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Essays, policy papers and longer-form writing by Brian Brivati on history, international politics, conflict, human rights and democratic transition.

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Recent writing

• The Waiting RoomJuly 22, 2026
• Learning from Precedent: Could an International Transitional Authority work for the State of PalestineOctober 14, 2025
• Comparative Sanctions RegimesSeptember 18, 2025
• UK Policy on IsraelSeptember 2, 2025
• Dominos Fall on the road to oblivionNovember 25, 2024
• Ukraine Revisited: Genocide in Our MidstOctober 19, 2024
• The case of Ukraine: When does Genocide End? – Originally published in Ukraine Week in 2011October 9, 2024
• Armenia: The Crossroads Power? Reflections on the Inaugural Yerevan Dialogue, 9-11 September 2024September 11, 2024
• Bevin’s Progressive Realism: Beyond the Powell Paradigm in Russia’s War on UkraineJuly 18, 2024
• The Labour government and the Armenian “Crossroads of Peace” InitiativeJuly 12, 2024
• Why the Tory national service plan gets both defence and community wrong.May 31, 2024
• Time for Labour to embrace her inner Ernie BevinMay 31, 2024
• Armenia, Ukraine and Genocide in our MidstDecember 8, 2023
• Cultural Genocide against Christian sites in Nagorno-KarabakhDecember 8, 2023
• Issues in Post-War Democratic Transition in UkraineOctober 16, 2023
• WHITE PAPER: Empowering communities: A Tripartite Approach to Participaroty Recovery in UkraineOctober 12, 2023
• Building Consensus:practical proposals for a socially cohesive reconstruction of Ukraine East Europe Foundation and Agency for Recovery and DevelopmentOctober 12, 2023
• Losing AfghanistanMay 10, 2023
• The Festival Of Ukraine: ToolkitApril 25, 2023
• Supporting the Survivors of Sexual Violence in Iraq Project – Newsreel by Alhurra IraqMay 25, 2022
• Losing Afghanistan: Interview on Talk Radio EuropeFebruary 23, 2022
• Losing Afghanistan: The Fall of Kabul and the End of Western InterventionJanuary 18, 2022
• Draft Articles for the Law on Volunteering in IraqJanuary 18, 2022
• Draft Action plan for the implementation of the national youth volunteering strategy in the Kurdish Region of IraqJanuary 18, 2022
• Kurdish and Arabic Translations of White Paper on Volunteerism Law in IraqJanuary 18, 2022
• Volunteerism Law in Iraq: A White PaperJanuary 18, 2022
• Stasis: talk to the UCU GLOBAL: Human in post-COVID world – December 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhz7Qz-_ry8May 8, 2021
• Seeing like a StateFebruary 24, 2021
• The Secret Garden: Part 6 of the Stasis of Modern PurgatoryDecember 11, 2020
• “Someone must have been telling lies about Joseph K”: Part 5 of The Stasis of Modern PurgatoryNovember 25, 2020
• Render unto Caesar or perish? Part 4: The stasis of modern purgatoryNovember 17, 2020
• The Exile as Nationalist? The stasis of the Golden Cage. Part 3: The Stasis of Modern PurgatoryNovember 10, 2020
• Twitter: The inner sanctum of Trump’s mendacity. Part 2 of the Stasis of Modern PurgatoryOctober 30, 2020
• The Stasis of Modern Purgatory. Part 1October 29, 2020
• Government by narcissismMay 26, 2020
• David Kynaston on VE DayMay 8, 2020
• CovidSpring X: The Covid SummerMay 1, 2020
• Covidspring IX: The Ties that BindApril 27, 2020
• Covidspring VIII: The Age of Larry DavidApril 27, 2020
• The signs of the CovidspringApril 22, 2020
• Covidspring VII: I’ll know and be with youApril 20, 2020
• Covidspring VI: What has been taken awayApril 18, 2020
• Covidspring V: A moment for positive political imaginationApril 9, 2020
• Covidspring IV: The Cost of the CovidSpringApril 9, 2020
• Covidspring III: Hypothecate Now!April 4, 2020
• Covidspring II: It takes a VirusApril 3, 2020
• Covidspring I: After the State of ExceptionApril 2, 2020
• Bridging the Cyber Skills Gap in AfricaMarch 31, 2020
• TOC: Maintaining Gender gains in YemenMarch 9, 2020
• The uniqueness of the holocaust?  January 17, 2020

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