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What’s going to happen to us without barbarians? They were, those people, a kind of solution. CP Cafavy, (prominent modern Greek poet, 1863-1933) There is
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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
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
It is a “melancholy perspective indeedâ€, writes Yezid Sayigh of the Carnegie Middle East Centre. “But the time when Assad might have been defeated by a truly inept opposition
In the sense that the outcome to P5+1 negotiations with Iran will mark a key inflection point for the Middle East – one way or
We noted last week that President Obama’s key Middle East foreign policy issues had turned suddenly sour – on the eve of President Obama and
It has been a week in which President Obama’s foreign policy initiatives have turned sour; and to make it worse, they seem all to have
A well-connected colleague (based in Washington) notes: “Regarding Syria, US attention has dropped precipitately, with the result that US intelligence analysts are warning that Assad is making military
Conflicts Forum’s Weekly Comment, 3 Oct 2014
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What’s going to happen to us without barbarians? They were, those people, a kind of solution. CP Cafavy, (prominent modern Greek poet, 1863-1933) There is
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