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• • Do Sociopaths Dream of Electric Sheep?
    Michael A. Innes (University College London) discusses John Seabrook's 10 November New Yorker piece, "Suffering Souls: The Search for the Roots of Psychopathy".
  • Imagined Slumscapes
    John Matthew Barlow (Concordia University) explores early urban reform efforts in North America, and how this problematized slums as archetypes of insecure space.
  • Autonomous Weapons and Asymmetric Conflict
    Charli Carpenter (UMass – Amherst) engages with law professor Kenneth Anderson’s arguments on the ethics of autonomous weapons.
  • Insurgency and Counterinsurgency Franchisees
    Christian Bleuer (Australian National University) looks to historical precedent to assess whether tribal Lashkars can help turn the tide in Afghanistan.
  • Legitimacy as a Battlespace
    Marc Tyrrell (Carleton University) discusses the legitimacy thresholds that govern legal and informational regimes in global counterinsurgency.
  • From the Lake of Fire: Responsible Technology
    Tim Stevens (CTlab/King's College London) on cyberspace, cyberrealities, and the end (or beginning) of it all...
  • Making the Landscape
    John Matthew Barlow (CTlab/Concordia University) on manipulating the battlespace, nationalist terraforming, and the global ethics of golf course construction.
  • Adaptive Argumentation for Mediated Publics
    Craig Hayden (American University) on a recent Pew Study of American news consumption habits, and leveraging media ecologies for strategic communication and public diplomacy.
  • Media Power and Terrorists
    Brigitte L. Nacos (Columbia University) explains how proprietary media capabilities enable terrorist organizations.
  • The State of State Failure
    Stephen D.K. Ellis (University of Leiden) puts problems of sovereignty and state failure in context.
  • Human Terrain Mapping: An Historian's Perspective
    Brian Glyn Williams (UMass - Dartmouth) addresses the academic debate over the U.S. Army's Human Terrain System.

• • Saving Afghanistan: A Response to Rory Stewart
    Christian Bleuer on Stewart's recent Time Magazine article. Bleuer, Antonio Giustozzi & Thomas Johnson discuss.
  • Modeling Afghan Power Structures
    Christian Bleuer on alternative social structures in Afghanistan. Bleuer, Armando Geller, Andrew Conway, and Michael A. Innes discuss.

• October 2008
  • Political Violence and the Novelist
    On Monday, 27 October, the Royal Society of Literature hosted a panel discussion with four novelists - Adam Foulds, Chris Petit, Kamila Shamsie, and Pankaj Mishra - whose works are about violent political events. Read the full review.
  • UK Premiere of Bad Voodoo's War
    On Friday 10th October, the Frontline Club hosted the UK premiere of Bad Voodoo’s War by American director Deborah Scranton, followed by a Q&A chaired by BBC Middle East correspondent Paul Wood. Read the full review.
  • BBC's David Loyn on Intervention in Afghanistan
    On Thursday, 9 October, BBC reporter David Loyn with Saul David, discussing Loyn's new book, Butcher and Bolt: Two Hundred Years of Foreign Engagement in Afghanistan. Read the full review.
• June 2008
  • Media Talk on Assassination & Insurgency
    On Wednesday 11 June 08, a discussion evening on Afghanistan moderated by Nazanine Moshiri of Al Jazeera, bringing together Alastair Leithead, James Fergusson, James Appathurai, John D. McHugh, and Mawlavi Abdulsalam Zaeef. Read the full review.
  • Joseph Stiglitz on the Three Trillion Dollar War
    On Friday 13 June, Nobel Prize winning Economist Joseph Stiglitz in conversation with Stephanie Flanders, Economics Editor of the BBC. Read the full review.
  • Mahmoud al-Massad's documentary film Recycle
    In Recycle, winner of the World Cinema Cinematography Award for documentary at the Sundance Festival 08, Mahmoud al-Massad returned to his hometown of Zarqa in northern Jordan - birthplace of the late terrrorist Abu Musab Al Zarqawi. Read the full review.