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Authors: Dennis Sandole
Published Date: July 03, 2010
Abstract: Sir, Ed Crooks review of works of fiction dealing with climate change is revealing of one supreme irony: the writers of fiction may get global...
Authors: Dennis Sandole
Published Date: September 11, 2010
Abstract: Sir, Two of your recent book reviews, independently crafted by different reviewers of different volumes, converge in a marvellous display of...
Authors: Dennis Sandole
Published Date: July 03, 2010
Abstract: Sir, Ed Crooks review of works of fiction dealing with climate change is revealing of one supreme irony: the writers of fiction may get global...
Authors: Carrie Chomuik
Published Date: November 05, 2009
Abstract: Sir, It is a grave omission that Joe Leahy’s article “Sri Lanka speeds refugees’ return amid trade threat” (November 2) does...
Authors: Susan H. Allen
Published Date: May 15, 2009
Authors: Dennis Sandole
Published Date: May 12, 2009
Abstract: Sir, While the alleged Times Square bomber, Faisal Shahzad, may be the “first MBA terrorist” that some Pakistani intelligence officials...
Authors: Susan H. Allen
Published Date: February 26, 2009
Authors: Dennis Sandole
Published Date: December 16, 2008
Abstract: Sir, Gideon Rachman has crossed the Rubicon with his bold proposition that the “international community” go where no man or woman has...
Authors: Susan H. Allen
Published Date: November 22, 2008
Abstract: Sir, The letters (November 15/16) commenting on Ken Lotery’s letter (November 8/9) seem to have missed his point: your editorial “Plastic...
Authors: Michael Shank
Published Date: November 14, 2008
Authors: Michael Shank
Published Date: November 14, 2008
Abstract: To assume that the pervasive and persistent Somali piracy off the Horn of Africa is sound and fury signifying nothing of political substance, and...
Authors: Michael Shank
Published Date: September 05, 2008
Abstract: Sir, In an apparent editorial about-face ("Crime and the credit crunch", September 2), you claim that larger police forces and harsher...
Authors: Michael Shank
Published Date: July 01, 2008
Authors: Michael Shank
Published Date: May 16, 2008
Abstract: Sir, Heavy on protestation, light on substance, Robert Kagan's call for a concert of democratic countries begs a hypothetical test run ("The...
Published Date: May 15, 2008
Abstract: Sir, As citizens of Japan and China, we were quite surprised that your article "Hu makes friends with old foe" (May 9) missed the fact that...
Authors: Dennis Sandole
Published Date: May 15, 2008
Abstract: Sir, Serb voters have confounded the pundits by favouring the pro-European Union Democratic party of President Boris Tadic over the nationalist...
Authors: Michael Shank
Published Date: April 12, 2008
Abstract: Sir, With reference to your report, "US seeks Afghan heroin action" (April 5/6): the American proclivity for short-term, high-visibility...
Published Date: February 27, 2008
Abstract: Sir, Anna Fifield could be right to say it is naive to assume Pyongyang is preparing for change just because the New York Philharmonic Orchestra...
Authors: Susan H. Allen
Published Date: February 18, 2008
Abstract: Sir, Your report of Badri Patarkatsishvili’s death on Tuesday at the age of 52 (“Police probe sudden death of Georgian exiled tycoon...
Authors: Michael Shank
Published Date: February 15, 2008
Abstract: Sir, Paddy Ashdown still does not get it. His three-pronged policy prescription for Afghanistan ("A strategy to save Afghanistan", February...
Authors: Michael Shank
Published Date: January 17, 2008
Abstract: Sir, At long last, US strategy in Afghanistan is wising up ("From poppies to pomegranates", January 14). Putting crop eradication on the...
Authors: Michael Shank
Published Date: January 17, 2008
Authors: Dennis Sandole
Published Date: January 10, 2008
Abstract: Sir, General David Petraeus’ “surge” in Iraq, measured in terms of number of attacks and of US and Iraqi fatalities, has been a...
Authors: Susan H. Allen
Published Date: January 09, 2008
Abstract: Sir, Stefan Wagstyl (“Breakaway territories watch and wait”, January 3) considers the political fates of Abkhazia, South Ossetia and...
Authors: Michael Shank
Published Date: November 30, 2007
Abstract: Sir, Saudi Arabia and Syria hardly constitute a coalition of the craven ("Iran looms large over Arab 'coalition of the frightened' ",...
Authors: Dennis Sandole
Published Date: November 21, 2007
Abstract: Sir, Your report on the status of the negotiations regarding whether Kosovo will remain a part of Serbia or be awarded “conditional...
Authors: Michael Shank
Published Date: November 01, 2007
Published Date: September 25, 2007
Abstract: Sir, The article by William Wallis and Rebecca Bream, "Alarm over China's Congo deal" (September 19), draws attention to the need for...
Authors: Michael Shank
Published Date: September 12, 2007
Abstract: Sir, With reference to “Soft soap? Why the greening of Wal-Mart may hinder the way to a sustainable world” (September 10): it should be a...
Authors: Dennis Sandole
Published Date: August 16, 2007
Abstract: [Published, Financial Times, August 16, 2007]Sir, David Gardner's article "Lost in Iraq: the illusion of an American strategy" (August 10)...
Authors: Dennis Sandole
Published Date: June 26, 2007
Abstract: [Published, Financial Times, June 26, 2007]Sir, Without so much as saying it, Gideon Rachman ("Missed opportunities, Gaza and the spread of...
Authors: Dennis Sandole
Published Date: January 20, 2007
Abstract: Sir, Christopher Caldwell's provocative piece on "youth-bulge wars" ("Youth and war, a deadly duo", January 6/7), based on the...
Authors: Dennis Sandole
Published Date: November 14, 2006
Abstract: Sir, Against the background of discussion about Turkey's chances of accession to the European Union slipping away, Guler Sabanci's article ("Why...
Authors: Dennis Sandole
Published Date: September 28, 2005
Abstract: From Prof Dennis J. D. Sandole.Sir, Despite very real problems of implementation, recent developments in the six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear...
Authors: Dennis Sandole
Published Date: December 10, 2005
Authors: Dennis Sandole
Published Date: May 12, 2004
Authors: Dennis Sandole
Published Date: September 21, 2004
Authors: Dennis Sandole
Published Date: November 16, 2004
Authors: Dennis Sandole
Published Date: March 02, 2004
Authors: Dennis Sandole
Published Date: December 11, 2010
Abstract: Sir, Gideon Rachman’s insightful book reviews (“No, we can’t”, Life & Arts, December 4) all point in the same direction:...
Authors: Dennis Sandole
Published Date: February 05, 2011
Abstract: Sir, It is clear from Gillian Tett’s column (“Why soldiers and bankers must see the bigger picture”, January 29 ), that she is...
Published Date: March 02, 2011
Abstract: Serious concerns have been raised about internal disintegration and civil war were Muammer Gaddafi to fall. Marc Ginsberg, former US ambassador to...
Authors: Dennis Sandole
Published Date: August 15, 2011
Abstract: Sir, Given the urgent need to put out fires in British cities, both prime minister David Cameron and your editorial, “London’s week of...
Authors: Richard Rubenstein
Published Date: October 21, 2011
Abstract: Sir, Your editorial “America wakes to the din of inequity” (October 17) we believe is essentially correct. For the many, the American...
Authors: Dennis Sandole
Published Date: March 13, 2012
Abstract: Sir, If ever there was a clear-cut demonstration of the empirical validity of the core thesis of complexity theory – that everything is...
Authors: Michael Shank
Published Date: April 11, 2012
Abstract: Sir, Your editorial “Ms Rousseff Goes to Washington” (April 9), by implying illicitous cosiness between Brazil and Iran, incorrectly...
Authors: Dennis Sandole
Published Date: May 12, 2012
Abstract: Sir, After reading Clive Cookson’s review of Harvard professor Edward O. Wilson’s new tome, The Social Conquest of Earth, one may be...
Authors: Michael Shank
Published Date: May 21, 2012
Abstract: Exceprt: Sir, Edward Luce is spot on regarding Capitol Hill appraisal of partisanship pulling punches on solutions (“Why Washington...
Authors: Michael Shank
Published Date: August 04, 2012
Abstract: Sir, The real problem with the US gun debate is that polling questions are frequently framed as gun rights not as gun safety (“It is plain...
Authors: Dennis Sandole
Published Date: August 16, 2012
Abstract: Sir, John McClintock, in his compelling letter “Food for all – with shared sovereignty” (August 9), makes two important,...
Authors: Dennis Sandole
Published Date: October 10, 2012
Abstract: Sir, The progressively unyielding logic of unintended consequences seems to be rearing its head again. As western sanctions against Iran continue to...
Published Date: October 22, 2012
Abstract: Sir, With reference to “Undeclared and undiscussed” (Analysis, October 22): when it comes to drones, America must get its nose out of the...
Authors: Dennis Sandole
Published Date: November 21, 2012
Abstract: Sir, Your editorial “Island stalemate” (November 6), on the dispute between China and Japan over the sovereignty of the Diaoyu/Senkaku...
Authors: Dennis Sandole
Published Date: February 03, 2013
Abstract: Sir, British physicist Lewis F. Richardson, who helped pioneer the mathematical study of international conflict, especially the outbreak of the first...
Authors: Dennis Sandole
Published Date: March 25, 2013
Abstract: Sir, Departing from the tone of his previous narrative, alienating Israeli leadership and public alike, on his recent trip to Israel President...
Authors: Dennis Sandole
Published Date: May 19, 2013
Abstract: Sir, Whatever human nature is, it is certainly not proactive. Historically and cross-culturally, our species seems hard-wired to respond to danger...
Authors: Dennis Sandole
Published Date: June 23, 2013
Abstract: Sir, In addition to its core working hypothesis that everything is connected to everything else, complexity theory is characterised by the compelling...
Authors: Dennis Sandole
Published Date: September 10, 2013
Abstract: Sir, There are a limited number of people who can influence Bashar al-Assad and Barack Obama is clearly not one of them. Among those that can is the...
Authors: Dennis Sandole
Published Date: October 14, 2013
Abstract: Sir, In his exemplary review of three new books about the first world war, Tony Barber asks: “Could the immense tragedy of 1914-18, in which...
Authors: Dennis Sandole
Published Date: December 13, 2013
Abstract: Sir, One might very well ask how the world’s second and third largest economies have come to the brink of war over two and a half square miles...
Authors: Dennis Sandole
Published Date: January 30, 2014
Abstract: Sir, When Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe declared at Davos that his country's conflict with China over the Senkaku/...
Authors: Dennis Sandole
Published Date: September 10, 2014
Abstract: Sir, History is prologue. After reading Geoff Dyer’s dire assessment of the Ukraine crisis (“Obama faces dilemma as Putin holds all the...
Authors: Dennis Sandole
Published Date: December 03, 2014
Abstract: Sir, As Russia continues to escalate the crisis over Ukraine and its economy deteriorates further, some observers wonder if, through accident,...
Authors: Dennis Sandole
Published Date: April 17, 2015
Abstract: Sir, Thanks to Kathrin Hille’s report “What the Russians really think” (Life & Arts, April 11), we now have a clear idea about...
Authors: Dennis Sandole
Published Date: June 30, 2015
Abstract: Sir, The US and its Nato and EU allies can respond to Russia over the Ukraine crisis in at least two diametrically opposed ways: a zero-sum...
Authors: Dennis Sandole
Published Date: September 01, 2015
Abstract: Sir, "Europe is better than this," says François Heisbourg in his stinging indictment of Europe for the absence of vision, creativity and...
Authors: Dennis Sandole
Published Date: February 16, 2016
Abstract: Sir, Dmitri Trenin, director of the Carnegie Moscow Center, paints a grim picture of the Syrian war but embeds it in an inappropriate historical...
Authors: Dennis Sandole
Published Date: May 03, 2016
Abstract: Sir, Martin Wolf’s cogent contribution to the Brexit debate (“Myths and fantasies in the case for Brexit”, April 27) reminds us...
Authors: Dennis Sandole
Published Date: June 09, 2016
Abstract: Dennis Sandole offers a neuroscientific perspective on Gideon Rachman's opinion on the effect of immigration on the upcoming Brexit vote.Visit...
Authors: Dennis Sandole
Published Date: November 08, 2016
Abstract: Sir, John-Paul Marney (Letters, November 3), in response to Martin Wolf (Comment, November 2), frames global warming as a “non-problem”...
Authors: Dennis Sandole
Published Date: January 24, 2017
Abstract: Sir, in August 1914, European monarchs, diplomats, statesmen and generals blundered into a catastrophic war that no one wanted. Now, 103 years later...
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Authors: Susan H. Allen
Published Date: August 19, 2008
Abstract: From Dr Susan Allen Nan. Sir, An elderly woman in Gori, quoted in your report "Medvedev sets deadline for troop withdrawal" (FT.com August...
Authors: Dennis Sandole
Published Date: October 02, 2007
Abstract: Sir, Philip Stephens is absolutely right to highlight the importance of a reinvented transatlantic alliance, with a global perspective and Paris-...
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Authors: Susan H. Allen
Published Date: February 26, 2009
Abstract: Sir, Strobe Talbott (“A Russian ‘reset button’ based on inclusion”, February 24) neglects the activities that must be...