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The restrictions placed by the Ecuadorian Embassy on Julian Assange’s internet access are entirely reasonable because of his repeated willingness to distribute stolen material.
Mr Assange has a long track record of stealing and distributing information, peddling conspiracy theories, and casting …
TIME: Monday 3rd October 2016, 17:00-18:00
VENUE: The Henry Jackson Society, Millbank Tower, 21-24 Millbank, SW1P 4QP
SPEAKER: Branko Milanovic, Senior Scholar, Luxembourg Income Study Center; Visiting Presidential Professor, Graduate Center, City University of New York
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What dynamics drive …
On the 16th March, Dr Diane Webber, a British solicitor and Non Resident Associate Fellow at The Henry Jackson Society, delivered a talk titled after her new book ‘Preventive Detention of Terror Suspects: A New Legal Framework’. The event was …
Posted in Defence, Event Summaries, Global, Human Rights, Spotlight, Terrorism & SecurityBlood Oil: Tyrants, Violence, and the Rules That Run the World
TIME: Monday 22nd February 2016, 13:00 – 14.00
VENUE: Committee Room 9, House of Commons, SW1A 0AA
SPEAKER: Professor Leif Wenar, Chair of Philosophy & Law at King’s College London
To attend please RSVP to: rsvp@henryjacksonsociety.org
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TIME: 13:00-14:00, Thursday 21st January 2016
VENUE: Committee Room 9, House of Commons, SW1A 0AA
SPEAKERS: Mona Sukkarieh
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The discovery of important gas reserves in the eastern Mediterranean adds an additional layer of complexity to an already confusing region. It has …
Published in Commentary Magazine
ISIS finally appears to be losing significant areas of territory. Along with Iraqi forces recapturing Ramadi, the group is believed to have been forced to retreat from as much as 40 percent of the ground it held …
Originally published in LA Times
She is popularly known as “the White Widow,” but the truth about the blue-eyed jihadist suspected of orchestrating the deaths of hundreds of people across Africa is as shadowy as the cloaked world of international terrorism …
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Posted in Event Audio, Global, Intel & Cyber Security, Technology, Terrorism & SecuritySPEAKER:
Martin Wolf, Chief Economics Commentator, Financial Times
& Author, “The Shifts and the Shocks”
TIME: 18:30-19:30, Wednesday 9th December 2015
VENUE: Committee Room 3, House of Lords, London SW1A 0PW
To attend please RSVP to: researchassistant7@henryjacksonsociety.org
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There have been many analyses that have sought to explain the …
Originally published in Gatestone Institute
What if the terrorists had been targeting “just Americans,” or “just diplomats” — would that be “understandable terrorism” in John Kerry’s thinking?
“If we should stop drawing cartoons, should we also stop having synagogues? Should they be …
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Posted in Arab Spring, Defence, Democracy & Development, Event Transcript, Extremism, Global, Iraq, Islamism, Israel, Middle East, Religious Fundamentalism, Syria, Terrorism & SecurityTIME: 13:00 – 14:00, Wednesday 11th November 2015
VENUE: Committee Room 3A, House of Lords
SPEAKER: Robert J. Shiller, 2013 Economics Nobel Prize Laureate; Sterling Professor of Economics, Department of Economics and Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University; and Professor …
Originally published in Spectator Blogs
In recent weeks there have been two prominent examples of what some people in Britain term ‘Islamophobia’. The first involved a woman on a London bus shouting to two identifiably Muslim women that they should ‘go …
Originally published in Spectator Blogs
Regular readers may recall the charming group ‘Cage’. This is the organisation which made headlines earlier this year when Mohammed Emwazi (aka ‘Jihadi John’) was outed as one of their associates. The response of ‘Cage’ was …
On 22 October, the Henry Jackson Society was pleased to host ‘The Modern Mercenary – Private Armies and What They Mean for World Order’. Featuring Dr Sean Mcfate, expert on strategy, the future of war and international relations.
Dr Mcfate opened …
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Posted in Event Audio, GlobalDespite Interpol’s commitment to neutrality and human rights, Russia’s Abuse of Interpol shows the extent to which the Kremlin cynically subverts the purpose of the international police cooperation body by using it as a tool to targetpersecute businessmen and businesswomen, …
Posted in Europe, Global, Human Rights, Publication, RSC Report, RSC Spotlight, Russia, SpotlightOriginally published in the Wall Street Journal
While the rise of violent Islamism has transfixed the world, another, graver threat—21st-century autocracy—is gathering strength. In the long run, it is sophisticated autocrats, not bearded zealots, who pose the greater menace to democracy. …