How to protect nuclear plants from terrorists
Apr 14, 2016 06:55 am UTC| Insights & Views
In the wake of terrorist attacks in Brussels, Paris, Istanbul, Ankara and elsewhere, nations are rethinking many aspects of domestic security. Nuclear plants, as experts have long known, are potential targets for...
Apr 01, 2016 16:07 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Following the March 2016 bombings in Brussels, Donald Trump stated: We have to be smart … Were taking in people without real documentation. We dont know where they are coming from … they could be...
Is Belgium's nuclear security up to scratch?
Mar 30, 2016 12:48 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Belgiums counter-terrorism efforts are once again being called into question following the recent tragedies in Brussels. The attacks were carried out against soft targets the public check-in area of Brussels Airport and...
Belgium has divided and decentralized itself almost out of existence
Mar 26, 2016 06:23 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Only days after the arrest of Salah Abdeslam, one of the Belgian-based organizers of the Paris attacks in November 2015, Brussels was rocked by two suicide attacks that killed more than 30 people and injured more than...
Could super recognisers be the latest weapon in the war on terror?
Mar 24, 2016 23:28 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology
In the wake of the terror attacks on Brussels, Belgian police rapidly identified two of the suicide bombers that carried out the attacks: brothers Khalid and Brahim el-Bakraoui, both Belgian nationals. The identification...
The journey from jihad to Islamist terrorism
Mar 23, 2016 17:32 pm UTC| Insights & Views
The twin bomb attacks in Brussels mark a new chapter in the unfinished book on the history of Islamist terrorism. To understand the terrorist attacks we must examine the wider circumstances. These include the hypothesis...
The bitter fruits of alienation: Belgium's struggle is the problem of our age
Mar 23, 2016 17:31 pm UTC| Insights & Views
What we feared has happened, remarked Charles Michel, the prime minister of Belgium, in the immediate aftermath of the horrible and violent attacks on Brussels airport and the Maelbeek metro station on March 22. Yes,...
South Africa’s plan to move away from coal: 8 steps to make it succeed
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
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