December 2011
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Hope & Peril in Europe's Landing Pads: The Euro...
Antwerp
It is an early Saturday evening on Handelstraat, a busy and somewhat dishevelled boulevard in the north of this historic Belgian port city, its sidewalks lined with outdoor cafés and tea shops, fish restaurants, butchers and bakeries, all of them buzzing with customers. It’s a typical European street scene, except that most of the people have olive-coloured skin, many women sport...
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The Inevitable Economics of Tahrir Square
Cairo on Friday was a tableau of bloodied faces, firebombs and rocks, club-swinging soldiers and turbulent street battles. If this year began with a simple arithmetic of immovable protesters facing down a dictatorship, it is ending with a more complicated geometry involving a power-wielding army, resurgent Islamists and humiliated protesters.
How do we understand the new politics of the Arab...
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The Night David Cameron Failed
London
Forget economics. This was a political moment, and it will be remembered, possibly for a very long time, as the moment the politicians failed.
Angela Merkel failed: The German Chancellor could have used her country’s nearly unanimous clout to confront the root causes of the euro crisis, which lie in inequalities of trade and a collapse in consumption, but instead chose to pretend it was a...
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Three Misconceptions about Peacekeeping and...
This is a presentation about peacekeeping operations (PKO) and the Responsibility to Protect doctrine (R2P) made by Roland Paris of the University of Ottawa during the 40th annual Canada-UK Colloquium at Wilton Park, England. It is referenced in my column on the challenges of humanitarian war.
Three Misconceptions About Peacekeeping and Intervention// < 