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The Contested Landscape Of Jerusalem

The Review

John Matthew Barlow discusses University of Tel Aviv archeologist Raphael Greenberg's new research on the dig at Wadi Hilweh, and its political and cultural ramifications for Israelis and Palestinians.

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  • Contested Jerusalem

    Research

    John Matthew Barlow discusses University of Tel Aviv archeologist Raphael Greenberg's new research on the dig at Wadi Hilweh, and its political and cultural ramifications for Israelis and Palestinians.

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  • The Occidental Guerrilla

    Book Review

    Michael A. Innes reviews David Kilcullen's new book The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One. A timely and astute synthesis of experience, research and analysis, the author pinpoints the political shear between minority existential threats to US interests and the majority of the world's locally invested guerrillas who just want to be left alone.

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  • Architecture & Biopolitics

    Interview

    Berlin-based writer Daniel Miller's October 2008 interview with Swedish philosopher and SITE Magazine Editor-In-Chief Sven-Olov Wallenstein, on his new book Biopolitics and the Emergence of Modern Architecture (Princeton Architectural Press, 2009).

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  • Wired For War

    Symposium

    The second symposium in CTlab's 2009 series, focused on Peter Singer's new book, Wired For War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century (Penguin Press: 2009), ran from 30 March to 2 April. Singer and half a dozen scholars from the U.S., Canada, the U.K., and Austria debated the use and ethics of robots in war.

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  • The Limits Of "Security"

    Current Intelligence

    Kenneth Anderson explores the link between international financial instability and global security in response to Judy Shelton's recent Wall Street Journal op-ed.

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Wednesday
17Jun

The Contested Landscape of Jerusalem

| —Author : AuthorJohn Matthew Barlow

To call Jerusalem a disputed location would be an understatement.  The Temple Mount might be the most hotly contested piece of real estate on the planet, sacred as it is to the three major western religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Archaeologists believe that there has been a city on the site of Jerusalem since about 2600 BCE, meaning that for nearly 5000 years, various groups of people have fought over the landscape: Judeans, Israelites, Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, Seleucids, Jews, Romans, Christians, Europeans, Muslims, imperialists, occupiers, resisters.

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Monday
15Jun

The impotence of Obama

| —Author : AuthorEric Randolph

Few analysts really held up much hope that the rhetoric of change that accompanied Obama’s rise to power would translate into anything truly substantial on the international stage. The big two elections of the past week – in Lebanon and Iran – have underlined the fact that the accession of a new president has left the Middle East largely unfazed. The harsh reality is that the US has much more capacity to create problems than it does to foster change.

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Sunday
14Jun

Public Service Announcement: New CTlab RSS Feeds

| —Author : AuthorMike Innes

A quick note to our regular readers... a couple of weeks ago, we initiated a new blog strategy, which involved implementing several new blog modules on the website. The Review will remain active, but it'll be limited to less frequent long form reviews of books, events, and research. It's open to submissions, and will include the occasional extra feature (like interviews). We're also looking into partnering with ResearchBlogging.org, an important project that links peer reviewed research with serious blogging on it.

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—Filed on : DateJun 14, 2009 at 16:45
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Wednesday
10Jun

Peace as an Advertising Campaign: John Lennon & Yoko Ono

| —Author : AuthorJohn Matthew Barlow

Event Review: Imagine: The Peace Ballad of John & Yoko At the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, 2 April-21 June 2009

Forty years ago this month, John Lennon and Yoko Ono held their bed-in for peace in Room 1742 of the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montréal.  The first bed-in had been held at the Amsterdam Hilton in late March 1969, as part of their honeymoon (and immortalised in the song “The Ballad of John & Yoko” by the Beatles).  The second bed-in had been scheduled for New York City, but Lennon couldn’t get into the country due to a 1968 drug conviction.  So the event was moved to the Bahamas, a location that turned out to be too hot.  So Montréal was the third, and winning, choice.  Montréal was located close enough to the US to garner the media attention of the Americans.

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Friday
05Jun

China’s pointless fear of political change

| —Author : AuthorEric Randolph

This week at the Frontline Club, Kate Adie, the veteran BBC war reporter, gave an impassioned denunciation of China’s human rights record with all the vigour and righteous anger that made her such a requisite part of the foreground to scenes of conflict throughout the 1980s and 1990s. That’s been a fairly standard view this week given the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre, and as she elucidated the “staggering” levels of political repression that continue to encompass China, what struck

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