National Security ’09: On your marks, get set…

by | Apr 27, 2009


More trees than the Amazon rainforest are going to have to be chopped down in the next few months to keep up with the rash of reports set to be launched this summer on national security and related subjects. Below is an initial list:*

  1. IPPR’s final report on national security (interim paper here) (June 30th);
  2. UK Government’s National Security Strategy (Mark II) (Mark 1 here);
  3. Conservative Party green paper on national security (first effort here);
  4. UK Government organised crime strategy (which I think will be focusing on nexus between organised crime and terrorism). 2004 strategy here;
  5. Defence Industrial Strategy (DIS) Mark 2** (first attempt here);
  6. DFID White Paper on International Development (here’s one submission I found);
  7. Community Resilience Strategy (Cabinet Office – linked to NSS II).

*If you know of any other documents please let the team at GD know.

** Will update when news becomes public.

Author

  • Charlie Edwards is Director of National Security and Resilience Studies at the Royal United Services Institute. Prior to RUSI he was a Research Leader at the RAND Corporation focusing on Defence and Security where he conducted research and analysis on a broad range of subject areas including: the evaluation and implementation of counter-violent extremism programmes in Europe and Africa, UK cyber strategy, European emergency management, and the role of the internet in the process of radicalisation. He has undertaken fieldwork in Iraq, Somalia, and the wider Horn of Africa region.

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