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September 20, 2012

Why the East Is Beating the West

Matthew d'Ancona, London Evening Standard

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During the Cold War, two blocs of nations stood ranged against one another in an easily comprehended conflict between two economic and political systems. In our age, the fault-lines are not so easily detected. Warfare is frequently asymmetric. The proximate causes of battle are often hyper-local, tribal and sectarian. The threads that link one to the other are not always easy to detect.

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