David Patrikarakos
Articles by David Patrikarakos
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Middle East
State within a state
- 09 January 2012
In Lebanon, after a year of turmoil that was the worst in a decade, it is Hezbollah — with the backing of Iran and Syria — that expects to prosper, leaving the whole of the Middle East even more unstable.
Africa
Letter from Congo
- 02 December 2010
- 4 comments
The Democratic Republic of Congo has been ravaged by war for nearly two decades. The largest UN peacekeeping mission in history based in the country is now being asked to leave.
Middle East
Iran, master of enrichment
- 18 February 2010
- 2 comments
Barack Obama hoped to launch a new era in relations with the Islamic Republic but, a year on, stalemate prevails. David Patrikarakos talks to Iran’s atomic ambassador and to critics in Israel and the US about what went wrong.
International Politics
How Iran went nuclear
- 18 June 2009
- 6 comments
David Patrikarakos tells the remarkable story of the Islamic Republic’s nuclear programme, which began as an expression of western modernity but has now hardened into a statement of reaction, isolation and rage
Books
Enter the dragon
- 16 April 2009
The Grand Turk: Sultan Mehmet II John Freely I B Tauris, 288pp, £18.99
