Is The Global Order Changing?
We are not experiencing the rise of a challenger to the current hegemony, but an interregnum in which the current arbiter of liberalism, the US, is in relative decline. [dhr] [dhr]...
View ArticleHow Dangerous is Terrorism?
Terrorism is dangerous, but it is dangerous to people in failed states, developing states and conflict zones, not those in the West. It plays into the hands of the media and government to play those...
View ArticleCould There Be Another Iranian Revolution? (Part 2)
Will the Green Movement pull off a second Iranian revolution? The second of a two part series examining the feasibility and probability of such an occurrence taking place. [dhr] [dhr] You can read the...
View ArticleAfghanistan Part 1: The Failure Of ‘Hearts and Minds’
That ISAF/UN attempt to win over the hearts and minds of Afghanistan has not been a great success, but the campaign by the Taliban to win over those of the domestic populations of the West has been a...
View ArticleAfghanistan Part 2: The Rise Of ‘Green On Blue’ Attacks
The recent surge of ‘green on blue’ attacks in Afghanistan may be the most successful tactic in the history of this conflict towards this aim, the aim of breaking the will of domestic populations to...
View ArticleAsia and the Rest: Lines, Circles and Triangles
In this brief reflection Marco Pellerey explains why the international political chessboard should be understood as a set of straight lines, circles and triangles: a place where different forms of...
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