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 Henry Jackson Society
To the launch of a new book by the Henry Jackson Society, “The British moment”. The book is based on the belief that foreign policy should be based on values
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Failure in his own terms
I thought when I saw the advance billing of Tony Blair’s speech at Georgetown University last Friday (which you can read here) that I would have some interesting thoughts on
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A response to the Euston manifesto
My eye is drawn by the announcement in this week’s New Statesman of a new left-liberal grouping, based around the so-called Euston manifesto. (Read the manifesto here.) Before commenting on
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Infuriating
The farewell article by Bill Emmott, outgoing editor of the Economist, is the usual mixture of insight and infuriation. You can read it here. The insight lies in his welcome
Taking George W Bush seriously
By John Williams A review of: The president of good and evil: taking George W Bush seriously” by Peter Singer (Granta Books, 2004) “Plan of attack” by Bob Woodward (Simon
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Federalism in the post-cold-war era
By John Williams A review of: “Tony Blair: the making of a world leader” by Philip Stephens (Viking, 2004) “The Bubble of American Supremacy” by George Soros (Weidenfeld & Nicolson,
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After Iraq: can we build a better world?
By Adrian Taylor As the Iraq war fades, some repairs need to be made to transatlantic relations. The good news is that Europeans and Americans can probably agree that: i)
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The Convention is failing to learn the lessons of the crisis in Iraq
Federalist Letter to the European Constitutional Convention Issue number 8, 11 June 2003 THE CONVENTION IS FAILING TO LEARN THE LESSONS OF THE CRISIS IN IRAQ The hype about the
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After Iraq: America and Europe
This letter was sent to William Shawcross, the well-known writer and broadcaster, in response to his 2003 Harkness Lecture, “After Iraq: America and Europe” which you can read here. Dear
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