latest ISN Partner

We are happy to announce that SAGE International has joined the ISN’s worldwide partner network.

Lead by Dr John Bruni, SAGE is an independent, non-profit virtual think tank, consultancy and education service provider based in South Australia. It combines the talents of an interdisciplinary network of Australian and international scholars and researchers analyzing contemporary statecraft and strategy, especially the interface of political, psychological and philosophical motivations and the application of force.

The ISN Digital Library now includes SAGE’s publication series “Ideas and Concepts” with a recent paper on the difficulties of Iran’s foreign policy in Lebanon and another one on Julian Assange entitled “Neither Saint nor Sinner”.

Welcome on board, SAGE International!

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New ISN Partner: Institute for Economics and Peace

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New ISN Partner

The ISN happily welcomes the Institute for Economics and Peace as a new partner.

Based in Sydney, Australia, the Institute is an independent not-for-profit research organization dedicated to developing the inter-relationships between business, peace and economic development.

The Institute’s flagship project is the Global Peace Index (GPI), a yearly ranking listing 149 nations according to their ‘absence of violence’. The GPI is composed of qualitative and quantitative indicators from highly respected sources, which combine factors internal to a country and external to it.

The Institute for Economics and Peace conducts research in the following areas:

Statistical analyses to identify the structures and causes of peace;
Economic assessment of the value of increased levels of peacefulness to global GDP;
Definition and implication of the “Peace Industry”;
Exploration of multinational attitudinal surveys and their relevance to societal peacefulness;
Analyses of the relationship between peace, markets, costs and profit;
Investigation of the world’s most peaceful industries;
Development of statistical methods to determine how to calculate the probable impact of reducing levels of violence and increasing levels of peacefulness on a company’s market size.

In addition to research, the Institute also conducts education, generates dialogue, and publicizes the output of its activities with a view to impacting the public agenda.

We are very glad to have the Institute for Economics and Peace as part of the International Relations and Security Network and look forward to a fruitful cooperation.

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ISN Insights: What 2011 Has In Store

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Post date 03/01/2011
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fireworks — Welcome to 2011! photo: Chris/flickr

Departing slightly from our usual format, here’s a taster for what ISN Insights will be looking at in the weeks and months to come:

This week: the economics of drug trafficking, the increasing importance of ‘rare earths’ minerals in global trade and security, the rise of sovereign wealth funds, Sudan’s upcoming referendum and climate change.

In the coming weeks and months we’ll be exploring the following issues and more: Vietnam’s geopolitical position, EU foreign policy, Cuba’s economy, rising Chinese naval power, Yemen, US-Colombian relations, economic growth in Africa, hardliners vs. reformists in Libya, E-diplomacy and much, much more.

Stay tuned and connected in 2011: Read the ISN Blog, follow us on Twitter and ‘Like’ us on Facebook.