A visit by the Saudi king
I have written before on this blog about the drawbacks of diplomacy. The state visit by King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia seems like a good occasion to write about the […]
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Elevated principles
There are times when I wonder whether the debates we have about federalism and the international system really are as novel as we sometimes imagine. Maybe a lot of what
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Diplomacy
An interesting talk yesterday by Carne Ross, formerly of the Foreign Office and now acting as an “Independent Diplomat”. (You can read about him here) He had an engaging and
Morality in foreign policy
Amid all the debate about the Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the consequences, civilian and political, that have followed, I was prompted to have another look at an old article
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The truth about Lebanon
An excellent posting by Joschka Fischer, former German foreign minister, on the Guardian comment site here. Since leaving the Bundestag after the last election (in which the grand coalition pushed
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Guantanamo all along
I’m not sure what to make of Prime Minister’s Question Time yesterday. Asked about the closure of Guantanamo Bay, Tony Blair said “I agree that it is an anomaly
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Sidelined in Berlin
By Richard Laming Published in EUobserver, 18 February 2004 When Gerhard Schröder, Jacques Chirac and Tony Blair gather in Berlin today for their trilateral summit, everyone will be remarking on how
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