Contemporary Security Policy Research Articles

Turkey and the European Union: The Security Dimension

(2002). Turkey and the European Union: The Security Dimension. Contemporary Security Policy: Vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 61-82.

Technologization of Security: Management of Uncertainty and Risk in the Age of Biometrics

Contemporary security policies are characterized by a dramatic focus on high technology like biometrics as a security enabler. The process of the technologization of security, i.e. the making of technology the centerpiece of security systems and its perception as an absolute security provider, started in the US in the Eighties and has since been expanded to the European Union (EU) and to almost all developed countries. In this process, biometrics is accepted as the ultimate technology to identify people with certainty. This article examines this emphasis on biometrics in France and in the US in the context of the transformations of late modernity and analyses the philosophical and ethical issues that the emphasis on the body as the core element of identification systems raises.

The Iraqi Quagmire: What Is Next?

(2002). The Iraqi Quagmire: What Is Next? Contemporary Security Policy: Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 135-148.

France and the Revolution in Military Affairs

(2002). France and the Revolution in Military Affairs. Contemporary Security Policy: Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 87-112.

Turbulent Neighbourhoods: How to Deploy the EU's Rapid Reaction Force

(2002). Turbulent Neighbourhoods: How to Deploy the EU's Rapid Reaction Force. Contemporary Security Policy: Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 39-60.

Asian security - At the Crossroads: Us Non-proliferation Policy Toward South Asia After the Indian and Pakistani Tests

(2002). Asian security - At the Crossroads: Us Non-proliferation Policy Toward South Asia After the Indian and Pakistani Tests. Contemporary Security Policy: Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 93-128.

European security - NATO's Mission for the New Millennium: A Value-Based Approach to Building Security

(2002). European security - NATO's Mission for the New Millennium: A Value-Based Approach to Building Security. Contemporary Security Policy: Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 1-34.

Singapore's Embrace of Globalization and its Implications for the Republic's Security

(2002). Singapore's Embrace of Globalization and its Implications for the Republic's Security. Contemporary Security Policy: Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 129-148.

Fighting for freetown: British military intervention in Sierra Leone

(2001). Fighting for freetown: British military intervention in Sierra Leone. Contemporary Security Policy: Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 140-168.

The Doctrine gap: The enduring problem of contemporary peace support operations thinking

(2001). The Doctrine gap: The enduring problem of contemporary peace support operations thinking. Contemporary Security Policy: Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 107-139.

Missing the story: The media and the Rwandan genocide

(2001). Missing the story: The media and the Rwandan genocide. Contemporary Security Policy: Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 91-106.

The role of monitoring and verification

(2001). The role of monitoring and verification. Contemporary Security Policy: Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 169-182.

United States Security Policy in the Western Hemisphere: Why Columbia, Why Now, and What is to be Done?

An evaluation of US policy toward Latin America and Columbia and its implications for the military begins with an understanding of the purposes and patterns of intervention over the years. An evaluation of contemporary security policy in the Western Hemisphere also hinges on an understanding of the broadening view of US national security. In developing these themes, this article (1) analyzes the major tenets of US policy toward Latin America, and the criteria for intervention; (2) examines the concepts of security; (3) explains and clarifies 'Why Columbia, why now, and what is to be done?'; (4) outlines some strategic and high operational-level imperatives for US civil-military involvement in Columbia; (5) puts forward seven additional strategic and operational imperatives for playing in the contemporary security area; (6) addresses the strategic adaption of US military power in the Columbian threat situation; and (7) provides some final conclusions and recommendations. Such an exercise, will, hopefully, stimulate North American, Columbian, and Latin American thinking and action regarding a set of complicated problems that - whether one likes it or not, or is prepared to deal with it or not - is likely to be with us for some time beyond the year 2001.

South Asian nuclear weapons and dilemmas of international non-proliferation regimes

(2001). South Asian nuclear weapons and dilemmas of international non-proliferation regimes. Contemporary Security Policy: Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 27-48.

Has battlefield decision become obsolete? The commitment to the achievement of battlefield decision revisited

(2001). Has battlefield decision become obsolete? The commitment to the achievement of battlefield decision revisited. Contemporary Security Policy: Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 96-120.

Why is there no APTO? Why is there no OSCAP?: Asia-Pacific security institutions in comparative perspective

(2001). Why is there no APTO? Why is there no OSCAP?: Asia-Pacific security institutions in comparative perspective. Contemporary Security Policy: Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 69-95.

Responding to ‘new times’: Securing Australia and Britain in a Post-Cold War Era

(2001). Responding to ‘new times’: Securing Australia and Britain in a Post-Cold War Era. Contemporary Security Policy: Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 107-136.

Alice in Wonderland meets Frankenstein: Constructivism, realism and peacebuilding in Bosnia

(2001). Alice in Wonderland meets Frankenstein: Constructivism, realism and peacebuilding in Bosnia. Contemporary Security Policy: Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 1-30.

Cooperative threat reduction: ‘Locking in’ tomorrow's security

(2001). Cooperative threat reduction: ‘Locking in’ tomorrow's security. Contemporary Security Policy: Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 83-106.

Greek security policy after the cold war

(2000). Greek security policy after the cold war. Contemporary Security Policy: Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 95-115.