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By Ollie Ryan Tucker A new report urging foreign policy reform seems more interested in hand-wringing about colonialism than facing up to the reality of great power competition, says Ollie Ryan Tucker Every diagnosis of foreign policy today starts with the acknowledgement that great power competition is back on the agenda. We live in ‘unprecedented times’, in a ‘dangerous world’, yet so few of the proffered curatives confront that reality. Instead, it is used as the justification for a less assertive foreign policy, which often starts from poorly reasoned first principles. The latest of these …

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