Category: Uncategorized

Categories
Uncategorized

ISN Launches New Service – ISN Insights

International Relations and Security Network (ISN) logo

Today we are pleased to announce the launch of our new editorial service – ISN Insights – designed to provide you with daily in-depth analysis of the most critical international trends and events of our day.

ISN Insights will provide you with original ISN analyses, expert commentaries and comprehensive backgrounders on the hot-button and underreported issues shaping our world in the 21st century. Written by well-established and up-and-coming researchers, academics, policymakers and specialized journalists, ISN Insights represents a diversity of voices on international and security issues that do not necessarily receive proper attention in traditional media outlets.

ISN Insights merges the best of our two established editorial products – ISN Security Watch and ISN Special Reports – into a streamlined, one-stop shop for international affairs and security coverage. Like ISN Security Watch, ISN Insights will continue to provide you with daily editorial updates – publishing an original ISN article Monday through Thursday, complemented by a Friday ISN Podcast interview with a leading expert in the field. In addition, in-depth articles on macro trends and events of international relevance will also be regularly featured, as we have long done with ISN Special Reports.

But that’s not all: Like ISN Special Reports did before it, ISN Insights offers you a package of information, combining an original article with our extensive digital library holdings on the topic. And this package is now available each and every day – providing you with an unprecedented breadth and depth of coverage of the issues that matter most to you.

One element of our editorial agenda hasn’t changed, however: Our commitment to providing you with the expert insights that help keep you abreast of the most pressing international relations and security topics of our day.

Categories
Uncategorized

ISN Quiz: Iraq

Test your knowledge on Iraq, the topic of this week’s Special Report.

[QUIZZIN 37]

Categories
Uncategorized

Iraq on Its Own

Lone US solider looks out over the Diyala River Valley in Iraq, photo: US Army/flickr
Lone US solider looks out over the Diyala River Valley in Iraq, photo: US Army/flickr

With US combat troop operations in Iraq at an end, less than 50,000 US service personnel remain in a country mired in political quagmire. This week the ISN looks toward Iraq’s future on its own in the wake of US occupation.

This ISN Special Report contains the following content:

  • An Analysis by Philip McCrum about the deleterious security and economic impact of Iraq’s stalled political process.
  • A Podcast interview with Dr Kristian Ulrichsen on the challenges facing Iraq on its path to post-war reconstruction and recovery.
  • Security Watch articles covering the US troop presence in Iraq from invasion to withdrawal.
  • Publications housed in our Digital Library, including US Congressional Research Service assessments of the March 2010 elections.
  • Primary Resources, like the full-text of US President Obama’s address to the nation on the end of combat operations in Iraq.
  • Links to relevant websites, such as ‘Ground Truth: Conditions, Contrasts, and Morale’, which provides the results of a survey of US troops in Iraq on the conditions and morale of service members in the war against terrorism.
  • Our IR Directory, featuring the Washington, DC-based Iraq Foundation, working for democracy and human rights in Iraq and for a better international understanding of Iraq’s potential as a contributor to political stability and economic progress in the Middle East.
Categories
Uncategorized

ISN Quiz: Surviving the Coming Scarcity

Test your knowledge about scarcity, the topic of our latest Special Report.

[QUIZZIN 34]

Categories
Uncategorized

Afghanistan in the Balance

Afghanistan in a precarious balance between great powers, photo: imagemonkey/flickr

Afghanistan has long been precariously positioned within the international balance of power, where it has served as both playground and graveyard of rival nation-states. This week the ISN takes a closer look at Afghanistan’s continued importance in relation to great power politics, in addition to its more closely documented localized conflicts.

This ISN Special Report contains the following content:

  • An Analysis by Professor John Brobst, on the importance of Afghanistan in relation to great power politics.
  • A Podcast interview with Professor Anatol Lieven of King’s College London explores the fundamental difficulties that the international community faces in trying to forge a peace or build a nation in a country with a fraught history, deep divisions and a disdain for outside interference.
  • Security Watch articles about the Wikileaks and McCrystal scandals, the donor gap and much more.
  • Publications housed in our Digital Library, including the Institute of South Asian Studies’ papers on President Zardari in China and the Afghan peace jirga.
  • Primary Resources, like the full-text of President Obama’s June 23rd statement on the General McCrystal firing.
  • Links to relevant websites, such as the ‘Afghanistan Conflict Monitor’ blog, an initiative of the Human Security Report at the School for International Studies at Simon Fraser University.
  • Our IR Directory, featuring the Afghanistan Women Council, designed to assist and empower Afghan women and children.