One should not shy away from learning about the latest research in the field of International Security. It is your responsibility to know about major discussions of the season, develop a knowledge of the quality sources for the robust security analysis. There is no need to pay extra money for acquiring this knowledge. All you have to do is look for sources, subscribe to the lates news and read the material to be a decent expert in everything and have a conversation with your colleagues.
On the website page you can sign up for a Peace & Security Report which
they will send to you each week by e-mail. I find this source to be one the
best ones for a news digest on security because the articles provide a decent analysis of major events and add a specialist commentary. In each article
they briefly state the important details related to the issue and explain how and
why the problem has occurred. Sometimes they also give a brief prognosis of the
likely developments. The writers are clearly knowledgeable and committed to their
research, and their articles, albeit brief, give a clear and professional
perspective of the topics.
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Just sign up for the latest reports and you will be receiving the one-two pages of report
on a trending topic by email twice a week. The topics range from the contemporary security issues to the problems of the twentieth century. To note, the
most useful information is frequently quite raw, i.e. requires some background knowledge to make use of their analytics. Hence, the analysis
may be absolutely useless to you, but the facts and rumours give you the precious pieces of information you will not find elsewhere.
Their website has a generous range of articles covering all world regions.
Their website is a wonderful source of academic analysis on various issues, such as the conflict resolution or democracy, the peace operations and so on. All of the content is exclusive to this institute. Once they decide on a topic of interest, they bring in the major actors into the discussion and cover it in their articles. Overall, I find that their articles are helpful to policy research and theoretical evaluations. Among the things to look for from USIP is a weekly bulletin with articles and political reports, as well as the webcasts page, showing the available recordings of the recent conferences hosted by an institute.
This website approaches important topics from a business perspective. Apparently, they target international enterpreneurs that work in a changing business climate and invest in developing markets. They tend to analyse the general trends, compared to a more narrowly focused
coverage by Stratfor, for instance. They cover politics, economics, finance and security. You
can sign up for a weekly newsletter to receive a brief outline of the most
topical issues and commentary pieces written in response to readers' questions.
I find this source to be rather business-focused, because the coverage is very
general, not quite suitable for a deep security analysis. Overall, I think of
it as one of the news sources, which gives you an idea of what is going on in
the world.
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This source is very special. All of their contributors are women - the foreign
policy analysts, journalists, researchers and NGO members. Their website is not
very rich in content, but the weekly newsletter is a worthy piece. In each one
you have several dozens of links to the sources, covering the terrorism, wars,
ecology, and other things. The sources include articles, blogs, videos,
photographs, podcasts and more. The quality is good enough for learning to
understand the challenges created by the security problem, i.e. how it affects minorities or some vulnerable groups. Their
information also tells how different communities engage with an issue.
Therefore, you will leanr to understand how the problem looks from a bottom-up
perspective. It is a very engaging source.
Their activities and articles specifically cover the energy security mostly from the EU perspective. The main benefit for those of you interested is the panel events for public attendance, but they also produce a free newsletter. In each you will see a note of the upcoming events and two or three articles on the topic of their speciality. If you do not have an opportunity to attend their talks, you can access some footage from the past event on their Youtube channel. Their research is top-notch and very exclusive, so you will not find some of the information elsewhere.
If you study security in the UK I assume you probably know about this institute and its activities. They are Britain's top source for latest security discussions and the topical issues in international relations and security. Each member of RUSI has a distinguished expertise in particulr field and make up-to-date observations on their area of interest. RUSI frequently organises conferences to present different perspectives on state policy, military research and security threats. Subscribe to their newletter to keep track of major security gatherings in UK and receive the latest commentary on security news as well as get access to some of its reports.
I strongly advise visiting the page and roaming through the content they have. So far this is the best source for top-notch analysis of various security areas all in one place. If you do not know the people and the sources for latest security analysis, this institute will give you the clues on what to look for in the Web. Subscribe to their free Newsletter to receive a Security Watch feed that covers some of the most interesting news in security collected from various sources throughout Europe. I noticed that the Security Watch digest is very strategic and useful to analysts, because it raises awarenness of the major security and military projects that will produce the greatest impact in the long-term. So read their newsletter carefully not to miss out on topics that will be trending in the next years.
This source may be a surprise to you, after all this institute is a part of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. I suggest being open-minded and follow the rule "precious information comes from various sources". So expand your theoretical horizons and sign up for their newsletter and it will not disappoint you. Never mind the occasional grammatical "missteps" in English, their commentary is very hands-on and relevant to international security. They cover radicalisation, terrorism, war in Libya, international organisations and other topics. The huge benefit of this source is the diversity of presentation formats. You will receive emails with mini-essays on some topics and get a free access to the School's academic journals in others, not to mention the policy briefs and various reports.
If you study security in the UK I assume you probably know about this institute and its activities. They are Britain's top source for latest security discussions and the topical issues in international relations and security. Each member of RUSI has a distinguished expertise in particulr field and make up-to-date observations on their area of interest. RUSI frequently organises conferences to present different perspectives on state policy, military research and security threats. Subscribe to their newletter to keep track of major security gatherings in UK and receive the latest commentary on security news as well as get access to some of its reports.
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I strongly advise visiting the page and roaming through the content they have. So far this is the best source for top-notch analysis of various security areas all in one place. If you do not know the people and the sources for latest security analysis, this institute will give you the clues on what to look for in the Web. Subscribe to their free Newsletter to receive a Security Watch feed that covers some of the most interesting news in security collected from various sources throughout Europe. I noticed that the Security Watch digest is very strategic and useful to analysts, because it raises awarenness of the major security and military projects that will produce the greatest impact in the long-term. So read their newsletter carefully not to miss out on topics that will be trending in the next years.
This source may be a surprise to you, after all this institute is a part of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. I suggest being open-minded and follow the rule "precious information comes from various sources". So expand your theoretical horizons and sign up for their newsletter and it will not disappoint you. Never mind the occasional grammatical "missteps" in English, their commentary is very hands-on and relevant to international security. They cover radicalisation, terrorism, war in Libya, international organisations and other topics. The huge benefit of this source is the diversity of presentation formats. You will receive emails with mini-essays on some topics and get a free access to the School's academic journals in others, not to mention the policy briefs and various reports.
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