Category: The War On Terror
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How do we defeat Islamic State?
Baghdad, Aden, Brussels, Jakarta, Istanbul, Paris. It is a sad litany of names all united in tragedy: they are all cities touched by Terrorism; they have all been successfully targeted by Islamic State. It is an organisation which has killed almost 50,000 individuals throughout the Middle East and beyond. Its European, African and Asian activities…
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The Middle East and Africa: The Nightmare Scenario
What if the merging of Boko Haram and Islamic State is just the start of something bigger?
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Can we ever truly win the war on terror?
The war on terror has been the predominant force in world foreign policy for the last 15 years since the bombings of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998. The embers of this war were stoked further by the bombing of the USS Cole in 2000 but it really gained momentum after the…
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Would the US pursue a better strategy by pulling out of the Middle East entirely?
The end of World War Two was a watershed moment in US political history, it marked the end of its international isolation which had been the pervading element in US politics since the end of the 1920’s and only was abated when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbour. The politics of the Monroe doctrine were rekindled…
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Is IS actually a fascist organisation?
One cannot look at the current affairs of the world without encountering one very prominent and disturbing organisation: The Islamic State (IS). Its spectre looms large over the Middle East claiming both territory and lives, but if you look further into the organization itself, past the propaganda you start to see the fundamentals of the…
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The Failure of “Flat Pack” Democracy
Afghanistan, Iraq, Egypt, Libya, Syria, Tunisia and numerous other Arab speaking and Asian countries. The names read like a who’s who of the Foreign Offices “must avoid” list. What do they have in common? Simple, they have experimented in democracy, with varying successes and failures. Let’s take Afghanistan first, the American led invasion of 2001…
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