Despite the recent terrorist attacks in Spain, the European Union has dramatically improved its counterterrorism efforts. Here’s how.
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Was the London attacker acting alone? Was he really a soldier of the Islamic State? Research on the nature of jihadism in the West reveals possible answers.
The U.S. and France responded to terrorist acts by passing surveillance laws. What could Belgium learn from their example?
How long should you keep a Belgian flag Facebook profile pic after a terrorist attack?
Apart from having little or no knowledge of religion, the new crop of Islamic State recruits come primed for violence with a different set of skills, honed through criminal activity.
The urgent need to respond to ISIS has redefined the use of “self-defense” to include attacking a nonstate threat in another country. But what are the implications of this? change?
Evidence suggests that the threat is not being taken seriously enough.
Undecided voters want facts, not scaremongering.
Ensuring complete security against terrorist attacks, especially against vulnerable targets in Europe, is all but impossible. Here’s why.
Torn between localism and pan-Europeanism, the idea of “Belgium” means almost nothing.
How easy is it to recognise a suspect from a CCTV image?
Family members share both genetics and environment to a greater extent than people in general. And this has implications for counterterrorism approaches.
For anyone who has been following Malcolm Turnbull’s progress as prime minister, his much-anticipated speech to the Lowy Institute contained few real surprises, other that the fact that it was inevitably…
The reporting of terrorist atrocities is polarising opinion in a way that is dangerous for the craft of journalism.
The road to radicalisation can morph from an idea about noble deeds.
The seeds of radicalisation were being sown long before Islamic State came along.
It’s going to take time and money, but the country must act on its terrorism problem.
Terrorist attacks that are locally sourced and financed are very hard to detect.
Violent Islamist extremism appears to have reached a crisis point in Europe with a “perfect storm” of circumstances, Malcolm Turnbull has said.
The deadly terror attack in Brussels raises the issue of safety and security at airports. But this is more about our approach to risk in any areas where people are known to gather.
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Adjunct Professor, Australia-China Relations Institute, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Global Legal Studies, Birmingham Law School, University of Birmingham
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Honorary Research Fellow, University of Exeter
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Lecturer in Politics and Contemporary History and leader of the MA in Terrorism and Security Programme, University of Salford
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Lecturer in Information Security, Governance and Leadership / Design Thinking, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor in North American History, University of Birmingham
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Distinguished Professor of Political Science and the Tagore Chair in Indian Cultures and Civilizations, Indiana University
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Industry Professor, Aircraft Systems, Tampere University
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Dean and Director of the Frederick K. Cox International Law Center, Joseph C. Hostetler - Baker Hostetler Professor of Law, Case Western Reserve University
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Reader in International Journalism, City St George's, University of London
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Professor of Contemporary European History, University of Oxford
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Researcher in Security and Defence, the Policy Institute at King's, King's College London
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Professor Emeritus, University of Sydney; Professor, Institute for Positive Psychology and Education, Australian Catholic University
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Researcher in Crowd Behaviour, University of Brighton
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Visiting Research Fellow, King's College London