Among the pressing security concerns of the day (Nigeria, Syria, Afghanistan, and the South China Sea stand out most prominently), Ukraine continues to dominate discussions across the North Atlantic. This attention is due in large part to concerns over a resurgent Russia and the unease over what Russia’s latest actions might spell for other East 
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May | 2014
Planning for “What’s Next”: The Annexation Shock and its Impact on SSR in Ukraine
By: Joe Derdzinski | Friday, May 16th, 2014Sending in the Military: Not a Long-Term Solution to Mexico’s Security Problems
By: Maureen Meyer | Thursday, May 15th, 2014Recent developments in Mexico highlight the ongoing security crisis in swaths of the country and suggest a repetition of past strategies that have not been able to effectively reduce crime and violence. These strategies have also led to a dramatic increase in human rights violations while doing little to strengthen the law enforcement and criminal
Corruption’s Poster Child? Understanding the Challenge to Azerbaijan’s Security Sector
By: David Law and Eric Muller | Wednesday, May 14th, 2014In 2012, the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project named Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev its corruption “person of the year.” According to the project, Aliyev was awarded this dubious distinction based on extensive reports and “well-documented evidence” that the Aliyev family had used its influence over a period of many years to take advantage of
News Roundup: 5 May – 11 May
By: SSR Resource Centre | Monday, May 12th, 2014Want to keep up to date on the SSR field? Once a week, the SSR Resource Centre posts pertinent news articles, reports, projects, and event updates on SSR over the past week. Click here to sign-up and have the SSR Weekly News Roundup delivered straight to your inbox every week!
Agency and Security Sector Reform: Insights from Southeast Asia
By: Felix Heiduk | Thursday, May 8th, 2014Southeast Asia makes for an interesting area of study as it provides us with a number of case studies where security sector reform (SSR) has not been imposed as a result of external interventions – with the exception of Timor-Leste. Instead SSR has made inroads as part of the socio-political and economic transformation processes, dubbed
Caught on the Brink: Critical Reflections on Nigeria’s Counter-Insurgency/Terror Strategy
By: Chris Kwaja | Tuesday, May 6th, 2014In his seminal work, the former US Ambassador to Nigeria John Campbell was unequivocal in his argument that Nigeria was “dancing on the brink” of real political instability, of the kind that was fully capable of truncating the state-building project. He identified several key factors that act as pointers to possible instability, including increased violence,
News Roundup: 28 April – 4 May
By: SSR Resource Centre | Monday, May 5th, 2014Want to keep up to date on the SSR field? Once a week, the SSR Resource Centre posts pertinent news articles, reports, projects, and event updates on SSR over the past week. Click here to sign-up and have the SSR Weekly News Roundup delivered straight to your inbox every week!
First we take Crimea, then we take Brighton Beach (and retake Alaska)?*
By: David Law | Thursday, May 1st, 2014Vladimir Putin’s ideology has three basic tenets. The first is that Russia has a right and a responsibility to protect Russian speakers outside the country, no matter what. The second is that Russia’s natural borders have been reduced by questionable diplomatic and political deals that must be reversed. The third is that Russia, like the
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