Foreign Affairs
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Ten years ago, when the Cuban regime bet the house on slight and modest economic reforms, Quadrant reported on daily life and the possibility that a measure of freedom might emerge. Today, as mass protests fill Havana's streets, we reprise that examination of a plan that with the benefit of 20/20 hindsight could do nothing but failJuly 14, 2021
22 mins
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To combat a threat it is essential to recognise it and this US President simply cannot acknowledge that Islamist terror is a genuine peril, with one source citing him as likening it to the possibility of being killed in a bathroom fall. Is it any wonder the West is losing?October 12, 2016
12 mins
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It is inevitable that a reviewer would be attracted to […]October 1, 2016
31 mins
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The catastrophic failure of Peronist populism was sealed at last by November’s presidential elections and the victory of conservative free-marketeer Mauricio Macri. In the Vatican, however, one can only wonder if the brilliantined dictator's direct and indirect influence lives onFebruary 21, 2016
12 mins
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If members of our diverse nation do not share an unqualified revulsion at Islamist crimes and outrages then we have nothing in common. The lights of Western society -- justice, equality, truth -- are being extinguished one by one. We may never see them lit again in our lifetimeJanuary 8, 2016
15 mins
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I do not know whether I have been more struck […]
January 1, 2016
40 mins
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It is the basis of sound policy to regard the world as it is, not as we might wish it. This means recognising the value, sometimes, of flexibility when dealing with regimes whose values are objectionable or worse. Tehran and Moscow come immediately to mindOctober 26, 2015
15 mins
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In the June edition of Quadrant, Daryl McCann wrote of a weak US president and a ruthless Russian leader given to aggression and adventurism. The destruction of Flight MH17 over Ukraine makes that essay more prophecy than punditryJuly 20, 2014
21 mins
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There are no such people as Palestinians and there never have been. Nor was there ever a state called Palestine or a Palestinian culture or a Palestinian language. If truth prevails over the left's revisionist history, Palestine will never be more than the name of a geographical regionJune 7, 2014
6 mins
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Don’t untie the tethered elephant. —Arabic proverb The […]
April 1, 2012
22 mins
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Nearly three months after the fall of Mubarak, Egypt remains […]
May 1, 2011
24 mins
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A couple of years ago, the conventional wisdom held that […]
December 31, 2010
16 mins
