Archive for 'Alastair Crooke'
Terror and truth
By Alastair Crooke, The Guardian, June 1, 2008
Sir Hugh Orde speaks rarely heard truth when he says that he has never heard of a terrorist campaign that was “policed out”, adding that he could not think of one that had not ended through negotiation.
There has been an unshakeable faith in Europe that western law-enforcement officers […]
Posted: June 3rd, 2008 under ARTICLES, Al Qaeda, Alastair Crooke, Dialogue, Islamists.
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“But what if nobody takes notice?”
By Alastair Crooke, Conflicts Forum, May 11, 2008
“But what if nobody takes notice?” is the question posed by Robert Malley and Hussein Agha in an article in the recent New York Review of Books concerning the putative ‘shelf agreement’ being discussed between President Abbas and Prime Minister Olmert. A ‘shelf agreement’ is an exercise in […]
Posted: May 11th, 2008 under ARTICLES, Alastair Crooke, Fatah, Islamists, Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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The naive armchair warriors are fighting a delusional war
By Alastair Crooke, The Guardian, March 24, 2008
The French philosopher Michel Foucault notes that in all societies discourse is controlled - imperceptibly constrained, perhaps, but constrained nonetheless. We are not free to say exactly what we like. The norms set by institutions, convention and our need to keep within the boundaries of accepted behaviour and […]
Posted: March 24th, 2008 under ARTICLES, Alastair Crooke, Islamists.
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Disarmament vs. Demilitarization
A Conflicts Forum Monograph by Alastair Crooke, and an Interview with Ambassador Chester Crocker, February, 2008
In 2006, the United States Institute of Peace generously provided a grant to Conflicts Forum to conduct a research study on “Disarmament vs. Demilitarization” in the context of the current Lebanese political environment. The goal of the study is to […]
Posted: February 15th, 2008 under Alastair Crooke, Disarmament, Hezbollah, Lebanon, MONOGRAPHS, Mark Perry.
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Language - a tool to transform different into dangerous
Alastair Crooke interviewed by Christian Porth, Daily Star, February 2, 2008
“If thought corrupts language,” the English author George Orwell wrote in his famous 1946 essay “Politics and the English Language,” “language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation, even among people who should and do know better.” Alastair Crooke, […]
Posted: February 9th, 2008 under ARTICLES, Alastair Crooke, CF Interviews, Dialogue, Islamists, Political Islam.
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Refusing talk to facilitate talk – the paradox of Islamist dialogue: An overdue task or an exercise in appeasement?
The Bill and Sally Hambrecht Distinguished Peacemakers Lectures at AUB — Lecture by Alastair Crooke, The Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs, American University of Beirut, January 17, 2008
“So, you spoke to the leaders of Hezbollah?”
“Yes”
“And you also speak with the leaders of Hamas?”
“Yes”
“And they told you that they support democracy?”
“Yes”
“And you […]
Posted: February 4th, 2008 under ARTICLES, Alastair Crooke, Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamists.
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