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Revolutionising the Concept of Victory: the Lesson not Learned by the Enquiry into Israel’s Lebanon War In the light of the 2006 foray into Lebenon, the Israeli military has, despite the initiation of an enquiry, failed to appreciate the inherent problems in its concept of victory.
Dr Orit Gal

Patriotic Blackness: Africa and the Crisis in Zimbabwe The concept of 'patriotic blackness' is crucial to any understanding of Africa's stance towards Robert Mugabe's regime.
Knox Chitiyo

China and South Korea: Taking Each Other’s Measure President Myung Lee-bak’s summit visit to Beijing in May 2008 was declared a success by officials on both sides. Yet upon closer inspection the relationship remains one of the most problematic and complex in the region.
John Hemmings

Everybody Needs Good Neighbours: Iraqi Foreign Policy After the Elections Present developments between Iraq and its neighbours are effectively laying down the foreign policy foundations for the post-election government
Daniel Neep

A Glimpse of Clarity in China’s Military Modernisation The annual Pentagon report is now an integral part of the ‘China threat’ debate and has evolved to become both the comprehensive lexicon of the Chinese military order of battle and a benchmark for the analysis of the PLA.
Alexander Neill

Schismatic Colossus: Nigeria’s Thrust for Greatness For new Nigerian President Umaru Yar’Adua, the grand strategic objective is to progress from the perception of Nigeria as ‘merely’ a force multiplier, to becoming a stability and development multiplier.
Knox Chitiyo

Russia Insists Upon Preventive Strikes: The Possible Options When General Baluevsky, the new chief of Russian General Staff, declared on 8 September that Russia could deliver preventive strikes on terrorist bases anywhere in the world, most experts saw in that either an attempt to draw attention away from the dismal performance of security services in Beslan or simply a strategic bluff.
Dr. Pavel K. Baev

The International Criminal Court and Africa In July 2008, International Criminal Court (ICC) announced an ICC indictment against Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir.
Knox Chitiyo & Lawrence Devlin

Building a Constitution: Fracture Lines in the New Iraq Drafting a constitution that meets the demands of all of Iraq’s diverse communities is overly optimistic.
Meredith Carroll