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43 articles · Writing for PUGAT 2021–2026 · 5 series
Does talking about justice change anything in an environment where lawlessness has taken root? For the author, the greatest danger is the belief, growing stronger every day, that speaking will come to nothing.
Security is no longer only a matter for states but also for individuals’ quality of life and status anxiety. The author argues that the “order of chaos” produced by the lust for power is itself a security problem.
Some elements of terrorism never change, but technology, the climate crisis and proxy wars keep it evolving. The last article in the “Anatomy of Terrorism” series offers predictions for the future.
Terrorism does not always come from independent organisations. States too have backed terrorist groups for strategic gain or carried out terrorist acts themselves. State-sponsored terrorism from Afghanistan to Lockerbie.
From nationalist independence movements to ideological organisations, from religious extremism to environmental radicals: how have the aims, methods and sources of finance of terrorism changed over a century?
Geography, ideology and method may change, but some elements of terrorism never do: violence, the targeting of civilians and the aim of achieving political results through fear.
After Hamas’s attack in October 2023 and Israel’s response in Gaza, each side declared the other terrorist. What is terror, and who is a terrorist? There is still no common international definition.
The Republic is a hundred years old. But its record on democracy, press freedom, judicial independence and minority rights adds a bittersweet loneliness to the joy of the celebration.
How meaningful is it to talk about terror and terrorists the morning after a night of massacre in Gaza? On the point where words and humanity end in the face of images of children’s bodies.
The elections in the Republic’s centenary will go down in history as the result of a period in which law and democracy were sacrificed to political interests. In the author’s view, hopes have been battered by both the government and the opposition.
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