Conflicts Forum’s Weekly Comment, 20-27 March 2015 Irrespective of whether there will, or will not, be some sort of agreement between the P5+1 and Iran

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Conflicts Forum’s Weekly Comment, 6-13 March 2015 (This comment was published in French by Sputnik News and will shortly be published in Russian) In an article

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Conflicts Forum’s Weekly Comment, 27 Feb – 6 March 2015 We do not know whether there will be an agreement between Iran and the P5+1.

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Conflicts Forum’s Weekly Comment, 13-20 February 2015 The Greek government is challenging the EU ‘system’ in a very fundamental way, as Russia is challenging the

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Conflicts Forum’s Weekly Comment, 20-27 February 2015 President Obama’s Iran policy has four essential (but seldom explicitly acknowledged) pillars. Recent frank statements, however, have served

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(Apologies for late posting on CF’s website – this article was first published by Huffington Post on 2 December 2014) Alastair Crooke, Huffington Post, 2

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Alastair Crooke, Huffington Post, 13 February 2015 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alastair-crooke/isis-jordan-strategy_b_6674252.html BEIRUT — Last September, I wrote that “Nothing that ISIS has done has been whimsical, rather it reflects serious

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Conflicts Forum’s Weekly Comment, 9-16 January 2015 ISIS was ever thus: a saucer of poison placed down in the midst of Syrian society, with another spoonful dropped

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“The death of the Bretton Woods world order … and the beginning of the end for America’s linchpin role in the global economy” (Bloomberg) Conflicts Forum’s

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