Albany Thought Pieces
Here at Albany, we have a dedicated staff who each bring their own unique insights to the work we do. Albany has encouraged them to put their thoughts to paper to produce a regular series of Thought Pieces that will highlight critical issues and solutions in the communications world.
British Strategy: Is it August 1911 all over again?
The Praetorian Problem: Palace Coups from Ancient Rome to Modern Africa
The Future of Communication Powered by Technology
Two Years After the Fall of Kabul, where does Central Asia stand with the Taliban?
Factionalisation Among Terror Groups Can Benefit Lake Chad Basin
Looking Both Ways on the High Wire: Georgia’s view of the Ukraine War
Rebranding our ‘systemic rivals’ in Russia and China: strategy, not semantics
Blind faith?: Communicating Risk in an Uncertain World
Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism: Towards a holistic, evidence-based response
The West and the Rest: Where Did It All Go Wrong?
The Russia–China Alliance versus the West: What about the Rest?
Trauma Support to Journalists – An Holistic Approach to Defending Media Freedom
VISA Liberalisation – The key to stemming Kosovan brain drain?
Ukraine Updates
Albany has watched the events in Ukraine unfold with immense sadness. Today we are thinking, both as a company and as individuals, of our friends, colleagues, and partners affected by the unfolding events.
The future is uncertain, but we continue to commit ourselves to working on the defence of rule of law, freedom of speech and the foundations of an inclusive and prosperous society. To that end, we have begun publishing a series of Ukraine Updates to inform the wider public about the conflict and fact check the Kremlin’s disinformation.
Moldova: The anatomy of a Kremlin subversion Campaign
The Invasion of Ukraine 1 year on
The Holodomor: combatting genocide denial through Stratcom
Winter is Coming. The Kremlin’s disinformation strategy for winter
“Hell hath no fury”: Gender dynamics in the Ukraine conflict
The Definition and Manipulation of the Term “Terrorism”
Putin’s September Speech – Factcheck
The Kremlin’s Developing Disinformation Narratives (2)
The Kremlin’s Developing Disinformation Narratives (1)
Ukraine’s independent media in war time
MH17: Stratcom and Accountability
The Chinese Communist Party’s role in the Ukraine information war
“Go f**k yourself!” Snake Island and Ukraine’s war narrative
Kremlin Disinformation on Food Shortages
The Ukraine War Beyond the West
Music in Narrative Construction
Humor in Ukraine’s Strategic Communications
Imperial Chekism: Putin’s new ideology
Victory Day: The Kremlin and Kyiv’s contrasting messages
The Kremlin’s Manipulation of Remembrance
Climate Local
In the run up to COP26 Albany is publishing a series of daily ‘Climate Local’ case studies. These will describe specific local climate initiatives within the broad categories as defined by the five Earth Shot goals i.e. Protect and Restore Nature, Clean our Air, Revive our Oceans, Build a Waste Free World and Fix our Climate; each of the case studies will highlight the role that communications play in their success.
Please find links below to our climate local reports: