Tag: Politics
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Should the “Special Relationship” end?
The “Special Relationship” between the United States and Great Britain has coloured the complexion of both countries international political philosophy for the last 150 years. Indeed over the century it has been difficult to note an incident in international politics where the United States and Great Britain have not been involved as a partnership. To…
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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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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…