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An article that shares findings from my doctoral thesis* is out now in the Journal of Strategic Studies. It: - sets out current Principal Agent theoretical developments and proposes tri-liminality as a way to explain a novel relational character and worsening of challenges. - explores the evolution of Nigerian and British strategic rationales for SFA demand and supply. - maps UK military presence in Nigeria since 2009. - outlines perspectives on SFA effectiveness & challenges. It is part of an amazing and much needed Special Issue on UK Counterinsurgency, with more articles due to be published in due course. Below is a link to access through your institutional subscription. If you do not have access via this route, please send a message and I will share the link that includes the 50 free copies that come with publishing. Many thanks to the Journal's editors, two anonymous reviewers and the SI editors Hannah West & Alex Waterman. Please reach out for any thoughts and questions. *Views are my own. This article’s findings draw from my 2018–2024 doctoral project undertaken at the University of Portsmouth and precede my role at the Department for Business and Trade https://lnkd.in/e73SK-MJ

Call for papers: 'Frontiers in African Intelligence Studies'. This special issue will showcase research looking at how African intelligence services navigate threats and opportunities. Manuscript deadline: 1 August 2024. Learn more and submit your paper here: https://lnkd.in/gW8nWz89 #callforpapers #intelligenceresearch #academicjournal #academicpublishing

Publication date 2024/10/1 Reassessment of Counterintelligence in National Security: The Case of Kosovo Authors: Bahri Gashi, Ngadhnjim Brovina Journal; International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence Volume 37 Issue 4 Pages 1336 -1350 Publisher Routledge

A no fly zone to implement the ICJ order! The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has just ordered Israel to hault its military operation in Rafah. What next? United Nations Security council: US will definitely veto. Do what? I believe that States shall resort to the United Nations General Assembly to implement the ICJ order by adopting a resolution to authorize a no fly zone over Rafah to protect the civilians. Does the General Assembly have the legal power to do that? Yes, it has. Please see my previous article The Implied Powers Doctrine in the Fight against Chemical Weapons in Syria: Any Useful Purpose? (Disappointingly it’s not open access, but in that paper I argue that the General Assembly has the implied power to do that, in light of the nature of authorization resolution as distinguished from decisions. ) Can the General Assembly do that? It depends on the extent to which States are willing to uphold and save the international rule of law. منطقة حظر جوي لتنفيذ قرار محكمة العدل الدولية! أمرت للتو محكمة العدل الدولية إسرائيل بوقف عملياتها العسكرية في رفح. ماذا بعد؟ اللجوء إلي مجلس الأمن التابع للأمم المتحدة؟ الولايات المتحدة ستستخدم حق النقض بالتأكيد. ما الذي يتعين عمله ؟يتعين علي الدول أن تلجأ إلى الجمعية العامة للأمم المتحدة لتنفيذ أمر محكمة العدل الدولية باعتماد قرار يأذن بمنطقة حظر حوي فوق رفح لحماية المدنيين. هل للجمعية العامة السلطة القانونية للقيام بذلك ؟ نعم لديها، وهو الأمر الذي وضحته في مقالي السابق "The Implied Powers Doctrine in the Fight against Chemical Weapons in Syria: Any Useful purpose? هل تستطيع الجمعية العامة أن تفعل ذلك ؟ الأمر يتوقف على مدى استعداد الدول للتمسك بسيادة القانون الدولي. #gaza #humanity #icj #un #noflyzone #generalassembly #securitycouncil #veto

Captivating New Article in Discourse & Society (D&S)! Are you interested in the #discursive #pragmatics of #threatening #communications, #stance_taking, or #appraisal_signature? Do you explore #terrorist discourses of #justification, including #victim_blaming, #denying, #reversal, #discrediting, and #legitimising? How about practices of #manipulation and #retaliation? Dive into the latest Discourse & Society article (open access): “Discursive Pragmatics of Justification in Terrorist Threat Texts.” https://lnkd.in/gZtYinUf Why Read This Article? This research delves into the under-explored discursive tactics used in terrorist threat texts, shedding light on how threateners exploit moral values to constantly justify violence, fostering a ‘discourse of justification’, disaffiliation and conflict. The study employs discursive pragmatic analysis to examine the tactics and verbal practices that shape a dynamic of justification in threat texts by violent extremists from both jihadist and far-right ideologies. Key Highlights: Utilises the Appraisal framework and the ‘moral disaffiliation’ strategy. Analyses regulatory discursive functions: manipulation, deontic-retaliation, and boulomaic effect. Examines ideologically positioning functions: discrediting, blaming, denying, and (de)legitimating. Reveals how threateners’ tactics are anchored predominantly in values of propriety, capacity, valuation and veracity, shaping the primary dynamic of threatener-victim disalignment. Contributions: This study offers valuable insights into #threatener #profiling, #motivations for #violence, and the #rhetorical #structure of threat texts, contributing significantly to future research on threat-genre rhetorical structure analysis. Feel free to share! Encouraging all researchers and lecturers in the field to read and engage with this insightful work. Your perspectives and discussions are invaluable. #forensic_linguistics #discursive_pragmatics #threatening_communications #threat_genre #Acknowledgment: Thanks to Tammy Gales for shedding light on the need for research on victim-blaming in forensic contexts.

This paper is for you (1) if you’re interested in doing #onlineextremism research and want to know how to start, (2) have an #extremism project idea but struggle to get ethics approval (3) are doing extremism research and want to ensure your safety Kevin Marc B. summarized the related literature and combined it with our own experiences in the area to identify pressing issues and derive helpful guidelines. Thank you Sabine Matook for helping make these insights relevant for #informationsystems scholars.

From the Insight Monitor archives, here's a look at one of our Primers on RCMP intelligence: (Our primers are always free to read)  https://lnkd.in/gyVErXcB

My latest article with my esteemed mentor Jack Holland is out now, open access, in Political Studies. In the paper, we challenge the dominant understanding of those involved with the implementation of the Prevent Duty as merely 'actors of state'. Instead, utilising the findings of my four-year PhD study, we propose that educators and students alike should be afforded greater agency, understood as 'Enactors of State', revealing an iterative and interactive trialogical co-production of 'Security' between and across the State, educators and students: https://lnkd.in/e4sEVfSq

Here is my latest research co-authored with Rita Augestad-Knudsen on UK CT policy, and its ability to deal with the current risks presented by people with multiple and complex needs. UKCT needs to adapt its position from ‘escalating’ cases into pursue - and therefore the CJ system - and become more comfortable with putting pursue cases into Prevent multi agency forums, where needs and drivers can be addressed. There also needs to be a better dialogue about how people caught up in the CT system with identified MCN can coexist in investigations while simultaneously receiving multi agency support - to both manage risks they present and mitigate the causes of those risks. The system needs to produce better outcomes than jail for people caught up in it.

Please join us for the inaugural session of our monthly online research series, highlighting the exceptional work of our HDR candidates as they present their innovative research. Date: Tuesday 21st May 2024 Time: 12pm AEST Location: Microsoft Teams (a link will be emailed the day prior) Presented by: Jade McGarry, PhD Candidate Topic of Seminar Domestic and Family Violence (DFV) in Australia has reached epidemic proportions, with research finding that it constitutes a form of ‘terrorism’, although it is not often referred to in this way by news media, governments, or the public. The Australian Government has described terrorism as a ‘dynamic threat’, this dynamism provides space for reflective, honest, and conceptual academic investigation of terrorism as a phenomenon as well as a technique and tool used by individuals in the pursuit of power and control. This presentation examines terrorism in regard to the (in)security threat presented by the DFV issue in Australia, exploring the obstacles and implications of using the term to describe this form of violence. The purpose of this is to examine and understand how and why we use certain terminology in relation to certain phenomena, how this impacts our sense of (in)security, and how we as a society respond to the phenomena. The research consists of an inductive framing analysis of Australian news content alongside a series of semi-structured interviews with journalists and DFV experts. Please register your attendance below:  https://lnkd.in/gW_AjqJE