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7 March 2014, The Pakistan Observer

Ukraine division is now permanent

The Pakistan Observer published an article written by M D Nalapat, Director, School of Geopolitics at Manipal University and an external expert with Gateway House. The article highlights the conclusions drawn at a Gateway House discussion on the Ukraine crisis.

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Old habits die hard, but when continued, are often injurious to health. Through the 20th century, the member-states of NATO had a dominant position in the international order, a situation which still prevails in the UN, where the US and two small states, the UK and France, continue with their partners to set the agenda because of a coordinated policy implemented through a compliant Secretariat. It was an error to locate the headquarters of an international organisation in what was then the most powerful country in the world, and to locate almost every UN division headquarters in Europe, with not even the leavings going to the rest of the world.

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