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John Battersby

Joanna Kidman
Counter-Terrorism

Opinion: Understanding counter-terrorism needs serious scholarship

June 15, 2024

He Whenua Taurikura needs to be staffed by serious security studies scholars genuinely interested in countering future threats, writes Dr John Battersby of Massey University’s Centre for Defence and Security Studies. It’s well overdue. Serious […]

Bondi Junction
Public Security

What can we learn from the Westfield Bondi Junction Mall incident?

May 30, 2024

The Sydney tragedy leaves us with the question of how to react to extremely low probability events with potential catastrophic consequences, writes Dr John Battersby of Massey University’s Centre for Defence and Security Studies. On […]

National Security Journal
Public Security

Call for papers: National Security Journal ‘Security beyond Government’

December 19, 2021

On behalf of the Massey University-published National Security Journal, the New Zealand Security Sector Network calls for papers for an upcoming ‘National Security beyond Government’ special issue. The New Zealand Security Sector Network (NZSSN) is […]

Covid and national security
National Security

A Brief glimpse at COVID through a National Security Lens

December 15, 2021

Dr John Battersby argues that a myopic focus on the pandemic’s impact, as well the growing social and economic fault-lines it is opening up, will generate risks in an environment in which we are less […]

Mazar-i-Sharif
Beyond Pacific

Were recent events in Afghanistan really an ‘intelligence failure’?

September 12, 2021

The Taliban’s rapid retaking of Afghanistan highlighted failures, but it was no intelligence failure, writes Dr John Battersby and Dr Rhys Ball of Massey University’s Centre for Defence and Security Studies. Dr John Battersby is […]

countering terror
Counter-Terrorism

Q&A: History lost on Christchurch Attacks Royal Commission of Inquiry

March 12, 2021

Massey University intelligence and counter terrorism specialist Dr John Battersby answers our questions on the report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Christchurch terrorist attacks. NZSM: The government has accepted all 44 recommendations […]

Professor Rouben Azizian
National Security

Massey University publishes latest National Security Journal

August 13, 2020

In this abridged ‘Comment from the Editors’, Professor Rouben Azizian and Dr John Battersby provide a brief introduction to the just-published second instalment of the National Security Journal. The successful launch of the National Security Journal last […]

Covid-era protest
Beyond Pacific

‘The People’s Spring’: Covid-19, public protest and terrorism

June 25, 2020

Covid-19 has set the scene for vehement public displays of non-confidence in governments around the Western world, writes Dr John Battersby. Are democracies of the West about to face their own ‘people’s spring?’ Over the […]

Gun control
Law Enforcement

New Zealand’s Arms Act Reform: Buy-back is not an end in itself

February 1, 2020

Dr John Battersby of Massey University’s Centre for Defence and Security Studies makes a sober assessment of the efficacy of the gun buy-back scheme, arguing that a starting point should have included identifying gun owners […]

National Security Journal
National Security

Defsec editor speaks at launch of National Security Journal

October 10, 2019

Defsec’s Chief Editor Nicholas Dynon speaks at the official launch of the new Massey University published National Security Journal in October 2019. I’m honoured to be able to say a few words about this fantastic […]

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