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		<title>Authoritarian Realism.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Buchanan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Oct 2023 02:47:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In International relations, realism refers to the view that States have interests and use relative power capabilities to pursue those interests in an anarchic world order lacking a superordinate power or Leviathan (that is, a condition that Hobbes referred to as the “state of nature’). Conversely, idealism refers to the better angels and perfectibility of ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The PRC&#8217;s Two Level Game.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Buchanan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jun 2022 00:37:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Coming on the heels of the recently signed Solomon Islands-PRC bilateral economic and security agreement, the whirlwind tour of the Southwestern Pacific undertaken by PRC Foreign Minister Wang Yi has generated much concern in Canberra, Washington DC and Wellington as well as in other Western capitals. Wang and the PRC delegation came to the Southwestern ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Paul Buchanan &#8211; Radio NZ Dispatch: Beware the false narrative linking Christchurch to Sri Lanka bombings</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Buchanan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2019 09:18:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Opinion &#8211; ISIS and a junior defence minister in the Sri Lankan government have claimed the terrorist attacks on churches and hotels were a response to the attack on mosques in Christchurch on 15 March. The claims need to be treated with scepticism. Here&#8217;s why. Having been defeated on the battlefields of the Levant, ISIS now ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Was Sri Lanka attack retaliation? &#8211; Analysis</title>
		<link>https://36th-parallel.com/2019/04/24/was-sri-lanka-attack-retaliation-analysis/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[36th Parallel]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2019 09:31:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has made a statement responding to the suggestion that the Sri Lanka bombings were retaliation for the Christchurch attacks. &#8220;We have seen reports of the statement from the Sri Lankan Minister of state for defence, alleging a link between the the Easter Sunday terrorist attack and the March 15 attack in ]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Paul Buchanan – Radio NZ Dispatch: Attacks &#8220;very unlikely&#8221; retaliation &#8211; security expert</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[36th Parallel]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2019 09:26:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Security expert Paul Buchanan said he thought the two attacks were &#8220;very unlikely&#8221; to be linked. &#8220;I would take these claims with a very healthy dose of scepticism, and the reason for that is both ISIS and the Sri Lankan government have their own reasons to deflect from the local nature of the attack. ISIS ]]></description>
		
		
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