The author discusses the international community’s responsibility to protect those experiencing genocide, specifically in
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Borja Lasheras is a Spanish lawyer and international analyst. He has a Master of Law from Harvard University and has studied International Law in Leiden University (The Netherlands) and in Deusto University (Spain). He currently works for the Observatory of Spanish Foreign Policy (OPEX), in Security and Defence matters.
Could Darfur add up to the list of shameful names for the international communitiy?
The author discusses the international community’s responsibility to protect those experiencing genocide, specifically in
The crude realities of Kosovo´s teetering social cohesion following 8 years of UN rule
Kosovo’s independence is inevitable, given the failure of multiethnicism in the Balkans, the overwhelming support it has amongst Kosovars, and the fact that Serbia’s grip upon the region is currently only nominal, argues the author. He suggests that the EU should play a more important role in mediating the conflict and attempt to implement the main parts of the Ahtisaari Plan. At the same time, caution must be exercised, so as to avoid a crisis with Serbia or Russia, as well as a repeat of the gruesome violence that gripped the region during the 1990s.
Questions of social cohesion and the battle of ideas against extremism (part II)
A study of the threat of Islamic terrorism in Britain, analyzing the historical and social components of a generation-long problem: there is a need for a comprehensive approach to homegrown terrorism in a democratic society, but there is no single solution.
Britain’s counter-terrorism policy and its Muslim citizens integration (Part I)
British Muslims have been cast into the spotlight with the recent terrorist attacks in Britain. It is clear that engaging with them will play an important role in the preventing Islamic extremists.