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		<title>LINKS Director chairs EPC Policy Dialogue on Iran&#8217;s Nuclear stand-off and its regional role.</title>
		<link>http://links-dar.org/2013/05/10/links-director-chairs-epc-policy-dialogue-on-irans-nuclear-stand-off-and-its-region-role/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 14:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iran&#8217;s nuclear stand-off and its regional role was the theme of a policy dialogue organised by the European Policy Centre (EPC) in Brussels on 8 April 2013. LINKS Director, Dennis Sammut chaired a panel of experts which included Trita Parsi, President of the National Iranian Armenian Council; Savas Genc, Professor of International Relations at Fatih University in Istanbul; Walter Posch, Senior [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=links-dar.org&#038;blog=33592367&#038;post=1225&#038;subd=linksdar&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>LINKS Director at the IIEA in Dublin</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 13:39:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dennis Sammut, Director of LINKS Analysis was the keynote speaker at an event held on Wednesday, 8 May 2013 at the Institute for International and European Affairs in Dublin on the theme &#8220;Juggling Priorities: peace, modernisation and democratisation in the South Caucasus&#8221;. Listen to the podcast of the talk here<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=links-dar.org&#038;blog=33592367&#038;post=1215&#038;subd=linksdar&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Public Diplomacy: Georgian Folk Ensemble Ersioni entertains Kremlin.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 12:02:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Georgian Folk Ensemble &#8220;Ersioni&#8221; was earlier this month given a standing ovation when it performed in the Kremlin, a sure sign of the thaw in Georgian-Russian Relations. Since the election of Bidhzina Ivanishvili as prime Minister last October the two sides have moved to resolve some of the outstanding issues between them. However restoration [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=links-dar.org&#038;blog=33592367&#038;post=1198&#038;subd=linksdar&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>“Re: Orient”  &#8211;  Sharjah Exhibition explores the limits of political and social boundaries, past and present.</title>
		<link>http://links-dar.org/2013/03/18/re-orient-sharjah-exhibition-explores-the-limits-of-political-and-social-boundaries-past-and-present/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 08:54:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dennis Sammut has been to Sharjah for the opening of the exhibition Re: Orient, an on-going political and social conversation through art. The United Arab Emirates is not exactly a hotbed of political intrigue. Despite the fact that several dozen people are currently on trial for anti-State activities, most citizens prefer to concentrate their efforts on business [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=links-dar.org&#038;blog=33592367&#038;post=1190&#038;subd=linksdar&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Azerbaijan at the crossroads. Unusually frank and open discussion in Brussels on EU-Azerbaijan relations and the way forward.</title>
		<link>http://links-dar.org/2013/03/08/azerbaijan-at-the-crossroads-unusually-frank-and-open-discussion-in-brussels-on-eu-azerbaijan-relations-and-the-way-forward/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2013 12:26:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Officials and experts discuss problems in EU-Azerbaijan relations and the way forward at an unusually frank and open discussion in Brussels. The European Policy Centre in Brussels and the SAM, the Strategic Studies centre under the Presidential Administration in Azerbaijan hosted a round table discussion in Brussels on Tuesday, 4 March 2013 with the theme [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=links-dar.org&#038;blog=33592367&#038;post=1207&#038;subd=linksdar&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>COMMONSPACE.EU: news, analysis and comments on events in and around the Caucasus Region. Updated Daily.</title>
		<link>http://links-dar.org/2013/03/01/commonspace-eu-news-analysis-and-comments-on-events-in-and-around-the-caucasus-region-updated-daily/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 11:25:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Commonspace.eu is a collaborative project between LINKS and partners in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia, with particular emphasis on developments related to the conflicts and conflict resolution processes in the Caucasus Region. Our partners are signatories to a voluntary code of conduct aimed at improving standards of reporting and developing mutual respect whilst dealing with topics [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=links-dar.org&#038;blog=33592367&#038;post=1065&#038;subd=linksdar&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Change is in the air in the South Caucasus, and not all of it is planned.</title>
		<link>http://links-dar.org/2013/02/21/change-is-in-the-air-in-the-south-caucasus-and-not-all-of-it-is-planned/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 19:15:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The South Caucasus  is changing in multiple ways. Some of these changes are planned, others are more spontaneous&#8221;, said LINKS Director Dennis Sammut when answering questions put to him by the Azerbaijani news portal news.az. This is the full text of the interview: Can we expect any significant changes in the foreign policy of Armenia [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=links-dar.org&#038;blog=33592367&#038;post=1184&#038;subd=linksdar&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Democratisation, modernisation and globalisation &#8211; The EU and the hard tasks facing the three South Caucasus nations&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://links-dar.org/2013/02/15/democratisation-modernisation-and-globalisation-the-eu-and-the-hard-tasks-facing-the-three-south-caucasus-nations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 09:33:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The European Policy Centre, a leading Brussels think-tank, has just published a policy brief prepared by LINKS Director, Dennis Sammut. Entitled &#8220;Democratisation, modernisation and globalisation &#8211; The EU and the hard tasks facing the three South Caucasus nations&#8221;, the paper looks at shortcomings that need to be addressed by Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia as they [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=links-dar.org&#038;blog=33592367&#038;post=1177&#038;subd=linksdar&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Largest Conference on Yemen in Europe in two decades focuses on future challenges.</title>
		<link>http://links-dar.org/2013/01/19/largest-conference-on-yemen-in-europe-in-two-decades-focuses-on-future-challenges/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2013 15:47:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Conference entitled Yemen: Challenges for the future was held at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) of the University of London on 11-12 January 2013. This was an impressive gathering with over two hundred participants, including a large contingent who flew from Yemen for the occasion, academics from all over Europe, as [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=links-dar.org&#038;blog=33592367&#038;post=1147&#038;subd=linksdar&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Football helps process of state-building in UAE.</title>
		<link>http://links-dar.org/2013/01/19/football-helps-process-of-state-building-in-uae/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2013 13:56:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The National football team of the United Arab Emirates have won this year&#8217;s Gulf Cup. An elated nation cheered their team on to victory. In this op-ed Dennis Sammut discusses why football is helping the process of state building in the United Arab Emirates. The success of the National Football team of the United Arab [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=links-dar.org&#038;blog=33592367&#038;post=1156&#038;subd=linksdar&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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