A severed cable almost brought down the British Empire - CISSAR

Last year, cables linking underwater sensors capable of detecting submarines off the coast of northern Norway were cut. Now, an 800-mile long undersea fiber-optic line between Norway and the Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic Ocean has...

What Is Really Happening to Turkish Media? - CISSAR

Endnotes and citations are available in the PDF and Scribd versions. The crackdown on Turkey’s media freedom has become notorious across the globe. Yet the exact mechanisms behind this problem, and the political purposes they serve, are not always...

The horror story of urban water wars - CISSAR

The date, 12 April 2018 should be reckoned as momentous in modern hydrological history. Labelled as “Day Zero” in South Africa, it went down as the proposed doomsday for Cape Town, when water levels of the major dams supplying water were predicted...