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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...

When I first discovered that notorious serial killer Ian Brady (the Moors Murderer) had written a book from his prison cell offering an insight into the phenomenon of serial killing and its analysis, I thought this can offer a fresh insight into the mind, motive and methodology of a serial killer, through the lens of a serial killer himself. The book within itself holds so much room for critical analysis and interpretation, it is incredibly challenging to pinpoint one particular finding. This blog aims to explore in smaller parts, numerous findings throughout the book- “Gates of Janus”. The book is broken into three significant chapters. The first chapter explores the contextualisation and social construction of serial murder with ties to morality, hedonistic nihilism and the social constriction of murder, and the ways in which the phenomenon of murder has been commodified and romanticised, this is explored through the lens of the media, and produces a cultural criminological narrati...