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25/08/2018 | Frente Externo
Analysis - Afghanistan: Who Is Winning?
“You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive,” says Sherlock Holmes on first meeting Dr Watson, later to be his great friend and companion. But already, in the first words of the first Sherlock Holmes novel, A Study in Scarlet, Watson has provided an account of his unhappy experiences in the Second Anglo-Afghan War.
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10/07/2018 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Iran: Is This The Beginning Of The End? – OpEd
Rumbles of discontent, erupting into public protests, are nothing new in Iran. They predate the Islamic Revolution of 1979 which swept the Shah from the throne and Ayatollah Khomeini into power. Today, among the slogans being chanted in the mass demonstrations bursting out all over Iran and threatening the very stability of the regime, are: “Reza Shah, God bless your soul.” In short, the regime of the ayatollahs has long outlived its honeymoon period.
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01/05/2018 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
The Commonwealth: A Role In The Peace Process? – OpEd
The biennial Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting opened on April 16, 2018 in London. Most of the world’s media, except perhaps those of the Commonwealth nations, gave the event less attention than it deserves – but that has been the fate of the Commonwealth itself for many years.
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25/04/2018 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Realignment In The Middle East – OpEd
Once upon a time Turkey and Israel were the greatest of friends. In March 1949 Turkey was the first Islamic nation to recognize the new state of Israel. Over the next fifty years, despite some ups and downs, the relationship flourished. In the Cold War Turkey was a key ally of the Western camp and in the 1990s, under the aegis of the United States, Israel and Turkey established bilateral defense, security and economic partnerships which burgeoned into strong social and cultural ties.
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22/12/2017 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Erdogan And The Jerusalem Issue – OpEd
Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, is a thoroughgoing Muslim Brotherhood adherent, and has been since he first entered politics. During his early years as prime minister, back in the early 2000s, he was careful not to promote too radical an agenda too soon. Despite his Islamist views, he made an official visit to Israel in 2005 to be feted by Israeli prime minister, Ariel Sharon. However it was not long before the previously close relations between Turkey and Israel began to sour. The turning point came in 2009, with the first conflict between Israel and Hamas, which had seized power in the Gaza strip and had been firing rockets indiscriminately into Israel.
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10/09/2017 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
War-Torn Syria: Can Saudi Arabia Broker Peace? – OpEd
Devastated after years of conflict, Syria remains a huge battlefield, the scene of at least six separate military clashes.
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21/08/2017 | En Parrilla
Israel-Palestine: A Deal In The Making? – OpEd
From early on in his bid for the presidency Donald Trump was intrigued by the possibility of brokering a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians.
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10/05/2017 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
OpEd - Hezbollah And The Balance Of Power In Lebanon
Lebanon’s president, Michel Aoun, is a fervent Hezbollah supporter; Lebanon’s prime minister, Saad Hariri, most certainly is not. Hariri’s position is scarcely surprising, since he has every reason to believe that back in 2005 his father, Rafik, was brutally assassinated by Hezbollah operatives, acting on the orders of Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad.
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17/03/2017 | Frente Externo
The Commonwealth Spreads Its Wings – OpEd
The Commonwealth is a facet of contemporary life that most people know little about. The Commonwealth games, interposed every four years between the Olympics, might arouse a flicker of interest across the globe, but as for the background or purposes of the organization there is little general knowledge or concern. And yet the Commonwealth has the potential to exert an enormous power for good on global politics.
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21/10/2015 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Hope For South Sudan – OpEd
To begin at the beginning, South Sudan – Africa’s youngest state – was born in the flames of civil conflict. Its achievement of independent status in July 2011 was the culmination of more than a century of armed struggle by autonomy-seeking southern Sudanese activists. But taking up arms to achieve one’s ends is a difficult habit to break. Only four years after its birth, the infant state of South Sudan is itself engaged in a bloody civil war.
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16/06/2014 | Frente Externo
This Palestinian Façade – OpEd
Full marks to Egypt’s newly elected president, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. Alone among the world’s statesmen, he has refused to recognize the cobbled-together Fatah-Hamas “unity” government. Hamas is formally designated a “terrorist organization” by the United States and the European Union, just as it is by Egypt.
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