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02/10/2015 Article

Syria: The Strategic Site

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Conflicts Forum Weekly Comment, 11-18 Sept 2015: What is striking about the Middle East today is the apparent compression of time.  Not long ago, crises

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12/09/2015 Article

The Incipient NATO-ifcation of the Syrian Conflict

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Conflicts Forum Weekly Comment, 4-11 Sept 2015   Retired Chief of Staff at the State Department, during Colin Powell’s mandate, Lawrence Wilkerson, in his lecture

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12/09/2015 Article

Reading the Middle Eastern Strategic Tea Leaves

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Conflicts Forum Weekly Comment, 31 August – 4 Sept 2015 It seems – as much as anything can be certain in today’s world – that President

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12/09/2015 Article

Saudi Arabia and the Game of Dominoes

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Coflicts Forum Weekly Comment, 21-28 August 2015 That the drop in the price of oil is hitting Saudi revenues hard is a commonplace. But crude

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12/09/2015 Article

A Middle East Reset?

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Conflicts Forum Weekly Comment, 7 August 2015 So, it is becoming clearer what is afoot between Washington and Moscow: It has been plain for some

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07/07/2015 Article

The enabling of ‘useful proxies’ becomes ‘la mode’

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Conflicts Forum’s Weekly Comment, 26 June – 3 July 2015  In our last Weekly Comment, we quoted the US Defence Secretary saying: “That is an important part

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07/07/2015 Article

Syria

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Conflicts Forum’s Weekly Comment, 19-26 June 2015 “This has nothing to do with building an oil pipeline. It is to build a free and democratic life”

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07/07/2015 Article

Is Hamas coming to the Old Arab Order’s rescue?

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Conflicts Forum’s Weekly Comment, 12-19 June 2015 Zvi Bar’el, writing in Haaretz somewhat provocatively insists, “It’s hard to explain how the gossip columnists have missed

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07/07/2015 Article

ISIS & the crisis of Sunni Islam: “This is not an ISIS revolution. This is a Sunni revolution”

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Conflicts Forum, 12 June 2015 An edited version of this piece was published by Energy Intelligence (June 2015) “This is not an ISIS revolution. This is a

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