Security in Context

Promoting critical research and policy analysis on peace and conflict.

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📢 Now Available
The latest issue of Insecurity Monitor, “Palestine and the Global Order,” is out now — free to download as an e-book or order in print via @4Tadween.

As Israel’s genocide in Gaza enters its third year, the issue examines the Palestinian struggle, global solidarity, and shifting geopolitical realities.

📖 Get your copy here:
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ℹ️ For more on the issue:
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New Research Paper - Electromobility and Technological Rivalry: Mexico in the China-United States Confrontation

This paper was prepared for the online conference, The China Effect: Rethinking Development in Latin America and the Caribbean.

https://t.co/rtuJPtwiUE

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New Research Paper - Is the US Pushing Latin America into the Arms of China? The Economic Dimension

This paper was prepared for the online conference, The China Effect: Rethinking Development in Latin America and the Caribbean.

https://t.co/PzLX4wV6BF

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New Research Paper - Does China’s Contemporary Development Have Implications on Development Economics? First Conceptual Reflections

This paper was prepared for the online conference, The China Effect: Rethinking Development in Latin America and the Caribbean.

https://t.co/vrRa6wtVth

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"I'm sorry, gentlemen, but I have to answer to hundreds of thousands who are anxious for the success of Zionism: I do not have hundreds of thousands of Arabs among my constituents." Harry S. Truman (1945)

"Rethinking US Middle East Policy: Past, Present, and Prospects," with @MouinRabbani and @SecurityContext.

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New Research Paper - Economic Relations Between Brazil and China: Challenges for Development in a Scenario of Transformations in the Global Order by Celio Hiratuka

This paper was prepared for the online conference, The China Effect: Rethinking Development in Latin America and the Caribbean.

https://t.co/E6mo4lZJRV

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New Video - Aaron Berman: Abraham Rihbany, Amin Rihany, and America's Arab Nationalists

This video is the second in a series that aims to educate the public about the history, past and present, of the US relationship with the Middle East from different perspectives. This lecture series is part of a broader research initiative "Rethinking US Middle East Policy: Past, Present, and Prospects", a collaboration between Security in Context and the Arab Studies Institute.

https://t.co/Pe2ZTJNZVT

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New Video - Mouin Rabbani: US, Israel, and the Palestinians

This video is the first in a series that aims to educate the public about the history, past and present, of the US relationship with the Middle East from different perspectives. This lecture series is part of a broader research initiative "Rethinking US Middle East Policy: Past, Present, and Prospects", a collaboration between Security in Context and the Arab Studies Institute.

https://t.co/GhXvvOZzwn

[Omar S. Dahi @omardahi]

We are happy to launch our public pedagogy series on the past & present of US-Middle East relations, a collaboration between @SecurityContext & Arab Studies Institute /@jadaliyya. Our first lecture is by @MouinRabbani: "US, Israel and the Palestinians" https://t.co/VwMhBKdJmO

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New Article - "Somaliland's Secession and Sovereignty: How Israel's Recognition of Somaliland Acts as Subjugation" by Prisca Afantchao

Read the full paper here - https://t.co/vLgf2JHrgo

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New Policy Paper - "A Violent Convergence: How Silicon Valley and Private Finance Are Reshaping War" by Shana Marshall (@marshall_shana)

Read the full paper here - https://t.co/M8VEskP64B

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Security in Context (@SecurityContext) is pleased to host Prof. Fernando Brancoli for a residency at The Five College Consortium with events at Hampshire College (@hampshirecolg) and Mount Holyoke College (@mtholyoke). Special thanks to the UMass Institute for Social Science Research (@UMassISSR).
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"With each passing day, the US-Israeli war on Iran looks increasingly like a moral and security quagmire-in-the-making."

Read Negar Razavi's SiC Policy Brief "Hedging for War: How Washington’s Foreign Policy Experts Blame Trump for a War with Iran They Helped Legitimate"

https://t.co/eubiAOwcGD

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We continued our coverage of Latin American development, militarism, and social movements with a major publication on Latin America, our Security in Context Report, “Beyond Militarism: Reimagining Security and Resistance in Contemporary Latin America,” published on May 28, 2025.

Read more in SiC’s 2025 Year in Review - https://t.co/IKADotqT4t

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On July 17-18, 2025, SiC’s Global South and World Order project hosted a “Red Sea Workshop” in Mombasa, Kenya, bringing together 12 leading researchers whose work critiques prevailing narratives and explores alternative paradigms in our understanding of the Red Sea region.

Read more in SiC’s 2025 Year in Review - https://t.co/IKADotqT4t

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On April 24, 2025, Security in Context hosted Multilateralism from the Margins, a roundtable about multilateralism in the Global South held at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South at Northwestern University in Qatar (#IAS_NUQ) in Doha.

Read more in SiC’s 2025 Year in Review - https://t.co/IKADotqT4t

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On September 1, 2025, SiC Senior Researcher Leila Hilal published a research paper on the negotiations between Syria’s interim authorities and Israel as mediated by the United States following December 2024’s regime collapse.

Read more in SiC’s 2025 Year in Review - https://t.co/IKADotqT4t

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On April 7, 2025, SiC Senior Researcher Mandy Turner published a 40,000-word, deeply researched systemic analysis of influential Western think tanks and their knowledge production during the genocide in Gaza, titled “Hegemony factories or independent thinkers? Western think tanks on Israel and Palestine after October 7.”

Read more in SiC’s 2025 Year in Review - https://t.co/IKADotqT4t

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In 2025, Security in Context (SiC) continued its wide coverage of global issues, with cutting-edge knowledge production and evidence-based publications alongside workshops and interviews with scholars and activists.

Read SiC’s 2025 Year in Review here - https://t.co/2zfK0q0Cmm

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🚨 CALL FOR PAPERS | Special Issue on “Global South and Multipolar Imperialism: Alliances, Fractures, and Possibilities”

DEADLINE - April 1, 2026

Details below 👇

https://t.co/scdxNlXLaC

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🚨 New Article | Venezuela at a Crossroads: The Perplexing Desire for US Intervention and the Future of our Political Imagination

Read it here 👇
https://t.co/KTJoncCEoC