Volume 34 (2016), Edition 4

Social media have the power to unite people in common causes. At the same time, social media can highlight divides among people and influence conflict. This paper explores the latest techniques being used to mine social media data to discover trends...

The discourse surrounding digital technologies is rapidly changing, namely from an entity with the potential to generate positive political change to one that can be abused by extremists. In light of this, a new “dispositif” of risk has emerged...

This article investigates the influence of Social Media platforms on policing protests and riots. Mainly, it is argued that through a stronger inclusion of Social Media data into policing, Social Media itself becomes a domain of internal security,...

This paper argues that authoritarian states have flouted the utopian hope of networked platforms favoring democracy and free speech. Over the last decade, platforms have instead helped authoritarian states to surveil, track and control their...

The internet - or more generally cyberspace - is an essential part of modern societies, civil life, and directly as well as indirectly a crucial economic factor. The underlying technologies are an increasing target for economic or intelligence...

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles have undergone profound changes in the past seven decades. They have become common on all battlefields and are used by many sides including terrorist and non-state organizations. This paper theorizes that the next step in...

This article looks at the phenomenon of Foreign Terrorist Fighters from Europe and sheds light on the position of institutional Islam towards this security threat. The article first looks at how the new trends characterizing the profile and...