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| Tuesday 24 March 2009 |
The legacy of Kosovo? International paternalism
The transformation of Kosovo into a colonial-style protectorate exposes the authoritarianism behind Western governments’ ‘ethical’ foreign policies.
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| Thursday 22 January 2009 |
Israel, Gaza and the politics of victimhood
Are we seeing the rise of ‘humanitarian’ anti-Semitism, with Israelis treated as the new Serbs? One author thinks so.
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| Friday 29 August 2008 |
Philip Bobbitt: you’re either with him or against him
Terror and Consent has been hailed as a profound treatise on terrorism. In truth, it rehashes the paranoia and authoritarianism of the ‘war on terror’ and writes off anyone who dares to disagree with its thesis.
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| Friday 25 July 2008 |
Mythologising the past, misunderstanding the future
Robert Kagan’s hotly debated book on the return of realpolitik to international affairs paints a rosy picture of the 1990s and a nightmarish vision of our potentially China-ruled future.
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| Friday 28 March 2008 |
Hallucinations of Empire
In a penetrating analysis head-and-shoulders above most other books on al-Qaeda, Iraq and Islamism, Olivier Roy shows that the ‘politics of chaos’, not the ‘politics of Empire’, rules the roost in the Middle East.
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| Wednesday 20 February 2008 |
Kosovo and the end of national liberation
The doublespeak in Kosovo’s ‘supervised independence’ sets a dangerous precedent, dressing up occupation as ‘freedom’ and interference as ‘democracy’.
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| Monday 18 February 2008 |
Kosovo: the obedient child of Europe
Kosovo has not ‘declared independence’. It has slavishly submitted to the rule of UN officials, NATO troops and dictatorial modern-day viceroys.
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| Thursday 2 August 2007 |
Darfur: colonised by 'peacekeepers'
The new 26,000-strong UN force being sent to the war-torn western province of Sudan is likely to stir up further tensions rather than deliver peace.
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| Thursday 10 May 2007 |
Intellectual imperialism
A fashion-shoot cum missionary visit: Bernard-Henri Lévy's report from Darfur shows that liberal lust for Western intervention survived Iraq.
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| Tuesday 1 May 2007 |
When ‘Third World’ was a byword for revolution
The Darker Nations by Vijay Prashad looks back to a time when people saw more in the South than poverty and corruption.
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| Tuesday 20 February 2007 |
A pre-emptive anti-war movement?
Why President Bush’s critics seem more convinced that America will attack Iran than does the President himself.
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| Wednesday 31 January 2007 |
'Popcorn politics'? It sticks in the throat
Blood Diamond, the Hollywood human rights thriller set in war-torn Sierra Leone, patronises both Africans and Western cinemagoers.
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| Wednesday 24 January 2007 |
Serbia votes, the West decides
The people have marked their ballots, yet the region's future is more likely to be decided in New York than Belgrade.
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| Tuesday 26 September 2006 |
What ever happened to the ‘good war’?
As Afghanistan starts to look more like Iraq, its image as a just war of self-defence is being questioned.
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| Monday 4 September 2006 |
Exposing ‘Empire in denial’
David Chandler’s new book reveals that the West’s penchant for state-building in the Third World is really about extending its power.
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| Tuesday 15 August 2006 |
An Orwellian occupation
Taking Doublespeak to a new level, the United Nations will send a 15,000-strong force to occupy Lebanon in the name of strengthening it.
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| Friday 7 July 2006 |
Operation Restore NATO’s Prestige
The creaky North Atlantic alliance, a hangover from the Cold War, is intervening in Afghanistan in an attempt to save itself rather than the Afghan people.
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| Monday 26 June 2006 |
Aussie rules in the Pacific
Why Australian prime minister John Howard is slated for supporting the war in Iraq but cheered for reconquering the Solomon Islands and East Timor.
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| Thursday 15 June 2006 |
East Timor: when nation-building destroys
The Pacific state’s slide into turmoil exposes the hollowness of the ‘independence’ granted to it by the UN.
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| Thursday 11 May 2006 |
Fair trade: the bitter aftertaste
spiked-film: A new film makes a timely and thought-provoking attack on an unquestioned orthodoxy of our age.
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