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  Disposable Land Sources and Collateral Murder. Understanding foreign policy over the Middle East through the lens of Orientalism and the Security Dilemma.   Liam Miles  - Liam.miles@mail.bcu.ac.uk  Eliska Duskova  Introduction   This Article will merge the Security Dilemma with Edward Said’s 1978 notion of Orientalism, as a method of explaining the rationale behind Western and Eastern Foreign Policy over the Middle East which as argued in this Article has seen the Middle East become a disposable land source for the advancement of Capitalism and Geopolitical Power and Control.    In its simplest form, the security dilemma is an embodiment of political science, which explains the dilemma between decisions taken by a state to strengthen its own security. These actions however, run the risk of provoking other or rival states to act, which in turn inevitably leads to a decrease in the original state of security for the original state, thus produ...

On the 11 th September 2001, two American airliners plummeted into the world trade centre towers, causing the towers to fall and over 3,000 lives to be lost. The series of events was described by Peter Dale Scott, author of ‘the road to 9/11, as being the worst case of homicide in all of America’s history. This statement cannot be argued against, there were over 3000 lives lost on the day of 9/11, which devastated families, communities and the world. However, there are many questions which can be raised as to the perpetrators of this act of terror, and what fuelled the attacks of 9/11 to take place in the first instance? Since the advent of 9/11, the world as we know it had drastically changed. The theory and practise of security both on a national and local level has arguably become tighter, we are now living in a society which favours suspicion, surveillance and monitoring of those who we believe pose a threat to our society and our way of life. These are usually presumptuous an...

The assassination of Qasem Soleimani- A critical analysis. On January 3 rd 2020, at around 1am local time to the region of Baghdad Iraq, Top Iranian general Qasem Soleimani was killed by a drone airstrike orchestrated by the US, but more namely Donald Trump. It can be argued that this offensive military decision has led to heightened insecurity and rising tensions between the USA and Iran. The USA who according to the CNBC, ( https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/21/trump-signs-738-billion-defense-bill.html ) stated that Trump had committed $738 billion dollars to defence spending for fiscal year 2020. Meanwhile Iran is expanding its nuclear weapons programme and is growing stronger in the Middle East. This blog aims to uncover the events from a historical and political perspective which led to the assassination and to explore why in my opinion, our Prime Minster Boris Johnson has been so slow to respond and what this could mean for the rest of us on the world stage, who can only ...