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		<title>Why Libya Matters</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2015 12:45:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[June 1, 2015  Zachary Fillingham Libya is quietly slipping into chaos while the more established debacles of Iraq and Syria dominate in Western headlines and corridors of power. The more grave and consequential the Libyan civil war becomes, the less attention is paid to it. It’s almost as if the country has already been relegated [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Two Overlooked Aspects Of Those Leaks About NSA Spying On French Presidents</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2015 10:44:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[from the reasons-to-be-cheerful dept There&#8217;s been quite a lot of excitement in the press about the latest leaks that the NSA has been spying on not just one French President, but (at least) three of them. As Mike pointed out, this isn&#8217;t such a big deal, because it is precisely the kind of thing that [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Tunisia Shooting Death Toll Rises to 40 After Belgian Tourist Dies</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2015 10:12:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[© AFP 2015/ FETHI BELAID Africa 09:33 27.06.2015(updated 10:39 27.06.2015) Get short URL A gunman disguised as a tourist opened fire on a beach near the Tunisian resort town of Sousse on Friday. © AP Photo/ Hassene Dridi Majority of Tunisia Shooting Victims Britons – Tunisia’s Prime Minister BRUSSELS (Sputnik) — A female Belgian tourist died [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Iran seen from Beijing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2015 19:56:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Author: Kevjn Lim Source: Think tank Published: 16 June 2015 China views Iran as a central element in its much-touted Silk Road Economic Belt, which aims to extend Beijing’s influence overland through Central Asia to the Persian Gulf and Europe. Also available in Arabic. Although China has long been Iran’s largest oil customer, international sanctions [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Terrorism And the Pragmatics Of Transnational Intervention</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2015 19:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[ This paper looks at one of the most lethal terrorist groups in the world &#8211; the Boko Haram and the pragmatics of regional intervention or collaboration to deal with the threat. Considering the humanitarian concerns the crises had generated, the group&#8217;s alleged links to Al-Qaida in the Maghreb (AQIM) and Islamic State (IS) and the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Big Brother is watching EU</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2015 11:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[U.S. Embassy at focus of NSA Germany Spy scandal. Getty As the US moves towards privacy reform, Europe enacts sweeping new spying powers. By Bryan Cunningham  20/5/15, 5:30 AM CET  Updated 20/5/15, 11:07 AM CET A strange — and strangely unnoticed — trend is emerging in the evolving global response to massive 2013 leaks about [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>“I’m down for a Jihad”: How 100 Years of Gang Research Can Inform the Study of Terrorism, Radicalization and Extremism</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2015 13:05:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Vol 9, No 1 (2015) &#62; Decker  by Scott H. Decker and David C. Pyrooz Abstract [1] One of the difficult tasks in the social sciences is integrative, interdisciplinary work. There are many commonalities across the social sciences in method, theory, and policy. The study of gangs has a tradition in the U.S. that dates [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Intelligence: Sex And Money Gets It Done</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2015 10:44:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[View image &#124; gettyimages.com March 16, 2015: Indian police recently arrested an employee (a cameraman) for the government defense research organization (DRDO) and accused the man of spying for Pakistan. The suspect was accused of passing on information about missile research and tests and doing so for up to ten months. The suspect admitted that [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Who Are Yemen&#8217;s Houthis?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2015 11:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Interviewee: April Longley Alley, Senior Analyst, International Crisis Group Interviewer: Zachary Laub, Online Writer/Editor February 25, 2015 The seizure of power in Yemen by an armed Shia Muslim movement known as the Houthis has thrown the country into disarray and provoked concerns about further Middle East instability. &#8220;The Houthis are victims of their own success,&#8221; [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>From the Welfare State to the Caliphate</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2015 08:35:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[How a Swedish suburb became a breeding ground for foreign fighters streaming into Syria and Iraq. By Magnus Ranstorp, Linus Gustafsson, Peder Hyllengre February 23, 2015 GOTHENBURG, Sweden — When he was 3 years old, Ahmed arrived in southern Sweden from Iraq, together with his older brother and parents. The family settled in one of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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