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Author: Dean Godson

Dean Godson is a Research Director on security issues at Policy Exchange, Contributing Editor of Prospect Magazine, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Ulster.
Lessons from Northern Ireland for the Arab-Israeli Conflict

Lessons from Northern Ireland for the Arab-Israeli Conflict

October 1, 2004 | Dean Godson
While there are obvious limitations in any analogy between the situation in Northern Ireland and the Israeli-Palestinian dispute, many in the British government and military believe there is such an analogy. As a consequence of the Troubles of the last 30 years, Northern Ireland has become the defining national security experience for that generation of people who now have stewardship for British policy.