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The Great War on Terror: Feeding the Beast
Arab Digest - September 13, 2021
Arab Digest editor William Law is joined by Dr. Andreas Krieg, a lecturer at the School of Security Studies at King’s College London.
They examine what the West’s “war on terror” has really achieved in the Middle East and North Africa: a reinforcement of authoritarian regimes, the fueling of brutal insurgencies, the silencing of protest and the crushing of civil society.
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