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Europe

The UK response to the “refugee crisis” is theoretically sound but practically counterproductive

The UK Conservative government has a strategy for tackling the current “refugee crisis” that is theoretically convincing but practically contradictory. The strategy consists of letting as few refugees onto UK soil as it can...
by Gustav Isherwood
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Afghanistan

Afghanistan bombings impact on peace resolution

A series of unfortunate bombings and suicide attacks shook the entire region of Afghanistan in the past few weeks, killing at least 65 people and injuring numerous others in Kabul. It has been termed as the deadliest phase in K...
by Arpita Mitra
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Iraq

Turkey’s reluctant fight against ISIS

Turkish policy is “to pretend that it is waging a war against IS, while at the same time following up on another goal, which is to destroy the PKK“. – Kerem Oktem, Professor, Centre for Southeast European Stud...
by Samson Faboye
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Iran

The Iran Deal: A triumph for soft power

On July 14th, An agreement was finalised by The United States, Great Britain, Germany, Russia, France, China, and Iran, on the latter’s nuclear programme, summarised neatly as follows: “The full implementation of this JCPOA...
by Simon Fraser
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Armenia

Armenia’s genocide

In an address to a group of Nazi leaders and Wehrmacht Generals in 1939, the German Führer, Adolf Hitler was reported to have said: “Who, after all, speaks today about the annihilation of the Armenians…….?” The...
by Samson Faboye
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Iran

China’s stakes in the Iran nuclear deal

On 3 April 2015 an outline agreement on the future of Iran’s nuclear program was reached, running over the self-imposed 31 March deadline. When the leaders did emerge, they did so with an understanding that there would be a ...
by Aparna Chandrasekar
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Iraq

UNESCO’s “Unite4Heritage” Campaign: Effective in the Middle East?

‘Syrian citizens were bent over, crumbled to the floor in rubble and crying for the loss they felt from seeing their buildings and monuments destroyed. These brave people had risked their own lives to try to save these ...
by Flo Carson
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Human Rights

The abducted assyrians and the fight against the Islamic State

The Islamic State has released 19 Assyrians after they abducted an estimated 220 members of an Assyrian community in Northern Syria. The abduction is just one in a staggering series of attacks towards Christian communities in t...
by Bauke Danielle Schram
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Eurasia

A changed world: 2012 foreign policy predictions and outcomes

A Changed World A look back at three major foreign policy claims of the 2012 US Presidential Election and forward to the road ahead, providing letter grades A to F for the candidates predictions. Issue #1: Iran Then: The electi...
by Jack Stukel
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