Rueben Ananthan Santhana Dass
Rueben Ananthan Santhana Dass is a Research Analyst with ICPVTR, a constituent unit of RSIS, NTU, Singapore. His research interests include terrorism and counter-terrorism in Southeast Asia; trends and evolutions in suicide terrorism; Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) terrorism; and the use of technology and unconventional weapons by terrorist groups.
On the 9 year anniversary of the Westgate attack, this Perspective takes stock of recent political developments and the evolution of the threat from al-Shabaab within both Somalia and Kenya.
This perspective analyses the recent ECtHR ruling and explains its impact on the policy of European countries to repatriate children that are still in the Northeast Syria camps.
This Perspective will assess five common predictions of the Taliban’s rule in Afghanistan when they took over a year ago and consider whether things turned out as badly as many believed.