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global securityInternational Security Correspondent Paul Rogers provides weekly commentary on the 'war on terror'. His acute commentaries are an indispensable guide to explaining the present conflict's development and mapping the future.
The world's leaders must address endemic global inequality and insecurity, or pay a heavy price
How will Obama change al-Qaida's prospects? The renowned management consultancy advises
Economic crisis should be a prelude to an IT-rich era of fairness, security and clean
energy
Washington's strike on Syria reflects both military concern and political calculation
The global financial shock should lead to real reform. But will world leaders learn from history?
The world's financial turmoil is a rare opportunity to reform global governance
A flailing western policy seeks to fight the Taliban to a settlement. It may not work
The long post-9/11 war has no end in sight. What happened, and how can the damage be repaired?
The first of a two-part retrospective: mistakes made, lessons learned and paths not taken
Washington’s military strategy in the Afghan border region expands its range of enemies
The al-Qaida movement again seeks advice from the renowned
management consultancy
A United States pressed by Iraq and Afghanistan now faces an even larger
strategic challenge
The Taliban's new tactics are taking them nearer to Kabul. Washington's response: redouble failure
Moscow’s war in Georgia and Tehran’s nuclear project highlight the west's strategic failings
In Afghanistan, Nigeria, the Philippines, and Mexico, insurgents reinvent a politics of rage
A tide of discontent and insurgency places the viability of the world's economic model in question
The United States remains
trapped by a military logic that guarantees an unwinnable
campaign
The cautious optimism over Washington's dialogue with Tehran may be premature
If Britain is serious about controlling nuclear proliferation, it has to take a lead
The elements of the global war are shifting faster than the strategy of America and its allies
The revived talk of war with Iran is tied to the unfolding race for the United States presidency
An intensified American effort in Afghanistan is again globalising a local conflict
The US military plans for long-term, low-intensity insurgency with its thinking locked in the past
The story of an Iraqi city and an Afghan prince should be a lesson to western states and media
Washington's problems in Iraq and Afghanistan are leading it to refocus its military attentions on Tehran
What will the world be like in 2020? Here are two scenarios, in the author's 350th openDemocracy column since September 2001
Today's food crisis echoes the early 1970s'. But global finance and climate change make it new
A French colonial defeat inspires a Taliban aiming to erode the resolve of the United
States
Washington's
bubble of optimism about Iraq
has burst, revealing the contrast between American and jihadi
strategic thinking
The
uncertain and fragile security situation in Iraq challenges the view that the war is being
won
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