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Article: Answering the food security colonial conundrum?
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- Daily News Egypt (Egypt)
- Article date:
- November 10, 2009
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In international relations the security discourse is often monopolised by those with a myopic view of security as focusing disproportionately on military matters. Other factors, be they economic, social or environmental, whilst perhaps considered important, have a tendency of being relegated firmly to the second tier of concerns ahead of the simple, brutish realities of the military balance.
This kind of position is taken by those known as classical realists. However, even the staunchest realist might pause for thought if they were to hear that by some estimates the State of Qatar imports around 95 percent of its food from abroad. This is an exceedingly high ...