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11/10/2013

Conflicts Forum’s Weekly Comment 27 September – 4 October 2013

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In a recent article, Graham Fuller, a former vice-chair of the US National Intelligence Council speculated that “it is possible that President Obama – without articulating it, perhaps

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04/10/2013

Conflicts Forum’s Weekly Comment 20 – 27 September 2013

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Very occasionally, a point of inflection occurs in human affairs – a moment of latent potential, which somehow springs into present ‘being’.  The potential may

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30/09/2013 News

Syria: the strategy has backfired

The Gulf states' plans to undermine Iran and Syria are in tatters. But a new relationship may now emerge

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This article was originally published by The Guardian on Sunday September 29th 2013.  What a curious turn of events: from the very brink of a

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27/09/2013

Conflicts Forum’s Weekly Comment, 13-20 Sept 2013

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On 12 September 2013, Prince Turki of Saudi Arabia addressed the Defence and Security Forum in London.  Prince Turki is known for his cool-headed analysis, and though regarded

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20/09/2013

Conflicts Forum’s Weekly Comment 6 ­- 13 September 2013

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Syria:  Analyst Philippe Grasset surely has it right when he suggests that the Syria situation has been stabilized by the initiative to place Syria¹s chemical stocks under supervision, ­

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13/09/2013

Conflicts Forum’s Weekly Comment 30 Aug ­ – 6 September 2013

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Prospective US intervention in Syria:  The harshness of the dilemma now facing President Obama is becoming clearer (even if its resolution of it remains obscure).

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06/09/2013

Conflicts Forum’s Weekly Comment 23 – 30 August 2013

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“It’s … as if US leaders have learned nothing, and forgotten nothing in the past decade: They want to topple foreign leaders they regard as

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30/08/2013

Conflicts Forum’s Weekly Comment 16 – 23 August 2013

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Perhaps the most significant event this week was the writing of an article. It was penned by the leading Israeli military analyst, Alex Fishman, in the

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23/08/2013

Conflicts Forum’s Weekly Comment 9 – 16 August 2013

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The expected has now occurred:  a massacre of Muslim Brotherhood supporters by General Sisi of such fierceness that he well may have imagined the cowed, and psychologically-seared,

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