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Give Colombia's Long-Overdue Peace a Chance

21 May 2013 Security Watch

Continued dissatisfaction with the Colombian peace process may impact the final outcome of next year's presidential elections. The stumbling talks may also come to represent yet another missed opportunity to end decades of conflict between the state and FARC rebels, or so warns Robert Valencia. More on «Give Colombia's Long-Overdue Peace a Chance»

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Europe's Defense Double Dutch

20 May 2013 Security Watch

Julian Lindley-French doesn’t believe that shrinking European defense budgets will spur ever-closer defense cooperation. In fact, this erroneous notion not only jeopardizes NATO’s vision of Smart Defense, it also means that Europe’s leading armed forces will have a little bit of everything but not much of anything. More on «Europe's Defense Double Dutch»

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Australia and Air-Sea Battle

17 May 2013 Security Watch

The US’s Air-Sea Battle concept now seems to be the way Washington plans to counter China’s ‘anti-access/area denial’ challenge. Today, Ben Schreer considers the role that Australia might play in operationalizing this concept and how it might impact Canberra’s relations with Beijing. More on «Australia and Air-Sea Battle»