Tuesday, May 15, 2018

DONALD TRUMP AND THE CANCELLATION OF THE IRAN NUCLEAR AGREEMENT OR THE ART OF SELF-DEFENESTRATION.

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"President Trump on Tuesday said he is pulling the United States out of the international nuclear deal with Iran, announcing that econo...
Wednesday, January 31, 2018

JOSHUA LANDIS ON WASHINGTON'S SYRIAN POLICY: A COMMENT

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"The State Department has turned the page on Turkey for it no longer views Ankara as a reliable US partner. Many argue that Washington ...
Friday, January 05, 2018

"ONE BELT, ONE ROAD": ILLUSION OR REALITY?

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" There is a shorthand among foreign policy types that designates the 20th as the Atlantic century. The 21st, the received wisdom conti...
Thursday, January 04, 2018

PREDICTIONS FOR ANNO DOMINI 2018

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"The Financial Times’s team of forecasters had a solid 2017. But not a perfect one. We — OK, I specifically — was wrong to think the US...
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Thursday, December 28, 2017

ANNE-MARIE SLAUGHTER: EYELESS IN FOGGY BOTTOM

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"The foreign policy gossip in Washington largely agrees on two points. First, US secretary of state Rex Tillerson will hit the one-...
Friday, December 15, 2017

SOME OF THE ORIGINS OF THE GREAT WAR: A REVIEW OF HALL GARDNER'S LATEST BOOK

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The following book review has recently been published on the online portion of the British periodical, the Journal of Intelligence History ....
Monday, November 27, 2017

THE DOWNFALL OF DAVID CAMERON: A CONSIDERED VIEW NINETEEN MONTHS LATER

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" David Cameron listed many of the achievements of his six years in office as he stood in Downing Street on the day after June’s histor...
Wednesday, October 25, 2017

THE COMING BREXIT DEBACLE: A COMMENT.

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"It is highly likely that the Brexit negotiations will fail, imposing an abrupt shock on the UK economy and ruining relations with its ...
Friday, October 06, 2017

'HOMAGE TO CATALONIA' REDIVIVUS?

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"This was in late December 1936, less than seven months ago as I write, and yet it is a period that has already receded into enormous d...
Thursday, September 28, 2017

MERKEL'S DEBACLE: A COMMENT

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"Angela Merkel has won her fourth term as German chancellor but saw a sharp fall in support for her conservative Christian Democrat-led...
Wednesday, September 27, 2017

WHAT TO DO ABOUT 'THE LAST DICTATORSHIP IN EUROPE'?

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" Mr. Lukashenka has created a repressive dictatorship on the doorstep of the European Union (EU) and NATO. Unlike any other leader in ...
Monday, September 11, 2017

IS DAME JUDI DENCH TALKING NONSENSE OR IS BREXIT THE RETURN TO 'SPLENDID ISOLATION' ?

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"The Dench publicity train arrived at BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, and inevitably one of the questions was about Brexit. Dame Judi is...
Friday, September 08, 2017

BRITAIN AS A WORLD POWER: DOES IT STILL HAVE WHAT IT TAKES?

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"The British Army has been in a state of transition since SDSR 2010, on top of having to contend with continuing operations in Iraq (un...
Wednesday, September 06, 2017

JACOB REES-MOGG: A MAN FOR OUR TIMES?

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"Let me tell you a joke, people. Jacob Rees-Mogg. He is one hilarious dude! He has named his sixth child Sixtus. He took his nanny canv...
Thursday, August 24, 2017

OUR PRESENT PENCHANT FOR TOPPLING OF STATUES AND WHY ROBERT E. LEE WAS A GREAT IF FLAWED MAN

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"Sad to see the history and culture of our great country being ripped apart with the removal of our beautiful statues and monuments. Yo...