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Is a Third World War inevitable?
A former history teacher of mine used to say that something is only inevitable after it has happened. History is a hard teacher and its lessons are some of the most difficult to learn. The more humanity progresses the greater the need to learn from the mistakes of the past as the spectre of extinction…
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Would NATO be more effective if it were disbanded?
The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, to use its full title was formed by the victorious western powers in response to the politically uncertain world of post war Europe. Its objective was simple, the preservation of the western democratic way of life in a organisation based on mutual defence. Over the years NATO has grown exponentially…
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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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