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Last Friday\u2019s terrorist attacks in the City of Light made headlines across the world this week, from the unfolding of the tragedy to the demise of its orchestrator.\u00a0Jihadology<\/em>\u00a0has released a podcast interview\u00a0<\/a>with Timothy Holman on the\u00a0history of French and Belgian jihadi networks and how the recent attacks fit into a larger picture of plots planned in France since 2012. While security legislation across Europe will surely come under fierce scrutiny in coming weeks,\u00a0The Guardian<\/em>\u00a0has published\u00a0an interactive timeline<\/a>\u00a0of developments of Australia\u2019s national security laws and powers since 9\/11. For a different angle on the attacks,\u00a0read this\u00a0The Wall Street Journal<\/em>\u00a0piece by Ryan C. Crocker<\/a>,\u00a0former US Ambassador to both Iraq and Afghanistan, who makes the case for the\u00a0US to welcome Syrian refugees\u2014to not do so would risk helping\u00a0daesh<\/em>\u00a0achieve its end goal of alienating Arab and Islamic communities.<\/p>\n

International online hacktivist group Anonymous has always been shrouded in controversy, but the hackers have received cautious praise for\u00a0their attempts to drive\u00a0daesh\u00a0<\/em>out of cyberspace. Anonymous posted\u00a0a video last Saturday<\/a>\u00a0threatening \u2018the biggest operation ever\u2019 against the terrorist group as retaliation for the Paris attacks. However, Russell Brandom argues\u00a0on\u00a0The Verge<\/em><\/a>\u00a0that their actions might do more harm than good by preventing intelligence agencies and journalists from tracking extremists\u2019 online footprints.<\/p>\n

Moving to the Middle East, Carnegie Endowment’s David Butter has\u00a0written a timely piece<\/a>\u00a0on the motives behind Russia\u2019s involvement in Syria. He argues that\u00a0its intervention less about the need to\u00a0protect its dominance of the European gas market, rather\u00a0it\u2019s more likely that Russia wished to advance\u00a0its \u2018prosaic strategic interests\u2019.<\/p>\n

The Atlantic Council\u2019s Art of Future Warfare project has culminated in a volume\u00a0of short science fiction stories which explore the future of armed and social conflict, available\u00a0to download free here<\/a>. The project was headed up by August Cole (co-author with Peter W. Singer to\u00a0Ghost Fleet: a novel of the next world war<\/a><\/em>)\u00a0and features a number of established writers as well as up-and-coming thinkers on privateers in cyber war, bio-enhanced targeting, drone operations in space, swarm warfare and more.<\/p>\n

Also looking to the future, CSIS released its\u00a0Global Forecast for 2016<\/a>\u00a0(PDF), featuring short essays by CSIS scholars that focus on the issues that matter most to the US and global security in coming years. This year\u2019s edition includes pieces on\u00a0daesh<\/em>, cyber policy, and China\u2019s economic slump.<\/p>\n

Tech wonks,\u00a0Defense One<\/em>\u00a0has an interesting piece<\/a>\u00a0analysing the Obama administration\u2019s Restoring Active Memory (RAM) project, announced in 2014 as part of\u00a0DARPA\u2019s brain improvement initiative<\/a>. As part of the RAM project, the Pentagon will work with the US Veterans Affairs department over the next five years to develop brain implants that will boost memory and heal PTSD.<\/p>\n

And finally, although their suggested initiatives (more milk, less dogs) failed to be adopted by members of the G-20,\u00a0three cats took to the stage<\/a>\u00a0this week at the G-20 Summit, in the most notable display of #multicateralism at a global summit yet.<\/p>\n

Podcasts<\/strong><\/p>\n

Karen Abbott, author of\u00a0Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: four women undercover in the civil war<\/em><\/a>, discusses her new book which looks at the stories of four women who, at great personal risk, turned to espionage during the American Civil War.\u00a0Listen to the podcast here<\/a>\u00a0(51 mins).<\/p>\n

This week on\u00a0Foreign Policy<\/em>\u2019s Global Thinkers series, David Scheffer and Erica Chenoweth discuss the\u00a0pros and cons of confronting oppressive leadership<\/a>\u00a0with weapons and aggression, rather than nonviolence and peaceful protest (37 mins).<\/p>\n

Videos<\/strong><\/p>\n

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivered a speech at the Council on Foreign Relations on Thursday on US national security in the aftermath of the Paris attacks, and US foreign policy. Offering a strategy to defeat\u00a0daesh<\/em>, Clinton argued to arm the Kurds and Iraqi Sunnis and establish a no-fly zone in northern Syria among other recommendations. Watch\u00a0the video of her address on the CFR website<\/a>\u00a0(1 hr), or\u00a0read the transcript here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Should militaries be part of the solution when providing humanitarian assistance in conflict zones and war torn countries? This question was debated by panelists in a recent event held in Canberra by the International Committee of the Red Cross and ANU\u2019s Centre for Military and Security Law. Watch the\u00a0video of the discussion here<\/a>\u00a0(1 hr).<\/p>\n

Events<\/strong><\/p>\n

Canberra:<\/u>\u00a0The Institute for Regional Security will host its end of year networking event on 3 December. To mingle with peers and experts from national security field over some friendly beverages,\u00a0register here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For a stellar event on US\u2013China relations, be sure to\u00a0mark your calendars for 26 November<\/a>. The USSC\u2019s Bates Gill will be at ANU discussing the negative aspects of the relationship, why it\u2019s likely to become more contentious in the future, and what this means for the US future in the Asia\u2013Pacific.<\/p>\n

Sydney:<\/u>\u00a0Julian Burnside will speak at AIIA NSW\u2019s branch on the truth and lies about Australia and boat people, drawing on his expertise as a barrister and a human rights and refugee advocate.\u00a0Register here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Brisbane:<\/u>\u00a0Natalia Szablewska, an international law and human rights expert, is offering her thoughts on human trafficking in post-conflict societies from a transitional justice framework at the AIIA Queensland branch\u00a0next Tuesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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