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Music, Literature, the Visual Arts, Landscape, Current Affairs, Dorset, Greece. Global scope. RECENT BOOKS: WORDS ON THE TABLE (207 Poems), READING THE SIGNS (111 Poems), THIS SPINNING WORLD (43 stories). See Amazon author page for more. ResearchGate profile: www.researchgate.net/profile/Jim_Potts2 YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/MrHighway49/videos

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Tuesday, 18 November 2014

A New Cold War or Iron Curtain? How President Putin Sees It



A new book in Swedish  "Crimea belongs to us: the empire's return"

Update March 2016, Black Sea Strategy (pdf), CEPA

Svenska Dagbladet - Zebulon Carlander: Ryssland tar över Svarta havet

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President Putin Interview, German TV

How others see it

Chancellor Merkel (Deutsche Welle)

Euronews

Bloomberg (on economic issues)

Webcam spying? (Mail Online)

Webcam spying (Telegraph)

Hilary Clinton (in March)

No new Iron Curtain (Putin)

How Bo Diddley saw it
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Author of Words on the Table (207 poems); This Spinning World (45 Stories), Colenso Books; Reading the Signs (environmental poems); Corfu Blues (poems and essays); The Ionian Islands and Epirus, A Cultural History (Signal Books, Oxford, and OUP, USA, 2010); co-editor of Swedish Reflections, from Beowulf to Bergman; Dorset Voices (Roving Press, April 2012). Chapter in Greece and Britain Since 1945 (2010). Two chapters in The Ionian Islands: Aspects of their History and Culture, ed. Anthony Hirst and Patrick Sammon, Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 3) Grockles and Locals: Mutual Perceptions and the Reciprocal Gaze, A Corfu Case Study (40 page chapter for US book Tourism and Identity (Transaction Publishers, ed Gabriel Ricci, 2015). NB - The author of Corfu Blues is not responsible for the content of links or external sites.
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