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Military and police security patrol Gare du Nord station in Paris, France.

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Analysis & Opinions - Agence Global

When is the moment to ask for more effective anti-terrorism policies?

| July 16, 2016

"What happens when, after another dozen major attacks, the chain of their barbarism outpaces the chain of our human solidarity? When is the permissible moment to start asking if we can muster as much wisdom and realism to fight terror as we do to harness emotions of solidarity? The recent increasing pace and widening geographic scope of terror suggest we are dealing with a qualitatively new kinds of terrorists — but the policy responses of governments and the emotional responses of entire societies suggest we have no idea how to respond to quell this monster."

Handover ceremony for the Essid's government in Tunisia

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Analysis & Opinions - Agence Global

Tunisia, Bahrain, Egypt Offer Real Choices

| February 4, 2015

"The contrast this week between political decisions by the governments in Tunisia, Bahrain and Egypt capture vividly the two available pathways for Arab national development. For the first time ever in modern Arab history, Arab citizens across the region can witness how life, politics, and citizenship operate in two alternative systems based, respectively, on the rule of law and democratic pluralism, in the case of Tunisia, and on top-heavy, family-based, security-managed governance systems in most other Arab states, with Bahrain and Egypt offering the most recent unfortunate examples."

Egyptian riot police stand guard behind barbed wire during clashes near the Egyptian Interior Ministry in Cairo, Feb. 5, 2012, on the fourth day of clashes between security forces and rock-throwing youth after a deadly soccer riot.

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Analysis & Opinions - The Boston Globe

Not Just a Game

| February 6, 2012

"Egypt's future is not just about democracy, but about the basics of public security. If Egypt can't satisfy both simultaneously, then the Spring is lost. The battles on the street now are not about a unified vision of Egypt's future, but about competing visions of Egypt's fate."

Norton Cybercrime Index

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Paper - Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, Belfer Center

Taking a Byte Out of Cybercrime

| October 2011

"Cybersecurity is a means to enable social stability and promote digital democracy; a method by which to govern the Internet; and a process by which to secure critical infrastructure from cybercrime, cyberespionage, cyberterrorism and cyberwar. As nations and corporations recognize their dependence on ICT, policymakers must find the proper balance in protecting their investments without strangling future growth."

This image broadcast on Libyan state television, Feb. 22, 2011, shows Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi as he addresses the nation in Tripoli, Libya. Libya's Gadhafi vowed to fight on against protesters demanding his ouster and die as martyr.

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Analysis & Opinions - The Boston Globe

Too Soon to Indict Khadafy

| June 6, 2011

"The American goal in Syria and Yemen — just like Libya — must be to convince authoritarian leaders that, absent significant internal reforms, they must go. The indictments against Khadafy not only threaten to undermine a potential exit strategy for him, but may also give other Arab leaders more incentive to fight till the end."

Analysis & Opinions - Agence Global

ICC Challenge: Balancing Power and Principle

| June 9, 2010

The first Review Conference of the International Criminal Court (ICC) now taking place in Kampala, Uganda, writes Rami Khouri. Obama, Ahmadinejad and other such elected leaders come and go routinely, he says, their policies reflecting the constellations of domestic and international power in their narrow political universes.