by Charles Cameron | Dec 27, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — the world is not always built to our expectations, eh? ] . Here are a couple of “unexpected consequences” — unexpected in this case because the local context in which they arose isn’t the context that the...
by raffaellopantucci | Jul 2, 2015 | Monitor
A new review essay for my home institution RUSI’s own RUSI Journal. It covers a series of books written by three different individuals who managed to penetrate different parts of al Qaeda on behalf of security forces, and lived to tell their tales. The books are...
by Charles Cameron | Dec 29, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — a flag flapping in the wind, in the mind ] . You see this flag? Dear ISIS, if it takes 63 pages to explain why you are not Khawarij, you just might be Khawarij. pic.twitter.com/xfwSNt8peJ — J.M. Berger (@intelwire) December 28, 2014...
by raffaellopantucci | Apr 21, 2014 | Monitor
A new piece for an outlet I have not contributed to in a while, Jamestown’s Terrorism Monitor, this time looking at the brewing trouble there has been in Mombasa, Kenya and more generally the spread of Shabaab from Somalia into that country. The initial nub of...
by raffaellopantucci | Apr 1, 2014 | Monitor
A new piece with former colleague Laura looking at the phenomenon of criminals showing up on the battlefield in Syria. More on the topic of foreign fighters from Europe in the near future – including something longer that will eventually land! Thanks to the...
