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On Geopolitics
It’s Time to Beat Putin at Poker and Call His Bluff
Foreign Policy
All the world’s a stage and all the men and women merely players. William Shakespeare was onto something. Even when it comes to life’s most serious decisions, everyone chooses to play a role and inhabit a persona.
‘Regimes are temporary but the semi-sovereigns’ power is forever’
International Policy Digest
Jason Pack’s timely new book Libya and the Global Enduring Disorder (Oxford University Press, February 2022) sketches the myriad sinews of connections linking Libya, Ukraine, Syria, and Egypt
Why Putin Is Playing Poker, Not Chess
New Lines Magazine
Russia and the West are now at war. And the delicate dance leading to conflict between nuclear powers is a form of poker, not chess.
Think Tank Scholarship on Libya
Libya’s House of Cards: Elections Without Institutions
Lawfare
Editor’s Note: After years of civil war in Libya, the recent plan to hold elections there seems...
PERSPECTIVES ON TERRORISM
Terrorism Research Initiative
This Special Issue of Perspectives on Terrorism is devoted to al-Qaida (AQ). It contains 15...
The origins and evolution of ISIS in Libya
Atlantic Council
For the past three decades, Libya has been a rich recruiting ground for the global jihad....
Scholarship on the Libyan Economy
It’s the Economy Stupid: How Libya’s Civil War Is Rooted in Its Economic Structures
As Libya’s struggle for post-Qadhafi succession enters its ninth year, international peace-making...
Cultural Commenatry
Plato – slave-owning aristocrat or homosexual mystic?
The Spectator
For over two millennia, the writings of Plato had been at the very core of a Western education....
On Wine
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