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A different look at Islam

As Diplomat is published only four times a year, I have a devil of a time rooting out books that haven’t already been reviewed everywhere

Wars both hot and cold

As soon as the Second World War was over, the French began fighting a decade-long hit-and-run guerrilla conflict against left-wing nationalists in Vietnam, Cambodia and

The logo of a civilisation

As I write this, Greece remains the poor boy of the European Union and democracy teeters drunkenly in various places around the world. These facts

Slaying the Dragon Lady

The “Dragon Lady” was the name of a sexy Asian “villainess” in Terry and the Pirates, a popular newspaper comic strip of the 1930s, 1940s

Nitty-gritty cities

Odd how certain dead film stars are often the subject of popular cults. Among those with the most enduring posthumous lives is the Hollywood femme

Some diplomatic intrigues

An error in Steven Spielberg’s film, Lincoln stirred up a little controversy last year. The movie, as most everyone now knows, depicts Abraham Lincoln’s manoeuvring

Summer reading: From Beverley Baxter to Joseph Kennedy

I’m not sure whether this was a joke or an urban legend, but there was supposedly a period in the 1950s when some members of

Opium as product and policy

Thomas Dormandy, a retired British pathologist who knows whereof he speaks, has a great deal to tell us about opium as well as morphine and

Islands at the end of the civilized world

  The idea of a prison located on an almost inaccessible island is supposed to strike special fear in people being kept there against their