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Afghanistan's time of troubles
My in-depth interview with Lyse Doucet for Engelsberg Ideas
 • Jack Dickens
What the Houthis really want
My in-depth interview with Elisabeth Kendall for Engelsberg Ideas.
 • Jack Dickens
The Druze, no friends but the mountains
Syria’s Druze have often been caught between their commitment to national independence and a wariness of Sunni domination.
 • Jack Dickens
Donald Trump’s nuclear nightmares
My in-depth interview with Fiona Hill for Engelsberg Ideas.
 • Jack Dickens
How the Young Turks became tyrants
The course of a late-Ottoman revolution is a warning that liberators can easily turn into tyrants, and that new political dawns can be deceptive.
 • Jack Dickens
Is Europe ready for a NATO without America?
Today’s Paris summit was a clear attempt to bring European strategic interests back into the picture on Ukraine.
 • Jack Dickens
Black Sea ceasefire is a potential win for Putin
A ceasefire in the Black Sea gives Russia’s embattled naval forces space to breathe, and allows Putin to continue changing facts on the ground in Kursk…
 • Jack Dickens
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The Dickens Dispatch
Journalist and historian Jack Dickens writes about geopolitics, empires and the Middle East - using the past to understand the present.
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