Leiden Security and Global Affairs Blog

Responding to terror: dealing with fragmentation in crisis management operations

Fragmentation is one of the least understood problems in crisis management. Failure to understand fragmentation means emergency responders are unable to mitigate critical situations in the recent terrorist attacks around Europe.

Jeroen Wolbers • 21-01-2019

Ideology in Rojava: The Forgotten Element

The conflict in Syria has provided the opportunity for the PYD to implement a new form of democratic confederalism. A more nuanced understanding of the PYD's ideology can improve understanding of contemporary developments in Syria.

James Hewitt • 14-01-2019

The “Deep State”: A Problem that the CIA Helped to Create

Intelligence services need secrets. But excessive secrecy has consequences.

Simon Willmetts • 17-12-2018

Ctrl-Alt-Delete: is Digital Diplomacy Worth the Risk?

The emergence of social media networks has changed diplomacy into a more open, transparent and participative profession. When used properly, and handled with skill, digital diplomacy can be a very useful addition to traditional diplomacy.

Annechris Koebrugge • 10-12-2018

Responsible behaviour in cyberspace: dispatches from The Hague (and New York and Paris)

Diplomats face the task to make the process of cyber norms work – or perhaps in some cases, derail – in this double setting. For scholars, the norms process has just gained new layers and dimensions to study.

Dennis Broeders • 03-12-2018

Book Review: R. Bergman, Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations

It is the kind of daring operations that secured the reputation of Israeli intelligence in the international public imagination as a ruthless and effective organization.

Stef Wittendorp • 26-11-2018

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