Non-State Actors

For unrelated projects I have been working on an assessment of the interaction between the media and terrorism. I don't really have the time to write a very thoughtful post now -- any useful thoughts of mine belong in the two papers I've been working on ( one of these is already available, though it's in Hungarian). I can, however, put together something (to which I can keep adding later on) that might be interesting. Here are some noteworthy cases connected to the topic in focus. These can serve as ammunition for some important debates -- perhaps in class, if you are a colleague. These are the cases I used as examples in my own work. 1. Burhan Ozbilici's photo (AP) of Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş as he is holding up his index finger, gun in the other hand, having just killed Russia's ambassador to Turkey, Andrey Karlov. The victim is seen behind him, lying on the ground. This was named photo of the year in the World Press Photo 2017 contest. Altıntaş is in the ce...

By Péter MARTON It is more than two years since the Panama Papers , a massive dump of 11.5 million documents related to offshore financial transactions with the involvement of Panamanian corporate services provider Mossack Fonseca, have been leaked and published. A large number of public officials, politicians and their various associates and family members have been implicated in the affair. It may be interesting to draw a balance at this point. The number of senior officials who resigned so far in connection with the Panama Papers scandal: 2 They include Iceland's Prime Minister Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson, after protests gave him an additional push, and a Minister of Industry in Spain, José Manuel Soria . (Please enlighten me if I am not aware of additional cases that may count here.) The number of journalists killed investigating the implications of the Panama Papers: 1 That is Daphne Caruana Galizia, Maltese journalist, murdered by a car bomb this week . (P...