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From the Archives: The New Year’s War in Gaza | Thinking Strategically
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Foreign affairs in strategic context. From the Archives: The New Year’s War in Gaza. Posted on November 16, 2012. With it kicking off in Gaza again, I thought I’d post an unpublished article I wrote in late 2009 about what I called the New Year’s War in Gaza. Some of the observations are understandably dated, but I think the piece is still relevant. At eleven o’clock Saturday morning, on December 27. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal. With regard to the Palestinian question,...
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Great Britain, license to kill: The geopolitics of James Bond | Thinking Strategically
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Foreign affairs in strategic context. Great Britain, license to kill: The geopolitics of James Bond. Posted on November 30, 2012. 8216;Skyfall’. Photograph: Francois Duhamel. What role should a post-imperial Britain play in the world? This question has dogged us since at least 1962, when the former U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson made his infamous remark. Arguably, though, the new Bond film has an answer: Our role is to kill bad guys competently and with style. There are two points I’d make in respo...
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Other writings | Thinking Strategically
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Foreign affairs in strategic context. 8216; Cameron must decide how Afghanistan fits into our grand strategy. 8216;, ConservativeHome (28th September, 2010). 8216; L’Entente Frugale: is the Anglo-French defence treaty a good thing? 8216;, Egremont (16th February, 2011). 8216; Libya: Is David Cameron actually in danger of doing too much, not too little? 8216;, Egremont (1st March, 2011). 8216; Blind spots lurk in UK’s National Security Strategy. 8216;, Egremont (20th April, 2011). 8216; Iran might be many...
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Experts | Tajikistan Research Resources
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A site for researching Tajikistan. Includes researchers, academics, consultants, etc…. The people listed below focus(ed) their research at least partly on Tajikistan. The list is in no way comprehensive, as many people do not have an online profile or resume/cv. If you would like to be included, please send me a link to your online profile or email me a cv and I can host it here. Contact information here. Damon F. Lynch. John R. Perry. 2013 Tajikistan Research Bibliography. Blog at WordPress.com.
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