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Scotlandâs foreign affairs, defence and security agenda needs to be more readily available to the public before any referendum AS a journalist who writes primarily about international affairs, I spend a lot of time perusing stories on global issues. Hence, on Tuesday, I came across an article in the online US-based Foreign Policy (FP) magazine. I wasn’t the only Scot who discovered it, and neither was I the only one who was taken aback by the arguments put forward by the author of the piece. For those unfamiliar with the article, it’s still available to read in full, but let me give you the gist of its premise for the benefit of what I want to say in response.