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Dan Plesch

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Dan Plesch is director of the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy at the School of Oriental and African Studies, a visiting senior research fellow at Keele University and a senior associate of the Foreign Policy Centre

October 2011

  • Occupy London protest at St Paul's

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    Occupy London is reviving St Paul's history of free speech

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    Dan Plesch: The Occupy protesters are defenders of a democratic heritage we must remember if we are to reclaim our freedoms

March 2010

  • Making the Middle East nuclear-free

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    Dan Plesch: With tensions building between Iran and Israel, how can we best achieve nuclear disarmament in the Middle East?

November 2009

  • What a mess our military has made

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    Dan Plesch: Just as in 1914-18, the handling of the Afghanistan conflict reflects a failure to understand modern society's impact on war

October 2009

  • General dismay as Dannatt takes sides

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    Dan Plesch: Conference season 09: For the ex-army chief to join the Conservatives damages the democratic convention that the military should stay out of politics

November 2008

  • The Alinsky legacy

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    Dan Plesch: Obama – the transition: The jibe about him being a 'community organiser' may come to haunt his opponents: Obama knows how to get things done

July 2008

  • Defending our dependency

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    Dan Plesch: Britain's plan to update Trident missiles with American warheads means we remain a nuclear client state of the US

September 2007

  • Disarming arguments

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    Dan Plesch: As nuclear weapons pose more of an international threat than ever, a conference at Soas this week debates a WMD free zone.

June 2007

  • Full profile

    Dan Plesch is an associate of the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy at the School of Oriental and African Studies, a visiting senior research fellow at Keele University and a senior associate of the Foreign Policy Centre

January 2007

  • In the zone

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    Dan Plesch: In the right conditions, it is possible to get otherwise warring parties in the Middle East to talk seriously about nuclear non-proliferation.

  • Next target Tehran

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    Dan Plesch: All the signs are that Bush is planning for a neocon-inspired military assault on Iran.

  • Punching above his weight

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    Dan Plesch: The prime minister's speech today failed to address one of the key points on Churchill and Roosevelt's checklist for peace: disarmament.

October 2006

  • North Korea's nuclear policy is not irrational at all

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    Dan Plesch:We are heading towards another pre-emptive war and Japanese nuclear weapons unless pressure for disarmament revives.

August 2006

March 2006

  • Blair is wrong

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    Dan Plesch: Does the prime minister not recall that the "evil empire" of Soviet Russia collapsed without a shot being fired.

  • Our schools need more teachers

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    Dan Plesch: We should let untrained graduates write off their student loans in exchange for a year or two of teaching.

  • In the shadow of the Bomb

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    Dan Plesch: Britain gets the worst of all worlds with the nuclear special relationship

October 2005

  • Are we going to war with Iran?

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    Dan Plesch evaluates the evidence pointing towards a new conflict in the Middle East.

August 2005

  • How Bush would gain from war with Iran

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    Dan Plesch: The US has the capability and reasons for an assault - and it is hard to see Britain uninvolved.

July 2005

  • How the UN won the war

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    Dan Plesch: The history told about the defeat of Nazism and the founding of the United Nations in the 1940s has become distorted.
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