ISN Weekly Theme: Challenging Education
This week the ISN takes a closer look at education, society’s great equalizer. In today’s knowledge economies, education is receiving increasing attention, but are educational policies meeting the...
View ArticleSoap? No, Thanks.
Education in developing countries is often a subject of controversy. But it can also be an example of absurdity. Let’s take the example of technological development in Namibia. Namibia, with 2 million...
View ArticleEurope’s Pariah People
With over 10 million members, the Roma (also called Romani) constitute today’s largest EU minority group. Scattered across a dozen countries, with their largest concentrated populations in Central and...
View ArticleHow Are the World’s Children Doing?
A UNICEF report titled “The Children Left Behind”, to be released today, examines the level of inequality in the education, well-being and health of children in the world’s richest countries. The...
View ArticleE-Learning: Ways Forward
Almost anyone involved in large-scale education and training activities has accepted e-Learning as an established method and technology. What started with early experiments by financially powerful...
View ArticleA Reading List on: Economics and Security
The intersection between economics and security is large and growing. Fighting wars and fulfilling security objectives has always had economic implications — in far more than just blood and treasure —...
View ArticleEmerging Markets’ Higher-Education Challenge
LONDON – As many high-income economies continue to flounder, many regard Brazil, China, India, Russia, and smaller emerging-market countries as the best hope for short-term global recovery. Cautious...
View ArticleThe Experts Come to Zurich
With many experts heading to Zürich for the Center for Security Studies' MAS in Security Policy and Crisis Management program, we took the chance to ask them about the key topics in security today.
View ArticleSecurity, Climate and Money
The MAS ETH SPCM is offered in cooperation with leading academic partner institutions (Photo: ETH Zurich) Week 2 of the Center for Security Studies’ Master of Advanced Studies in Security Policy and...
View ArticleOut of the Classroom and Onto the Web
The Internet and Web 2.0 have enabled students to gain greater and quicker access to ‘International Relations’ (IR) education. Books, courses and information on universities and scholarships are easily...
View ArticleGulf States Under Pressure
Since independence, relations between citizens and their states in the Gulf have been shaped in part by the oil and gas wealth that these countries enjoy. Control over oil and gas revenues allows the...
View ArticleWargaming in the Classroom: An Odyssey
This article was originally published by War On The Rocks on 19 April 2016. Several years ago, as a new professor at the Marine Corps War College, I spent a huge amount of time putting together the...
View ArticleIs Globalisation Really Fuelling Populism?
This article was originally published by the the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) on 11 May 2016. On both sides of the Atlantic, populism on the left and the right is on the rise. Its most...
View ArticleInternational Students at US Universities
This graphic outlines the rising number of international students enrolled at US universities since 1999. To find out what this trend could mean for the transfer of specialized knowledge from Western...
View ArticleMapping the Known Unknowns of Cybersecurity Education
This article was originally published by the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) on 3 February 2020. Many universities are starting to include cybersecurity as a course of study. While there is a high...
View ArticleInternational Students at US Universities
This graphic outlines the rising number of international students enrolled at US universities since 1999. To find out what this trend could mean for the transfer of specialized knowledge from Western...
View ArticleMediation Perspectives: Moving Training from Room to Zoom
Image courtesy of Team Tumult Mediation Perspectives is a periodic blog entry that’s provided by the CSS’ Mediation Support Team and occasional guest authors. In the context of COVID-19-related...
View ArticleThe Failure of Academic Progress in Cybersecurity
Image courtesy of andrew_t8/Pixabay. This article was originally published by the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) on 20 July 2020. Academic progress in cybersecurity studies from a social sciences...
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