Atlantisch Perspectief 2010 No. 2
This issue contains English-language articles on
• The long shadow of Iraq
• State failure in Somalia
• Turkey, Baghdad and Baku
The Long Shadow of Iraq. The Davids and Chilcot Committees
The Davids report on the Dutch role in the Iraqi war has caused considerable upheaval in the Netherlands. Professor Giles Scott-Smith (Leiden University) argues that the Davids committee should rather have used the approach of the British Iraq committee (Chilcot) by hearing the protagonists in public.
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State Failure in Somalia: Causes of Instability and Insecurity
Somalia tops the list of failed states. How could things have gone so badly? Jan Tijmen Ninck Blok (working with a humanitarian organisation, Sudan) traces its root causes and discusses the country’s – and its people’s – future options.
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Turkey: Before the Way to Baghdad or Baku
Replying to Frank van den Heuvel (AP 8, 2009) research journalist Iclal Akcay considers it to be unfair to expect Turkey to abandon its EU aspirations and take on a leadership role among the Turkic peoples of Central Asia.
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