Nuclear Security and Strategic Analyses Dr Marko Beljac

Introducing “The Analyst”, A New and Exciting Online Media Project. Oh, and It Is Good to be Back

By rights I should have been born in Holland, and lived there for a couple of years, but alas I was pretty rapt to see Spain win the World Cup especially given that the nucleus of the team hailed out of Barcelona. Barce is indeed "more than a club."

At any rate, I write this blog post to report on a new and exciting media project in Australia. The Analyst is a new online and print media project, covering a whole raft of topics of contemporary interest, that this country is really, really crying out for. I am to be involved in this project as a writer, so you shall see more meaty articles from me on arms control, global security and intellectual and current affairs being published over there, so to speak. The Analyst website is still in its formative and developmental stages.

In a previous post I had mentioned that I had wanted to write an essay on knowledge and the Iranian nuclear crisis. I have duly written such an article and it is now available at The Analyst. It's long, so beware.

I recommend that you check it out.

Now I also will have a blog at The Analyst on international relations. It is called "Maxim." Watch out Stephen Walt!

That means my other niche blog, The Vile Maxim, is pretty much done and dusted. That's gone.

So, what am I to do with this blog?

I am pretty fond of it, even though it probably has very few readers. One good thing about a blog, especially on an academic topic, is that it really helps you think. Take say the B61-Mod 7 LEP recently discussed in the media. I want to write a post on it. So you end up engaging in more detective work and thinking about the evidence than you normally would when you have a specific blog post in mind. It really is a great learning device, in my opinion. I think it's worth doing even if you have 2 readers, which is probably my market share.

So, given that, I'm keeping this nuclear-global security oriented blog. I will cross-post. So any substantive blog post here I will also post at the Maxim blog with The Analyst.

This silly blog is proving to have nine lives already.