Brendon J Cannon
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 229926 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Brendon J Cannon |
| PRENOMES | Brendon J |
| SOBRENOME | Cannon |
| ASSINATURA | CANNON B J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Khalifa University of Science and Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1731-9547 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 29 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 36 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2018 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Mapping undersea cable risk from bathymetry to geopolitics
Navigating Power
This article investigates joint naval exercises (JNEs) between China and seven littoral states of the Gulf as a prism through which to examine shifting alignments in a global order in flux. These questions have become only more salient in light of the US–Israel–Iran war. In a region long shaped by U.S.-led security structures, JNEs with China, described by the U.S. as a ‘pacing challenge’, raise questions about the Gulf states’ evolving strategic…
Undersea cable security in the Indo‐Pacific
Undersea communication cables carry the bulk of global communications, intelligence, and financial transactions daily. They are increasingly threatened, and Australia, Japan, India, and the US have begun coordinating cable security activities in the Indo-Pacific as the Quad. This article investigates the Quad’s role in undersea cable communication security, and analyzes its motivations, strengths, and the challenges it faces thereby illuminating …
Ensuring security of supply
The Quad as catalyst
Rethinking and arresting Eurasian hegemony
Drawing on classical geopolitical theory, chiefly developed by Halford John Mackinder and Nicholas John Spykman, this article examines central Asia's significance for China's pursuit of Eurasian hegemony. Our theory-driven analysis suggests that de facto control of central Asia by China would provide several interlinking strategic advantages: aggregated critical resources, enhanced continental connectivity and, counterintuitively, seaward expansi…
Beyond National Boundaries
For many scholars, Türkiye’s foreign policy since the early 2000s has been seen as shifting from a West–oriented to an East-facing approach, with its engagement in Sub–Saharan Africa reflecting this change. This article offers an alternative perspective, arguing that Türkiye’s geopolitical imagination and national role conception as a ‘centre country’ provide a deeper understanding of its policies in Africa and beyond. By examining Türkiye’s invo…
Central Asia and the Indo-Pacific
Prevailing Indo-Pacific strategies emphasize maritime domains, marginalizing continental Eurasia and overlooking central Asia's pivotal role in contemporary great power rivalry. Using methodologically diverse approaches, this special section addresses that gap by integrating central Asia into Indo-Pacific discourse. Contributors adopt both outside-in and inside-out approaches to reveal how China views central Asia as essential to its ambition for…
Contested informality in regional institutional design
In terms of institutional positioning, the quartet of Indo‐Pacific states – Australia, India, Japan, and the United States – firmly endorse ASEAN. ‘ASEAN centrality’ is clearly highlighted in all Quad statements. Yet, the Quad presents an organizational and substantive challenge to the core institutional model of ASEAN. This competitive dynamic, with respect to style of associational methods (the how) as opposed to organizational purpose (the why…
The United Arab Emirates and the New Development Bank
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) joined the BRICS‐led New Development Bank (NDB) as part of its first expansion in terms of membership. Questions regarding the interests and rationale of the UAE in joining the Bank, on the one hand, and the NDB's logic in granting membership to the UAE, on the other, immediately jump out. This article sheds light on the BRICS' cautious move away from exceptionality via the expanded NDB in the context of its members…
Turkey-Africa Relations and Turkey’s National Role Conception as the Centre Country
The increase in Turkey’s visibility and power in Sub-Saharan Africa has attracted great attention. The rise of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the AK Party, the story goes, engendered an abrupt shift from a cautious to a proactive foreign policy. We posit, however, that the seeds of Turkey’s opening to Africa date back decades and are an extension of its centre country (merkez ülke) national role conception. Turkey only appeared cautious prior to the 20…
Maps, Flags, and Security in the Indo-Pacific
Looking under the hood of joint naval exercises
Joint naval exercises (JNEs), an increasingly prominent sub-set of joint military exercises (JMEs) between states, vary across a range of dimensions. Yet insufficient attention has been given to comprehending their underlying purpose and the perceived advantages that states, along with their representatives, believe they gain from organizing or taking part in such exercises. This article delves into the objectives and perceived advantages of Japa…
Rwanda’s Military Deployments in Sub-Saharan Africa
The Rwanda Defence Force recently staged military operations against insurgents in Mozambique and the Central African Republic. Both actions were performed outside regional or multinational efforts. This makes the contemporary actions of Rwanda outliers in the international relations of Sub-Saharan Africa and heralds shifts in conflict management on the continent. An explanation is found in the application of neoclassical realist theory to the ca…
Power projection of Middle East states in the Horn of Africa
The reported militarization of the Horn of Africa by Middle Eastern states has generated great interest among scholars and analysts alike. Their analyses and articles about the projections of power from the Middle East to the Horn of Africa are exaggerated, however, because they underappreciate the extant and enduring security burdens of the states in question and overestimate their national power capabilities. This is largely due to common mispe…
Rivalry in East Africa
Uganda and Kenya agreed to jointly build the Uganda-Kenya crude oil pipeline (UKCOP) in 2014. The planned pipeline benefited from a history of common cross-border projects as well as a shared interest to monetize their respective oil reserves. Nevertheless, Uganda soon jettisoned the pipeline across Kenya in favour of the East Africa crude oil pipeline (EACOP) through Tanzania. This article identifies the root causes behind the demise of the UKCO…
The cascading dynamics of informal institutions
This special issue aims to offer empirical, qualitative and comparative insights into the waves of informality sweeping the globe and to decipher the nature and consequence of the proliferating dynamics of informal organizations. From a policy perspective, the special issue is motivated to delve into the operationalization of practices and outcomes of informal organizations. In particular, the articles encompassing this special issue focus on thr…
Locating the Quad
Understanding African views of China
There are few questions of greater significance in African international relations than China's actions in and engagement with other states. Chinese infrastructure, businesses, and people have blanketed the continent and revolutionized lifestyles, transportation, and political economies. The advantages and detractions of such developments, in turn, have shaped local attitudes. African attitudes towards China, nevertheless, remain largely the subj…
Unraveling Japan’s aircraft carrier puzzle
Japan's decision to convert two helicopter-carrying ships into fixed-wing aircraft carriers has generated criticism on two fronts. Military analysts question the military sense of carriers in the age of long-range precision missiles, while other domestic critics decry the move as a flagrant breach of Japan's constitutional constraints on possessing senryoku (war potential) and one likely to provoke Japan's neighbors, most notably China. Against t…
Asymmetric alliances and high polarity
The Middle East and the Horn of Africa exist in two distinct regional security complexes (RSCs), groupings of states exhibiting intense security interdependence within a distinct region, but rarely between regions. Recent geopolitical changes and related analyses, however, point to either a subsuming or a joining of the two RSCs, potentially leading to a high degree of uncertainty in two conflict-prone regions. Given the importance of such develo…
What's in it for us? Armed drone strikes and the security of Somalia's Federal Government
Strikes conducted by the US using armed unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) against the terrorist group al-Shabaab have received widespread attention documenting the number of strikes, the reactions of the local Somalis, and the disparity between AFRICOM and local reporting. Using interview data from individuals in Mogadishu, Nairobi and elsewhere in the region, this article provides a counterpoint to previous studies by measuring the Federal Governm…
Re-examining the “Base”
In late 2017, Turkey opened a facility to train the Somali National Army. Routinely described as a military base since, the move has caused consternation within and beyond the region and is held up as proof that a new scramble for Africa is underway. By contextualizing this new military mission within Turkey's wider role in Somalia, this article demonstrates why the term "base" is misleading and how training the SNA is consistent with Turkey's fo…
Shifting Policies in Conflict Arenas
Turkish policy towards the Syrian civil war, as operationalized in relation to the implementation of no-fly zones, safe zones or buffer zones, has been the subject of much debate among scholars. As the number of foreign states acting in Syria has steadily increased since the onset of the crisis, Turkish policies have similarly shifted. In order to make sense of Turkey’s actions and reactions in the first five years of the Syrian civil war, this a…
Making arms in India? Examining New Delhi’s renewed drive for defence-industrial indigenization
When it comes to states arming themselves, it has become axiomatic among scholars of comparative defence industries that go-it-alone production is no longer an option for most. The processes associated with defence-industrial globalization combined with the ever-rising costs of producing leading-edge weapons systems present huge disincentives for autarky in armaments. Against these strong headwinds, however, India has recently launched, as part o…
The cascading dynamics of informal institutions
This special issue aims to offer empirical, qualitative and comparative insights into the waves of informality sweeping the globe and to decipher the nature and consequence of the proliferating dynamics of informal organizations. From a policy perspective, the special issue is motivated to delve into the operationalization of practices and outcomes of informal organizations. In particular, the articles encompassing this special issue focus on thr…
Asymmetric alliances and high polarity
The Middle East and the Horn of Africa exist in two distinct regional security complexes (RSCs), groupings of states exhibiting intense security interdependence within a distinct region, but rarely between regions. Recent geopolitical changes and related analyses, however, point to either a subsuming or a joining of the two RSCs, potentially leading to a high degree of uncertainty in two conflict-prone regions. Given the importance of such develo…
Looking under the hood of joint naval exercises
Joint naval exercises (JNEs), an increasingly prominent sub-set of joint military exercises (JMEs) between states, vary across a range of dimensions. Yet insufficient attention has been given to comprehending their underlying purpose and the perceived advantages that states, along with their representatives, believe they gain from organizing or taking part in such exercises. This article delves into the objectives and perceived advantages of Japa…
Locating the Quad
Explaining Transborder Terrorist Attacks
This article demonstrates that transborder attacks by Boko Haram and Al-Shabaab are mainly for rational reasons. Using the Global Terrorism Database, we demonstrate that both groups perform transborder attacks primarily for reactive and rational reasons based on pressure from counterterrorism offensives that resulted in shrinking opportunity spaces within the home state. Concurrently, with the push of the groups towards the periphery of the home …
Beyond National Boundaries
For many scholars, Türkiye’s foreign policy since the early 2000s has been seen as shifting from a West–oriented to an East-facing approach, with its engagement in Sub–Saharan Africa reflecting this change. This article offers an alternative perspective, arguing that Türkiye’s geopolitical imagination and national role conception as a ‘centre country’ provide a deeper understanding of its policies in Africa and beyond. By examining Türkiye’s invo…
Central Asia and the Indo-Pacific
Prevailing Indo-Pacific strategies emphasize maritime domains, marginalizing continental Eurasia and overlooking central Asia's pivotal role in contemporary great power rivalry. Using methodologically diverse approaches, this special section addresses that gap by integrating central Asia into Indo-Pacific discourse. Contributors adopt both outside-in and inside-out approaches to reveal how China views central Asia as essential to its ambition for…
Why al-Shabaab Attacks Kenya
This article questions the current narrative paradigm and argues that al-Shabaab attacks Kenya for strategic and highly rational reasons, beyond sharing a border and having bases in southern Somalia closer to major population centres than Ethiopia or Uganda. Al-Shabaab targets Kenya more than other frontline states because of the opportunity spaces linked to Kenya’s international status and visibility, its relatively free and independent media th…
Security, structural factors and sovereignty
Kenya’s decision to close the Dadaab refugee camp complex highlights structural flaws in the international refugee regime. While much attention has been paid to Kenya’s reasoning, less has been given to the reactions of organisations and states. Given the state’s primacy in the international system and uncertainty about refugees, Kenya’s decision is perhaps unsurprising. It is contended that the stakeholders were unprepared because of path depend…
The Quad as catalyst
Rethinking and arresting Eurasian hegemony
Drawing on classical geopolitical theory, chiefly developed by Halford John Mackinder and Nicholas John Spykman, this article examines central Asia's significance for China's pursuit of Eurasian hegemony. Our theory-driven analysis suggests that de facto control of central Asia by China would provide several interlinking strategic advantages: aggregated critical resources, enhanced continental connectivity and, counterintuitively, seaward expansi…
Rivalry in East Africa
Uganda and Kenya agreed to jointly build the Uganda-Kenya crude oil pipeline (UKCOP) in 2014. The planned pipeline benefited from a history of common cross-border projects as well as a shared interest to monetize their respective oil reserves. Nevertheless, Uganda soon jettisoned the pipeline across Kenya in favour of the East Africa crude oil pipeline (EACOP) through Tanzania. This article identifies the root causes behind the demise of the UKCO…
Understanding African views of China
There are few questions of greater significance in African international relations than China's actions in and engagement with other states. Chinese infrastructure, businesses, and people have blanketed the continent and revolutionized lifestyles, transportation, and political economies. The advantages and detractions of such developments, in turn, have shaped local attitudes. African attitudes towards China, nevertheless, remain largely the subj…
Unraveling Japan’s aircraft carrier puzzle
Japan's decision to convert two helicopter-carrying ships into fixed-wing aircraft carriers has generated criticism on two fronts. Military analysts question the military sense of carriers in the age of long-range precision missiles, while other domestic critics decry the move as a flagrant breach of Japan's constitutional constraints on possessing senryoku (war potential) and one likely to provoke Japan's neighbors, most notably China. Against t…
Shifting Policies in Conflict Arenas
Turkish policy towards the Syrian civil war, as operationalized in relation to the implementation of no-fly zones, safe zones or buffer zones, has been the subject of much debate among scholars. As the number of foreign states acting in Syria has steadily increased since the onset of the crisis, Turkish policies have similarly shifted. In order to make sense of Turkey’s actions and reactions in the first five years of the Syrian civil war, this a…
Devolution in Kenya Four Years On
Instituted in 2013, devolution in Kenya seeks to bring government closer to the people by devolving political and economic resources to Kenya’s forty-seven county governments. Devolution’s stated aim is to better address the local needs of Kenyans. This article attempts to gauge the extent to which devolution has been implemented at the county/local level by comparing expectations and reality, highlighting successes and locating current challenge…
Explaining Transborder Terrorist Attacks
This article demonstrates that transborder attacks by Boko Haram and Al-Shabaab are mainly for rational reasons. Using the Global Terrorism Database, we demonstrate that both groups perform transborder attacks primarily for reactive and rational reasons based on pressure from counterterrorism offensives that resulted in shrinking opportunity spaces within the home state. Concurrently, with the push of the groups towards the periphery of the home …
Security, structural factors and sovereignty
Kenya’s decision to close the Dadaab refugee camp complex highlights structural flaws in the international refugee regime. While much attention has been paid to Kenya’s reasoning, less has been given to the reactions of organisations and states. Given the state’s primacy in the international system and uncertainty about refugees, Kenya’s decision is perhaps unsurprising. It is contended that the stakeholders were unprepared because of path depend…
Re-examining the “Base”
In late 2017, Turkey opened a facility to train the Somali National Army. Routinely described as a military base since, the move has caused consternation within and beyond the region and is held up as proof that a new scramble for Africa is underway. By contextualizing this new military mission within Turkey's wider role in Somalia, this article demonstrates why the term "base" is misleading and how training the SNA is consistent with Turkey's fo…
Shifting Policies in Conflict Arenas
Turkish policy towards the Syrian civil war, as operationalized in relation to the implementation of no-fly zones, safe zones or buffer zones, has been the subject of much debate among scholars. As the number of foreign states acting in Syria has steadily increased since the onset of the crisis, Turkish policies have similarly shifted. In order to make sense of Turkey’s actions and reactions in the first five years of the Syrian civil war, this a…
Making arms in India? Examining New Delhi’s renewed drive for defence-industrial indigenization
When it comes to states arming themselves, it has become axiomatic among scholars of comparative defence industries that go-it-alone production is no longer an option for most. The processes associated with defence-industrial globalization combined with the ever-rising costs of producing leading-edge weapons systems present huge disincentives for autarky in armaments. Against these strong headwinds, however, India has recently launched, as part o…
Why al-Shabaab Attacks Kenya
This article questions the current narrative paradigm and argues that al-Shabaab attacks Kenya for strategic and highly rational reasons, beyond sharing a border and having bases in southern Somalia closer to major population centres than Ethiopia or Uganda. Al-Shabaab targets Kenya more than other frontline states because of the opportunity spaces linked to Kenya’s international status and visibility, its relatively free and independent media th…
Asymmetric alliances and high polarity
The Middle East and the Horn of Africa exist in two distinct regional security complexes (RSCs), groupings of states exhibiting intense security interdependence within a distinct region, but rarely between regions. Recent geopolitical changes and related analyses, however, point to either a subsuming or a joining of the two RSCs, potentially leading to a high degree of uncertainty in two conflict-prone regions. Given the importance of such develo…
What's in it for us? Armed drone strikes and the security of Somalia's Federal Government
Strikes conducted by the US using armed unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) against the terrorist group al-Shabaab have received widespread attention documenting the number of strikes, the reactions of the local Somalis, and the disparity between AFRICOM and local reporting. Using interview data from individuals in Mogadishu, Nairobi and elsewhere in the region, this article provides a counterpoint to previous studies by measuring the Federal Governm…
Unraveling Japan’s aircraft carrier puzzle
Japan's decision to convert two helicopter-carrying ships into fixed-wing aircraft carriers has generated criticism on two fronts. Military analysts question the military sense of carriers in the age of long-range precision missiles, while other domestic critics decry the move as a flagrant breach of Japan's constitutional constraints on possessing senryoku (war potential) and one likely to provoke Japan's neighbors, most notably China. Against t…
Rivalry in East Africa
Uganda and Kenya agreed to jointly build the Uganda-Kenya crude oil pipeline (UKCOP) in 2014. The planned pipeline benefited from a history of common cross-border projects as well as a shared interest to monetize their respective oil reserves. Nevertheless, Uganda soon jettisoned the pipeline across Kenya in favour of the East Africa crude oil pipeline (EACOP) through Tanzania. This article identifies the root causes behind the demise of the UKCO…
The cascading dynamics of informal institutions
This special issue aims to offer empirical, qualitative and comparative insights into the waves of informality sweeping the globe and to decipher the nature and consequence of the proliferating dynamics of informal organizations. From a policy perspective, the special issue is motivated to delve into the operationalization of practices and outcomes of informal organizations. In particular, the articles encompassing this special issue focus on thr…
Locating the Quad
Understanding African views of China
There are few questions of greater significance in African international relations than China's actions in and engagement with other states. Chinese infrastructure, businesses, and people have blanketed the continent and revolutionized lifestyles, transportation, and political economies. The advantages and detractions of such developments, in turn, have shaped local attitudes. African attitudes towards China, nevertheless, remain largely the subj…
Rwanda’s Military Deployments in Sub-Saharan Africa
The Rwanda Defence Force recently staged military operations against insurgents in Mozambique and the Central African Republic. Both actions were performed outside regional or multinational efforts. This makes the contemporary actions of Rwanda outliers in the international relations of Sub-Saharan Africa and heralds shifts in conflict management on the continent. An explanation is found in the application of neoclassical realist theory to the ca…
Power projection of Middle East states in the Horn of Africa
The reported militarization of the Horn of Africa by Middle Eastern states has generated great interest among scholars and analysts alike. Their analyses and articles about the projections of power from the Middle East to the Horn of Africa are exaggerated, however, because they underappreciate the extant and enduring security burdens of the states in question and overestimate their national power capabilities. This is largely due to common mispe…
Contested informality in regional institutional design
In terms of institutional positioning, the quartet of Indo‐Pacific states – Australia, India, Japan, and the United States – firmly endorse ASEAN. ‘ASEAN centrality’ is clearly highlighted in all Quad statements. Yet, the Quad presents an organizational and substantive challenge to the core institutional model of ASEAN. This competitive dynamic, with respect to style of associational methods (the how) as opposed to organizational purpose (the why…
The United Arab Emirates and the New Development Bank
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) joined the BRICS‐led New Development Bank (NDB) as part of its first expansion in terms of membership. Questions regarding the interests and rationale of the UAE in joining the Bank, on the one hand, and the NDB's logic in granting membership to the UAE, on the other, immediately jump out. This article sheds light on the BRICS' cautious move away from exceptionality via the expanded NDB in the context of its members…
Turkey-Africa Relations and Turkey’s National Role Conception as the Centre Country
The increase in Turkey’s visibility and power in Sub-Saharan Africa has attracted great attention. The rise of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the AK Party, the story goes, engendered an abrupt shift from a cautious to a proactive foreign policy. We posit, however, that the seeds of Turkey’s opening to Africa date back decades and are an extension of its centre country (merkez ülke) national role conception. Turkey only appeared cautious prior to the 20…
Maps, Flags, and Security in the Indo-Pacific
Looking under the hood of joint naval exercises
Joint naval exercises (JNEs), an increasingly prominent sub-set of joint military exercises (JMEs) between states, vary across a range of dimensions. Yet insufficient attention has been given to comprehending their underlying purpose and the perceived advantages that states, along with their representatives, believe they gain from organizing or taking part in such exercises. This article delves into the objectives and perceived advantages of Japa…
Undersea cable security in the Indo‐Pacific
Undersea communication cables carry the bulk of global communications, intelligence, and financial transactions daily. They are increasingly threatened, and Australia, Japan, India, and the US have begun coordinating cable security activities in the Indo-Pacific as the Quad. This article investigates the Quad’s role in undersea cable communication security, and analyzes its motivations, strengths, and the challenges it faces thereby illuminating …
Ensuring security of supply
The Quad as catalyst
Rethinking and arresting Eurasian hegemony
Drawing on classical geopolitical theory, chiefly developed by Halford John Mackinder and Nicholas John Spykman, this article examines central Asia's significance for China's pursuit of Eurasian hegemony. Our theory-driven analysis suggests that de facto control of central Asia by China would provide several interlinking strategic advantages: aggregated critical resources, enhanced continental connectivity and, counterintuitively, seaward expansi…
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