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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has again brought to the fore the inadequacy of the UN, and especially the Security Council, in preventing conflicts. Pope Francis’s call stood out in the reform debate.
The League of Nations could not preserve peace between the two world wars. The war in Ukraine raises the question of whether the UN will share a similar fate.
More than a million people fleeing the war in Ukraine have sought refuge in Germany. But the support provided and arbitrary administrative practices have sparked debate over unequal treatment compared with other migrant groups.
The war in Ukraine has increased the importance of the Middle Corridor, which bypasses Russia in China’s Belt and Road project. This makes Turkey a critical transit country.
Against rising ransomware attacks and data breaches, the Netherlands has announced a new Cybersecurity Strategy. The strategy contains a concrete action plan to secure the country digitally.
Terahertz imaging systems integrated into UAVs promise to detect weapons and explosives from a distance and so distinguish more accurately between the innocent and a threat.
Integrating terahertz imaging into UAVs as a payload could help detect certain concealed weapons and explosives at an earlier stage, within the technology’s limits.
Terahertz waves can image the inside of objects and what lies behind them, with less harm than X-rays. This part explains the basics of the technology and its uses in security.
Since 2016, rhetoric that eases the acquisition of licensed firearms has eroded the principle that the monopoly on violence belongs to the state. Individual armament is turning into a security problem in Turkey.
Most organisations follow a multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud strategy. This diversity makes holistic security management across different services essential.
According to sociologist Zygmunt Bauman, many of the refugees coming to Europe are not hungry, poor people but people who have lost their former standing. This view calls for migration policies to be rethought.
The terahertz band, lying between microwaves and infrared, can, under suitable measurement conditions, read the “spectral fingerprint” of certain explosives. This part explains the physics of the technology and its fields of application.
The diplomatic tension between Turkey and Greece is turning into a humanitarian crisis as migrants are pushed back in the Aegean. The second part of the Wild West series asks why pushbacks happen.
Built on human rights and the rule of law, the European Union is being tested by its own values in the face of migration and war. The first part of the Wild West series.
Since the 1990s we have been living in the “age of the UAV”. Unmanned aerial vehicles reduce the asymmetric advantage of terrorist organisations and give security forces the upper hand in intelligence.
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