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Newsbrief offers concise briefings and analysis of contemporary issues and trends in international security. Published every two months, its balance of rigour and immediacy provides an intelligent response to unfolding world events.

Issue: Nov 2011, Vol. 31, No. 6
 
Joffe_A Troubled FutureLibya and North Africa: A Troubled Future? Following the fall of the Qadhafi regime, North African states are considering the regional implications and reassessing their own relationships with the nascent Libyan state.
George Joffe
Roberts_Saudi ArabiaSaudi Arabia, Stability and the Arab Revolutions Saudi Arabia's response to the Arab Spring has ranged from apparent inertia to the financing and leadership of counter-revolution, but at all times the stability of the kingdom has been its primary objective.
David B Roberts
Sohail_Counting the CostCounting the Cost of Human Conflict As NATO concludes its military intervention in Libya, attention turns to counting the human cost of the conflict.
Shafayat Sohail
Louth and Robson_Defence ProcurementDefence Equipment, Support and Technology: White Paper, Invisible Ink! The long-awaited White Paper on Defence Equipment, Support and Technology is increasingly unlikely to serve as the reflective and considered statement of government intention and policies so desperately desired by the defence sector.
John Louth and Tansy Robson
Steel_Future ReservesFuture Reserves 2020 Personnel: Mission Impossible? The Future Reserves 2020 report articulated a series of conclusions and recommendations for enhancing the capability, utility and resilience of the British armed forces dependent on greater use of the Reserves.
Chris Steel
Ince_Bolivarian RevolutionVenezuela's Political Uncertainty: The Bolivarian Revolution at Breaking Point? The secrecy surrounding the health of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has shattered perceptions about his invincibility, given hope to his political opposition and cast doubts over the durability of Venezuela’s Bolivarian project.
Matt Ince
Khan_Aid and LossesUS Aid, Pakistani Losses and the War on Terror US economic and military aid to Pakistan has long been tied to its strategic objectives in the region, offering no ‘special treatment’ and leaving Pakistan’s economic situation increasingly unsustainable.
Hidayat Khan
Ade_Stringing the PearlsStringing the Pearls: Sino-Indian Relations in South Asia The rivalry between India and China is born of the two countries’ traditional perceptions of each other, yet the eastward shift of geopolitical power has now made this once local rivalry significant to the whole world.
Pallavi Ade
Sutyagin_History RepeatingIskander, Pershing II and Missile Defences: History Repeating Russia continues to oppose the NATO Ballistic Missile Defence, despite the proposed deployment having shifted to southeast Europe, highlighting the continuation of misperceptions, paranoia and propaganda hysteria in Moscow.
Igor Sutyagin
Foley_IC ReformPlanning Permission: US Intelligence Community Reform, 2001-11 In the wake of 9/11, the US Intelligence Community came under unprecedented pressure to reform, yet this process has failed to understand and correct some of its most fundamental weaknesses.
James Foley
Wu_Cyber TerrorThe Development and Use of Cyber Power A new dynamic has appeared in the space between hard power and traditional forms of soft power: cyber power. Yet in a globalised world using unregulated networks no one can ensure cyber security.
Rye Wu
Bennett_Fascination of BetrayalThe Fascination of Betrayal Our fascination with betrayal is evidenced in the plethora of books, television programmes and films on espionage and yet the secrecy at its core runs in contrast to a contemporary obsession with accountability and the public’s supposed ‘right to know’.
Gill Bennett
 
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