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      <title>The neoliberal assault on academia </title>
      <description>The neoliberal sacking of the universities runs much deeper than tuition hikes and budget cuts, notes Barkawi. </description>
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      <title>Nuclear Orientalism </title>
      <description>The North Korean bomb may be an uncomfortable fact of life, but so too is the US bomb, notes Barakawi. </description>
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      <title>The new politics of defence</title>
      <description>Conservatives have lapsed in their support of the military - perhaps the centre-left should pick up the mantle.</description>
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      <title>Syria and the impotence of the West</title>
      <description>The absence of an armed guarantor will make peace in Syria harder to achieve, writes Barkawi.</description>
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      <title>ZD30: Hollywood does history</title>
      <description>ZD30 again highlights the reality that cinema teaches Americans more about history than the hard labour of historians. </description>
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      <title>Strategy over Security </title>
      <description>The security paradigm has a habit of derailing political debate at the cost of critical thinking, and ultimately lives. </description>
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      <title>Insurgency and diplomacy</title>
      <description>The Syrian resistance should take a note from the Algerians who fought for independence from France.</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2012 16:19:36 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Lessons from the al-Qaeda chronicles: Romney and the attack on women</title>
      <description>Women-hating in the US is "not limited to the Republican Party", but can also be found in the "citadels of liberalism".</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2012 04:54:18 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Civilisation and savagery at war</title>
      <description>The label "savage" is often found in imperial contexts, in wars between Western powers and indigenous peoples. </description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2012 11:48:59 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Global Islam vs the Western nation-state</title>
      <description>If the anger against the anti-Islam video tells us anything, it's that extremism fuels extremism.</description>
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      <title>The sting of subjugation: 'Green on blue' attacks in Afghanistan</title>
      <description>Afghans are killing Western troops because the US and NATO are in occupation of their country, writes Barkawi. </description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2012 07:35:12 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Invasions and evasions:  The Tutu-Blair paradox</title>
      <description>Tony Blair and Desmond Tutu share a vision of world politics as an epic struggle between good and evil, writes Barkawi. </description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2012 10:29:22 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Democracy and the nation-state in Syria and the world</title>
      <description>A new Syrian nation can be born in the inferno of struggle, one that can overcome differences that appear unbridgeable.</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2012 15:13:27 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Human rights at war in Syria</title>
      <description>Human rights organisations must start coping with reality: The victors write the laws and hold the trials.</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Aug 2012 14:12:25 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Victory for Free Syria</title>
      <description>Syrian troops will soon regard everyone outside their own units as potential enemies. </description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2012 09:04:15 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Profit and security at the London Olympics</title>
      <description>G4S' failure to meet its Olympics contract is about profits rather than a lack of recruits. </description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2012 12:45:06 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Syria: War from the inside out</title>
      <description>War is nihilistic: it resists any consistent meaning we try to find in it.</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2012 13:54:31 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>9/11 stole my whiteness</title>
      <description>External events, such as 9/11, can rapidly change the political salience of race in the West - and this should worry us.</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2012 12:07:30 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The West has lost its grip on war</title>
      <description>The absence of a coherent left and right is only the latest sign of the political bankruptcy of the West.</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 10:13:45 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Equality in army and society</title>
      <description>It is time to accept that women and men are equal even in war, says author.</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 11:29:09 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The bomb, civilisation, and the human race</title>
      <description>The possession and potential use of nuclear weapons by others is what currently justifies nuclear arsenals. </description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 09:30:31 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The plague of war in Syria</title>
      <description>With the rebels and government at near-stalemate, the country's fate is likely to be more war and 'Lebanonisation'.</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 18:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Denial and defeat in Afghanistan</title>
      <description>A US soldier's massacre of 16 Afghan civilians is causing US-Afghan relations to fray further.</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 14:43:42 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Book burning: When history repeats itself</title>
      <description>The insurgency in Afghanistan is savvy and strategic - and will likely weaken Western resolve to stay in the country.</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 12:39:14 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Islam and the West together again in Syria</title>
      <description>Western interests sometimes intersect with those of armed groups which operate under an Islamic banner.</description>
      <link>http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/02/2012217122329230971.html</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 10:19:31 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Power, knowledge and the universities </title>
      <description>In higher education, donors can often exert substantial influence over the curriculum.</description>
      <link>http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/02/2012269402871736.html</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:49:50 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Failing upwards: Living in a bureaucratic world</title>
      <description>Although there are three main frames used to understand the world, a Weberian fourth is realising itself.</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:11:12 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>US marines: Watch where you aim</title>
      <description>Condemning the urination of US marines on insurgent corpses as inhumane makes little sense.</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 10:44:55 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Air strikes and the decline of western prestige</title>
      <description>The response to recent air strikes in Pakistan shows to what extent US power abroad has declined. </description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 11:53:14 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Iraq, lost in the fog of war</title>
      <description>As Obama declares the war in Iraq officially over, many wonder about which - if any - goals were achieved.</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 08:29:34 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Citizens of global Britain, unite!</title>
      <description>Great Britain must draw on the experiences and aftermath of the past to imagine a new Global Britain.</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 07:54:18 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The UK should be less 'Western' and more 'global' </title>
      <description>The UK should use the economic crisis to look beyond the Atlantic to reinvent its global policy and identity.</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:20:58 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Intervention without responsibility</title>
      <description>The Libyan 'no-fly' zone of intervening may have paved new way for treating symptoms without addressing the problem.</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 08:44:03 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>A vision of the whole human race</title>
      <description>Revolutionary ideas do not come from books and manifestos, but from experiences and connections with different peoples.</description>
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      <title>The lost bases of the US empire</title>
      <description>The US maintains more than 700 military facilities on foreign soil that may not be as sustainable in the near future.</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2011 07:34:24 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Peace may be war in post-war Libya</title>
      <description>The scars Gaddafi has left Libya, coupled with the West's role, will complicate a 'post-war' period.</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 10:17:29 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Ritual in the revolution?</title>
      <description>Chanting and dancing are more vital for political protest than information technologies and social media, says scholar.</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 08:43:03 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The false promise of the nation-state</title>
      <description>Emerging nation-states like Libya and Palestine are constrained by local elites integration in socio-economic networks.</description>
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      <title>The West's self-licking ice cream cones</title>
      <description>Self-licking ice cream cones are entities that serve no purpose except to sustain themselves.</description>
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      <title>9/11 and the makers of history</title>
      <description>Ten years after 9/11, the West will have to retreat from political and military efforts to control the global South.</description>
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      <title>Libya and the invention of Brown Britain</title>
      <description>Instead of acting as a coloniser in Libya, the UK could model itself as an authentic post-colonial state open to all.</description>
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      <title>The biggest threat to Western values</title>
      <description>Multiculturalism does not pose a significant danger to Western values - but neoliberalism does.</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 10:57:19 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The tragedy of imperial retreat</title>
      <description>When the US withdraws from Afghanistan, don't expect much help for the people it leaves behind.</description>
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      <title>World politics and the revolution in Libya</title>
      <description>It's time for new thinking for Libya, or the post-revolution country may find itself as a neo-colony.</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 03 Jul 2011 12:55:27 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Military globalisation is nothing new</title>
      <description>Global interests are protected, as history has shown, by worldwide circulation of military and security forces.</description>
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      <title>Manifest destiny and the 'Wild West Bank'</title>
      <description>US-Israeli ties may be based on the identification of Israel's settler movement as a reflection of frontier past of US.</description>
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      <title>Academic freedom and 'dangerous ideas'</title>
      <description>As much of the West becomes increasingly Islamophobic - universities are assumed "breeding grounds" for radicalisation.</description>
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      <title>A tale of two sieges: Jerusalem and Misurata</title>
      <description>As the Roman siege of Jerusalem in 70 CE reminds us, groups that suffer together increase their resolve and solidarity.</description>
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      <title>Breaking bread with terrorists</title>
      <description>Asymmetric warfare is the result of conflict between the powerful and the powerless, reinforcing a cycle of violence.</description>
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      <title>War and truth in Libya and Palestine</title>
      <description>The realpolitik of war has the ability to dismantle old truths and create new ones.</description>
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