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Flacso Chile

What do Chileans think of the Armed Forces since the death of Augusto Pinochet? This is one of the questions which is tackled by “Captive Institutions"

 

 

Transnational Terrorism, Security and the Rule of Law

The Transnational Terrorism, Security and the Rule of Law (TTSRL) project is aimed at framing the current nature of the threat of terrorism as it exists within the EU, and at generating insight into the various response options to terrorism that are available to European governments.

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Conflict prevention and the european response to states in crisis

01/03/2007 By Ivan Briscoe

Western governments have expressed their preference for prevention over post-conflict resolution and reconstruction for over a decade, citing the humanitarian cost of intrastate war (whose victims are primarily civilians), the relaxation of nation-states’ sovereignty entitlements, and the supreme cost-effectiveness of nipping armed conflict in the bud (amply manifested by the EU’s diplomatic failures in the Balkans).

But close examination of the EU’s record on conflict prevention suggests it has yet to achieve any sort of broad institutional acceptance within the bloc for its policies, while its participation in “deep”, transformational peace-building is being profoundly affected by the global security concerns connected with “state failure”.


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Conflict prevention Congo EU Foreign Policy European Union Fragile state Haiti Latin America & Caribbean Sub-Saharan Africa Terrorism

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Bio author: Ivan Briscoe

Ivan Briscoe studied philosophy, politics and economics (PPE) at the University of Oxford, before receiving a Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship to continue his studies for a year at Harvard University. He has also completed a master's degree in Development at Madrid's Complutense University. From 2004 he has worked as the editor of the English edition of El País (Madrid). He writes often on Latin America and developing world issues for Open Democracy (www.opendemocracy.net) and The New Internationalist, and has taken part in numerous radio programmes on the BBC, Radio Nederland and Radio France International.