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How dictators use refugees

This is the beginning of a long essay published this month in Liberties, a quarterly journal of culture and politics.

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On September 4 2014, the top brass of the Hellenic Coast Guard held a rare press conference at their Piraeus headquarters. Commodore Yiannis Karageorgopoulos presented a series of slides showing the Aegean and Ionian Seas, plus a portion of the east Mediterranean south of Crete, which comprise the coastguard’s vast jurisdiction. Against this he flas…

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