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Alastair Crooke, Huffington Post, 30 June 2014 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alastair-crooke/iraq-isis-alqaeda_b_5542575.html?utm_hp_ref=world BEIRUT — These are extraordinary times. Extraordinary events are taking place in Iraq (and in the Muslim World). There is
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The New Caliphate and its intersection with Middle East Geopolitics How to read events in Iraq?  We do now have a few ‘handholds’ of understanding onto
Iraq: The al Qae’da Schism and the Political Re-orienting of Iraq:Â Â From ‘bin Ladenism’ to ‘Zarqawi-ism’ Let us be clear at the outset:Â What we are witnessing
The sheer visibility of turnout, the resolution, and zeal with which Syrians voted in Syria’s Presidential elections have both taken western audiences by surprise, and
Managing the Void What to make of Obama’s foreign policy speech at West Point? At the more prosaic level, the White House has been briefing
Are we heading towards a hot ‘summer of discontent’? It seems so. The geo-strategic political situation certainly has its needle wavering towards escalating tensions, and
It seems set for escalation towards another round of sanctions on Russia: The ‘round table’ talks in Kiev bore no fruit. But rather, as we see
Professor Stephen Walt noted somewhat wryly in a recent article that perhaps one of Bill Clinton’s worst predictions consisted in 1992 remark, in which he said, “in a world
Following five days in Moscow, a few thoughts on Russian perspectives:  Firstly, we are beyond the Crimea. That is over. We too are beyond ‘loose’ federalism for Ukraine
Conflicts Forum’s Weekly Comment 16 – 23 May 2014
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Are we heading towards a hot ‘summer of discontent’? It seems so. The geo-strategic political situation certainly has its needle wavering towards escalating tensions, and
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