For at least the last seven years, Lebanon has been in a deep economic and political crisis that has sparked several mass demonstrations in the heart of Beirut. Every time demonstrations were joined by up to more than a hundred thousand demonstrators with vast participation from the Lebanese...

Thirty years ago, a new world order was announced. After the Cold War the world would be a peaceful place and conflicts would be solved multilaterally. In the West it was expected that the only superpower and "leader of the free world", the US, would indeed lead the fulfilment of the new world...

Since the turn of the millennium "Community Policing" has become a significant and widespread element of everyday policing in poor rural and urban areas of Mozambique. This development is not unique to Mozambique, but reflected globally. Community policing (CP) has since the 1990s enjoyed...

Following the July 2005 London terrorist attacks the focus of anti-terrorism efforts has moved towards radicalisation within European societies and away from the conflicts in the Middle East and South Asia. This report argues that this shift in focus is based on a misconstrual of al-Qaida as it...

Based on fieldwork in Lebanon a new report from DIIS focuses on how the Palestine refugees living in camps since 1948 perceives the new situation and which consequences the crisis has for their living conditions: How are the Palestinians affected by the influx of about 1.5 million Syrian...

In the latest policy report in DIIS's Defence and Security Studies series, Lars Erslev Andersen and Yang Jiang discuss the potential of China's approach to stabilising security conditions in Pakistan and Afghanistan through development. The report explores China's westward policy by analysing...

When a US drone was shot down by Iran, Trump called off a military response just ten minutes before it was due to start, while the reaction to the attacks on Saudi Arabian oil installations on September 14, which the US accused Iran of being behind, has been moderate. There were no real threats...