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Why Obama’s Strategy Against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria Is Likely to Fail

September 23, 2014January 9, 2015 by Editor
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Dr Johan Franzén argues that the US led strategy to demobilise the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria is unlikely to succeed.  President Barack Obama recently announced a new American campaign against the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham (al-Dawlah al-Islamiyyah fi al-'Iraq wa al-Sham; ISIS). This campaign, in Obama's…
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Iraq, Syria and the Middle East – a response to Tony Blair

June 18, 2014January 9, 2015 by Editor
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Professor Lee Marsden provides a critique of Tony Blair's recent essay on 'Iraq, Syria and the Middle East'. Tony Blair’s latest intervention in events in the Middle East have been summarily dismissed by London Mayor Boris Johnson as ‘unhinged’. While such comments are hardly respectful towards the current Middle East…
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