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er is Reader in Strategic Studies at the University of Reading. Dr. Porter is the author of Military Orientalism: Eastern War through Western Eyes (Columbia University Press and Hurst, 2009) and The Global Village Myth: Distance, Strategy and Modern War (Georgetown University Press, forthcoming). Article 6. The Washin

p 2.0: Superpower Suicide? EFTA00718102 Patrick Porter May 2, 2014 -- Though Russian troops gather on Ukraine's border, and civil war devastates Aleppo, the view from Washington still sees the 'big story' of this century as the rise of China and the mischief it entails. The big question is about th

bilateral ceasefire and is backed by a recently established legal framework for peace talks with the guerrillas. While the FARC continues to attack Colombia's infrastructure, the guerilla leadership that defiantly led the group during the last round of peace talks has mostly been killed or captured. Per

cess. The Palestinian Authority has since announced that it will cancel the tax increase. Syria: Fighting continues to focus on the northern city of Aleppo, though intense shelling of parts of the capital has also been reported, and reports documenting the brutality of both sides continue despite warnin

put, people want more. " [T]he regime is branded as an expedient, something temporary and transitional needed to meet the exigencies of the time," Columbia University professor Andrew Nathan wrote about China's communist system. "Authoritarian regimes in this sense are not forever. For all their diversity and lon

But he was then in the midst of a vicious sectarian war against the Muslim Brotherhood, with their power in the souks and the mosques of Hama and Aleppo and Damascus. For the Sunni artisans in the warrens of these old cities, the presidency of a peasant—and an Alawite peasant at that, hailing from a

bilateral ceasefire and is backed by a recently established legal framework for peace talks with the guerrillas. While the FARC continues to attack Colombia's infrastructure, the guerilla leadership that defiantly led the group during the last round of peace talks has mostly been killed or captured. Per

cess. The Palestinian Authority has since announced that it will cancel the tax increase. Syria: Fighting continues to focus on the northern city of Aleppo, though intense shelling of parts of the capital has also been reported, and reports documenting the brutality of both sides continue despite warni