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Dan Smith: The UN Peacebuilding Fund – four years on

December 11, 2011 | ELIAMEP | | Read the article »

The decision to set up the UN Peacebuilding Commission, Peacebuilding Support Office and Peacebuilding Fund was taken in September 2005 and bit by bit the new architecture was ready for business in 2006 and into 2007. I have just finished four years on the Fund’s independent Advisory Group, the last two as its chair, so [...]

Evangelos Venetis: History Repeating – British Foreign Policy on Iran and the Mossadeq Crisis

December 11, 2011 | Evangelos Venetis | | Read the article »

You may well know that a major feature of history is that it never stops being repeated. Recent British attempts to impose an EU embargo on Iranian oil imports are reminiscent of the Mossadeq crisis (1951-1953). At the time due to Iran’s unilateral decision to nationalize its oil industry, London imposed an all out embargo [...]


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