Strife Series

Strife’s Series Editors regularly publish series analysing some of the most pressing and timely issues of our day. Our aim is to offer a deeper approach to each topic from some of the best and brightest in our department and beyond. You can also find the series featured in past editions of Strife Journal.

Strife Series on Counter-Terrorism in Modern Warfare (November 2020)

Strife Series on Counter-Terrorism in Modern Warfare: Introduction - Joanna Lancashire

Strife Series on Counter-Terrorism in Modern Warfare (Part 1) - Lucía Ruiz Vila

Strife Series on Counter-Terrorism in Modern Warfare (Part 2) - Anahad Kaur Khangura

Strife Series on Counter-Terrorism in Modern Warfare (Part 3) - Joanna Lancashire

Strife Series on Climate Change and Conflict (September 2020)

Strife Series on Climate Change and Conflict: Introduction - Gemma MacIntyre

Strife Series on Climate Change and Conflict (Part I) - Annabelle Green

Strife Series on Climate Change and Conflict (Part II) - Anatol Lieven

Strife Series on Climate Change and Conflict (Part III) - Eloise Judd

Strife Series on Climate Change and Conflict (Part IV) - Musab Alnour Ibrahim

Strife Series on Genocide and its Relevance Today (May 2020)

Strife Series on Genocide and its Relevance Today: Introduction - Anna Plunkett

Strife Series on Genocide and its Relevance Today (Part I) - Elisabeth Beck

Strife Series on Genocide and its Relevance Today (Part II) - Hannah Rose

Strife Series on Genocide and its Relevance Today (Part III) - Karla Drpić

Strife Series on Genocide and its Relevance Today (Part IV) - Mariana Boujikian

Strife Series on Genocide and its Relevance Today (Part V) - Anna Plunkett

Strife Series on Human Rights, Security, and Diplomacy in the Asia Pacific (March 2020)

Strife Series on Human Rights, Security, and Diplomacy in the Asia Pacific: Introduction – Anna Tan

Strife Series on Human Rights, Security, and Diplomacy in the Asia Pacific (Part I): China’s Turbulent Year: 2019 – Kerry Brown

Strife Series on Human Rights, Security, and Diplomacy in the Asia Pacific (Part II): China, Myanmar, War Crimes, and the Issue of National Sovereignty – Anna Tan

Strife Series on Human Rights, Security, and Diplomacy in the Asia Pacific (Part III): Taiwan Elections: Continuity, Change, and the Cross-Strait Conundrum – Evita Liagka

Strife Series on Human Rights, Security, and Diplomacy in the Asia Pacific (Part IV): South Korea’s Dangerous Silence on Human Rights Abuses in North Korea – Yeseul Woo

Strife Series on Human Rights, Security, and Diplomacy in the Asia Pacific (Part V): The First Tech War? Why the Korea-Japan Tensions are about US-China Competition on AI – Yeseul Woo

The Funding of Terrorism (August 2019)

Introduction to the Series on the Funding of Terrorism - Alexandra Roberts

The Funding of Terrorism (Part I): Hookahs and Honey: Funding Terrorism through ‘Benign’ Activities - Ian Ralby

The Funding of Terrorism (Part II): Terrorist Financing Hidden among Commercial Ties: Venezuela, Iran and Hezbollah - Vanessa Neumann

The Funding of Terrorism (Part III): America Needs a New Economic Patriot Act - Michael Greenwald

The Funding of Terrorism (Part IV): A Trust Deficit is Undermining the Investigation of Terrorist Financing across MENA - Jack Watling

Cyberwarfare and State Perspectives (July 2018)

Introduction to the Series on Cyberwarfare and State Perspectives: Strategic effectiveness in Cyberspace – Shivali Bhatt

Cyberwarfare and State Perspectives (Part I): Offensive Cyber Capabilities and Medium Powers: Two Case Studies – Andreas Haggman

Cyberwarfare and State Perspectives (Part II): Deception in Cyberspace: Nation States and False Flag operations – Amy Ertan

Cyberwarfare and State Perspectives (Part III): The argument for a more critical analysis on the United States – Shivali Bhatt

United Nations Peacekeeping (March - April 2018)

Introduction to the Series on UN Peacekeeping: Peacekeeping has never been harder – Felix Manig

UN Peacekeeping (Part I): The Fate of UN Peacekeeping and the Changing Tides of Geopolitics – Dr Samir Puri

UN Peacekeeping (Part II): Security Challenges in UN Peacekeeping Operations: How Best to “Fight Back”? – Lenoy Barkai

UN Peacekeeping (Part III): Bystanders for 7 years – is the UN ready for a peacekeeping mission in Syria? – Diego Salama and Ortrun Merkle

UN Peacekeeping (Part IV): Lessons Through a Gender Lens: The Efforts and Failures of UNMISS – Caitlyn OFlaherty

UN Peacekeeping (Part V): The Future of UN Peacekeeping Operations – Felix Manig

National Perspectives in North-East Asian Rivalries (January 2018)

Introduction to the Series on National Perspectives in North-East Asian Rivalries: One Region, Different Standpoints – Andrea Fischetti

National Perspectives in North-East Asian Rivalries (Part I): The View from Pyongyang – Ashley Ryan

National Perspectives in North-East Asian Rivalries (Part II): The View from Tokyo – Andrea Fischetti

National Perspectives in North-East Asian Rivalries (Part III): the Taiwan issue and mismatching identities: an ontological security perspective – Dean Chen

National Perspectives in North-East Asian Rivalries (Part IV): Pyongyang, the View from Beijing – Riccardo Cociani

British Security Post-Brexit (March 2017)

British Security Post-Brexit (Part I): Brexit, Empire and British Security – Dr Samir Puri

British Security Post-Brexit (Part II): Stormy Seas: The UK-US Relationship under Trump – Christina Dutton

British Security Post-Brexit (Part III): Security implications of post-Brexit asylum laws – Felix Manig

British Security Post-Brexit (Part IV): Hard Brexit & Europe’s Foreign Policy Challenges – Aaron Burnett

British Security Post-Brexit (Part V): Brexit Defence Implications: Mind the Gap – Alfonc Rakaj

Counterterrorism and Human Rights (January 2017)

Introduction to the Series on Counterterrorism and Human Rights: Managing a delicate relationship - Felix Manig

Counterterrorism and Human Rights (Part I): Countering terror in a liberal democratic state: a case of norm contestation - Lenoy Barkai

Counterterrorism and Human Rights (Part II): Divergent counterterrorism strategies in France and the UK - Felix Manig

Counterterrorism and Human Rights (Part III): Silencing political dissent through counterterrorism measures in Bangladesh - Athul Menath

Counterterrorism and Human Rights (Part IV): Balances, trade-offs and divisions of labour in the strategy of countering terrorism - Dr Samir Puri

Counterterrorism and Human Rights (Part V): A perpetual state of emergency: the case of France - Silvia Sclafani

Grand Strategy (December 2016)

war-board-games Introduction to the series on Grand Strategy - Whither Grand Strategy - John A. Pennell

Grand Strategy (Part I): Donald Trump’s grand strategy - Brian Babb

Grand Strategy (Part II): Is Trump saying “Sayonara” to U.S. Grand Strategy in East Asia? - Andrea Fischetti

Grand Strategy (Part III): What a Trump victory means for South Asia - Jonata Anicetti

Grand Strategy (Part IV): Implications of Trump’s Grand Strategy for U.S. Military Engagement in Africa - Tony Manganello

Grand Strategy (Part V): A Machiavellian approach towards Mexico’s strategic dilemmas - Alexis Herrera

Cybersecurity in Practice (November 2016)

‘In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not.’ – Anonymous (not the hacktivist group)

Cybersecurity in Practice (Introduction): Outside the Mainstream - Managing Editor Cheng Lai Ki

Cybersecurity in Practice (Part I): Software Power - Marcelo A.O. Malagutti

Cybersecurity in Practice (Part II): Cybersecurity of Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles - Arthur Laudrain

Cybersecurity in Practice (Part III): PWNED Maritime Systems - Cheng Lai Ki

Cybersecurity in Practice (Part IV): Realities and Importance of effective Cyber Crisis-Management infrastructures - Nicolas Castellon

Cybersecurity in Practive (Part V): Securing the Digital Frontier - Cheng Lai Ki

Resource-Induced Conflicts (September 2016)

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Resource-Induced Conflicts, Introduction to the Series - Series Editor Annabelle Vuille

Resource-Induced Conflicts, Part I: Resources Wars - Jasper Humphreys

Resource-Induced Conflicts, Part II: Petro-violence in the Niger Delta - Siri Aas Rustad and Cyril Obi

Resource-Induced Conflicts, Part III: To Frack or Not To Frack? - Sourojeet Chakraborty

Resource-Induced Conflicts, Part IV: Society, Resources and Conflict in Yemen - Dr. Charles Schmitz

Resource-Induced Conflicts, Part V: Valuable Natural Resources and Transparency - Päivi Lujala

PROXY capabilities: PMCs, militaries, and intelligence on the modern battlefield (April 2016)

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PROXY capabilities, Part I: A renewed strategy of the 21st century - Series Editor Cheng Lai Ki

PROXY capabilities, Part II: The history and future of Russian private military companies - Gregory Wilson

PROXY capabilities, Part III: Proliferation and patronage: UAV diffusion as a new form of proxy - Rian Whitton

PROXY capabilities, Part IV: Spying by Proxy - The Privatisation of Surveillance - Saher Naumaan

PROXY capabilities, Part V: Costs and burden sharing in draft Investigatory Powers bill - The battle between the Home Office and communication service providers - Mustafa Batuhan Albas

PROXY capabilities, Part VI: A helping hand in the struggle against terrorist cyber-activity - Elmer Hernandez

The role of water in human conflict and politics (March 2016)

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Dripping tap in India. South Asia is relatively abundant in water resources, but it is not always distributed efficiently or equitably. (Image by Paula Hanasz, 2014)

Water in human conflict, Part I: Water, a well-spring of conflict? - Paula Hanasz

Water in human conflict, Part II: Dams as centaurs - Fillipo Menga

Water in human conflict, Part III: Transboundary rivers and climate change: Testing times for hydro-diplomacy to attain and maintain cooperation - Prof. Ashok Swain

Water in human conflict Part IV: ISIS and the flood: or the hydro-politics behind the rise (and fall) of Daesh - Series Editor Harris Kuemmerle