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The Greek Elections: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
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- June 20, 2012
All eyes were focused on the Greeks on Sunday. Even German Chancellor Angela Merkel was sitting in her plane on the tarmac in Berlin waiting for the results of the elections before she could take off for the G20 meeting in Los Cabos, Mexico. If Syriza had won the elections, Merkel and her EU partners
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Intelligence, Policy, and the War in Iraq
- Analysis
- June 20, 2012
CIPS Policy Brief No.18, June 2012. By JOSHUA ROVNER, U.S. Naval War College. Some amount of friction is normal in relations between intelligence agencies and policymakers. However, intelligence-policy relations become pathological when policymakers neglect intelligence or politicize it. The flawed estimates of Iraq’s supposed chemical, biological and nuclear weapons were the result of a complete collapse
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Égypte, autopsie d’une élection
- Analysis
- June 19, 2012
Les derniers 18 mois de l’histoire d’Égypte prouvent combien Churchill avait raison quand il soutenait que la démocratie était le pire des systèmes jusqu’à ce que l’on en trouve un meilleur. L’Égypte prouve également que la tenue d’élections n’est qu’un instrument de l’expression démocratique et n’en est nullement le fondement. On est passé de l’Égypte
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Going Along to Get Along? Canada Soft-Pedals Russia’s Role in Syria
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- June 16, 2012
Why is Canada giving Russia an easy ride on Syria? Moscow has been running diplomatic interference for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and providing his regime with weapons. Meanwhile, Assad’s loyalists have escalated their attacks on Syrian civilians, including women and children. Until this week, we heard barely a peep from Ottawa about Russia’s indefensible role
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