Security & Strategic Review - June 2016 (ISSN 1741-4202)

With the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games drawing closer (they will be held between 5-21 August) journalists all over the world are looking for things to say about them. Hyper media coverage can at worst trigger something of a feeding frenzy, where all security risks can be amplified and exaggerated. But like any event of this kind, the risks are real: here we seek to outline some of the main ones and put them in context.