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		<title>Military Extortion as Coercive Diplomacy.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Buchanan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2026 21:41:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Source: Anonymous on X.com. The lethal theatre of the absurd that has been the Trump administration’s sabre rattling performances in the Central American basin over the last few months culminated with the military attack on Venezuela and the kidnapping of its president and his wife in the early hours of Saturday morning, Caracas time. The ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Preventive versus pre-emptive strikes.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Buchanan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2025 04:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Photo credit: Reuters. Conceptual clarity is important in any context but especially when it comes to international relations, foreign policy and the initiation of conflict. Recent events in the Middle East have shown once again how clarity in the use of words is often deliberately obfuscated in pursuit of political agendas. Unlike what is being ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The moment of friction.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Buchanan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2024 02:09:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In strategic studies &#8220;friction&#8221; is a term that it is used to describe the moment when military action encounters adversary resistance. &#8220;Friction&#8221; is one of four (along with an unofficial fifth) &#8220;F&#8217;s&#8221; in military strategy, which includes force (kinetic mass), fluidity (of manoeuvre), fog (of battle) as well as uncertainty (of outcomes, which is usually ]]></description>
		
		
		
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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 return to Big Wars.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Buchanan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Mar 2023 03:23:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[After the Cold War the consensus among Western military strategists was that the era of Big Wars, defined as peer conflict between large states with full spectrum military technologies, was at an end, at least for the foreseeable future. The strategic emphasis shifted to so-called &#8220;small wars&#8221; and low-intensity conflicts where asymmetric warfare would be ]]></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>Nuclear Strategy in a post-deterrence age.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Buchanan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2021 03:46:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Nuclear weapons are in the news again, this time because recent satellite photos reveal that China is constructing large nuclear missile silo &#8220;farms&#8221; in its Northwestern desert regions. This has occasioned alarm in Western security circles and re-focused attention on the concept of nuclear deterrence. This essay will address some of the basic concepts involved ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A hard rain is a&#8217;gonna fall.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Buchanan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2015 06:51:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Although 36th Parallel Assessments is loathe to prognosticate on fluid situations and current events,we have been thinking about how the conflict in Iraq has been going. Althoughwe do not believe that the Islamic State (IS) is anywhere close to being the global threat that it is portrayed to be in the West, we do believe ]]></description>
		
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		<title>Analytic Brief: Transitional Dilemmas.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Buchanan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Mar 2014 22:49:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Transitions from military-bureaucratic rule have been a salient characteristic of contemporary political dynamics. The desire to return to the barracks and seek legitimation push military-bureaucratic authoritarians towards holding elections as a means of devolving power to civilian authorities. They do so only under conditions that they largely control in order to pursue specific outcomes with ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Afghanistan: Beefing Up In Order To Leave</title>
		<link>https://36th-parallel.com/2012/08/23/afghanistan-beefing-up-in-order-to-leave/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Buchanan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2012 08:28:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Afghanistan: Beefing Up In Order To Leave Analysis &#8211; By Dr Paul G. Buchanan. In the wake of the most recent NZDF deaths in Bamiyan Province, the New Zealand Prime Minister has decided to accelerate the timetable for withdrawal of NZDF from the Bamiyan Provincial Reconstruction Team to April 2013. After that the PRT will ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Analysis: A different sort of BRIC (Australia in comparative perspective).</title>
		<link>https://36th-parallel.com/2012/08/14/analysis-a-different-sort-of-bric-australia-in-comparative-perspective/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Buchanan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2012 21:53:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Analysis: A different type of BRIC (Australia in comparative perspective). In this installment of the 36th Parallel series of analytic briefs, the focus is on Australia compared to other rising middle powers, including three of the BRICs: Brazil, Russia, India. Analysis &#8211; By Dr. Paul G. Buchanan. Although it may irk the okkers, Australia can ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Analytic Brief: Managing Policy Fade</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Buchanan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 22:02:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Analytic Brief: Managing Policy Fade* From time to time 36th Parallel Assessments offers analytic briefs on subjects of diplomatic, geopolitical and strategic interest. This week’s topic is policy fade. Analysis &#8211; By Paul G. Buchanan. Deployment of Fijian soldiers and police as UN peacekeepers after the 2006 military coup in that country is a good ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Fiji&#8217;s Military Regime Deploys More Personnel To UN Ops Than Australia, Canada, New Zealand Combined</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Selwyn Manning]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2012 00:41:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Fiji&#8217;s Military Regime Deploys More Personnel To UN Ops Than Australia, Canada, New Zealand Combined Dispatch/Forecast &#8211; by Selwyn Manning. Since the 2006 Fiji coup Commodore Voreqe (Frank) Bainimarama&#8217;s military-led government has remained fully engaged with the United Nations while incrementally increasing the number of troops and police it contributes to UN peacekeeping operations to ]]></description>
		
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		<title>Assessment: Partners But Not Allies &#8211; New Zealand and the US Sign The Washington Declaration</title>
		<link>https://36th-parallel.com/2012/06/27/assessment-brief-partners-allies-new-zealand-us-sign-the-washington-declaration/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Buchanan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2012 22:01:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Assessment: Partners But Not Allies &#8211; New Zealand and the US Sign The Washington Declaration Assessment/Analysis &#8211; By Dr Paul G. Buchanan. On June 20 New Zealand Defense Minister Jonathan Coleman and US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta signed the Washington Declaration, which specifies priority areas of cooperation between the militaries of both countries.The Washington Declaration ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Interview: 95bFM&#8217;s Simon Maude IVs Selwyn Manning On The Washington Declaration</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Selwyn Manning]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2012 07:51:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Interview: 95bFM&#8217;s Simon Maude IVs Selwyn Manning On New Zealand Signing the USA&#8217;s Washington Declaration Military Pact 95bFM The Wire Counter-Clockwise Bulletin &#8211; Recorded live on 21/06/12: Main Points &#8211; On Wednesday June 20, New Zealand&#8217;s Minister of Defence Jonathan Coleman met with the United States&#8217; secretary of defense Leon Panetta at the Pentagon in ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Interview: Selwyn Manning IVs Labour&#8217;s Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Phil Goff On NZ&#8217;s UN Security Council Bid</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Selwyn Manning]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2012 06:45:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Interview: Selwyn Manning IVs Labour&#8217;s Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Phil Goff On NZ&#8217;s UN Security Council Bid Triangle TV, LiveNews.co.nz: Important Points &#8211; New Zealand&#8217;s former Foreign Affairs Minister Phil Goff reveals that Australia&#8217;s former PM Kevin Rudd, abandoned a pledge agreed in 2004 between Canada, New Zealand and Australia, that New Zealand would be next ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Interview: 95bFM&#8217;s Simon Maude IVs Selwyn Manning On The Implications Of New Zealand Signing A NATO Security Pact</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Selwyn Manning]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2012 02:04:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Interview: 95bFM&#8217;s Simon Maude IVs Selwyn Manning On The Implications Of New Zealand Signing A NATO Security Pact 95bFM’s The Wire – Recorded live on 7/06/12: Selwyn Manning &#038; Simon Maude discuss the implications of New Zealand signing a NATO security pact titled Individual Partnership Cooperation Programme (IPCP). Background: This week New Zealand Prime Minister ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Interview: Glenn Williams IVs Paul Buchanan on New Zealand’s Security Council Bid</title>
		<link>https://36th-parallel.com/2012/06/06/interview-glenn-williams-ivs-paul-buchanan-on-new-zealands-security-council-bid/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Buchanan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2012 22:14:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Interview: Glenn Williams IVs Paul Buchanan on New Zealand’s Security Council Bid 36th-Parallel.com&#8217;s Dr Paul Buchanan joins Glenn Williams to discuss New Zealand&#8217;s bid to be come a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council. Will New Zealand be successful in its bid? Is the United States backing the campaign? If so, is this ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Status of Forces Report Part 2: Military Professionalism in the South Pacific.</title>
		<link>https://36th-parallel.com/2012/05/25/status-of-forces-report-part-2-military-professionalism-in-the-south-pacific/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Buchanan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 03:28:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Status of Forces Report Part 2: Military Professionalism in the South Pacific. 36th Parallel Assessment Series – By Paul G. Buchanan Introduction: In Part One of the the Status of Forces series, 36th Parallel Assessments offered an overview of typologies of military forces and civil-military relations. Designed as an introduction to the subject for readers ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Interview: Glenn Williams IVs Paul Buchanan on the South China Sea Territorial Tensions</title>
		<link>https://36th-parallel.com/2012/05/22/interview-glenn-williams-ivs-paul-buchanan-on-the-south-china-sea-territorial-tensions/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[36th Parallel]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 21:58:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Interview: Glenn Williams IVs Paul Buchanan on the South China Sea Territorial Tensions Analysis: Geopolitics and strategic balancing in the South China Sea. China has been asserting its territorial claims very aggressively and the United States and associated South East Asian countries have responded. Most recently China and the Philippines have clashed over the Scarborough ]]></description>
		
		
		
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