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11/07/2013

Conflicts Forum Weekly Comment 28 June – 5 July 2013

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Egypt: Why did the army do it?  It is a complex story (see here), but essentially the Brotherhood ideologues had come to believe that the AKP’s success

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29/06/2013

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21 – 28 June 201  Egypt is bracing for rival mass demonstrations, amid tight army security, in what is now a deeply fractured nation – with

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22/06/2013

Conflicts Forum Weekly Comment

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14-21 June 201 Syria: The G8 meeting in Northern Ireland in the end, changed nothing. It concluded with little more than a pious hope to hold a Geneva II meeting by early

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14/06/2013

Conflicts Forum Weekly Comment

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7 – 14 June 2013 The polls on the eve of the Iranian Presidential elections (14 June) mark some important shifts in the positioning of the leading

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11/06/2013

Conflicts Forum Weekly Comment

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31 May – 7 June 2013   The fall of Qusayr marks a strategic point both for Syria – and for the geo-strategic make-up of

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31/05/2013

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24 – 31 May Syria – This week has witnessed a powerful consolidation of critical support around the Syrian state – firstly, as a direct counter

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17/05/2013

Conflicts Forum’s Weekly Comment

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10 – 17 May 2013 This week has seen the further political consolidation of the strategic military shift begun by the Israeli attacks on Syria.  Netayahu –

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12/05/2013

Conflicts Forum Weekly Comment

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3 – 10 May 2013 The main focus this week has been to gauge the ‘rationale’ behind the Israeli strikes on Syria last Friday and Sunday –

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03/05/2013

Conflicts Forum Weekly Comment

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26 April – 3 May 2013 Confusion, contradiction and gridlock within western policy-making and thinking, whether on Syria, Iran or the Arab ‘arising’ has been very

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