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Published in: openSecurityTwo contrasting types of ethnic relations: the case of two cities of Kurdistan/Iraq
Is it inevitable that tensions between ethnic groups should degenerate into ethnic conflicts? The Kurdish/Iraqi case...
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Published in: HomeMoral principles, the ‘Leftists’, and the Syrian Revolution
Criticizing the uprising, in itself, is not immoral. But what is immoral, is to criticize the uprising without...
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Published in: HomePartners in need: Turkey, the European Union and the United States face the Arab Spring
The Arab spring has cast Turkey back into the western fold and away from alternative alliance patterns which seemed...
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Published in: HomeAll stick and no carrot
Why are Europe's fiscal technocrats so afraid of democracy? There is no evidence that good economics requires...
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Published in: HomeSyria: my enemy’s enemy is not my friend
The failure of some elements of ‘the Left’ to see a real revolution even when it stares them in the face.
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Published in: HomeSino-Indian defence dialogue: should India be worried?
Fifty years after the 1962 war which left bitter memories and pending border issues, relations between China and...
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Published in: HomeAhmadinejad, an anti-imperialist - really?
It is necessary for world opinion to progress beyond the crude binary opposition of the enemy image if we want to...