Alastair Crooke

The paradigmatic blow given by Afghanistan to the Western vision, arrives at a historic moment of inflection: […]

What we see is an attempt to impose an idealised technical managerialism onto a complex, rather than […]

It is pretty obvious that in the wake of the Afghan debacle, there is little appetite in […]

Beijing has resolved that subjugation (opium or gaming addiction) will never be allowed to happen again The […]

Nation-building in Afghanistan arrived in 2001. Western interventions into the old Eastern bloc in the 1980s and […]

America is suffering a profound psychological reaction to its humiliation in Kabul. Clearly, the principal casualty of […]

Western intelligence agencies were so consumed with ‘counter-terrorism’ that they failed to see the new dynamics at […]

China is more determined to shape the region than many analysts realise A huge geo-political event has […]

Alistair Crooke, the former British diplomat and founder and director of the Conflicts Forum, let us embark […]

The exclusionary ideology is being turned-in upon itself. Turned-in, within western societies, and not just outwards, towards […]

Raisi’s discourse is a particular challenge to the West, grounded, as it is, in the values of […]

If Republicans and Democrats talk as though they are living in different realities – it is because […]