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The insecurity and violence of an ancient Arab land are creating a political implosion
What kind of country is Britain becoming? For the answer, watch two key military choices
What kind of violence has the Sri Lankan state been committing against its Tamil civilian population?
The construction of a huge military facility in Jordan is a triumph of old thinking over new
A generation of neo-liberal policies feeds a serious democratic deficit inside the liberal state
The Islamic thinker's "Radical Reform" reveals the skill and care that informs his search for influence
A human-rights lens on corporate power as a path to a fairer world
The UN has been slow in reacting to the global economic crisis. But it could yet play a key role
A boom in hi-tech military spending in time of recession carves the world in two
The secret empire of violation that shadowed the "war on terror" must be held to account
France's Euro vote reveals a rearmed right, lost left, and broken centre. But there's a green gleam
The route to global climate-change action lies through creative and tough consensus-building
After Barack Obama's Cairo speech, al-Qaida seeks advice from the famous SWISH consultancy
The use of violence as an instrument of political liberation leads rather to failure and regression, says Martin Shaw.
Iran’s election race reaches its climax at a delicate moment for this post-revolutionary state
The private and public behaviour of Italy’s prime minister is under intense scrutiny
The global opportunity to reduce the nuclear danger may be greater than North Korea’s test implies
The work of groups in Northern Ireland's "interface communities" is the test of lasting social progress
The crisis of 1989 in Beijing was for China’s elite a brutal lesson in long-term political control
How the elections that broke communist power in Poland in time also consumed their victors
The fallout of a third term for Colombia’s president would reach from Bogotá to Washington
From Swat to Lahore, escalating violence is inflicting a terrible toll on Pakistan's poor and displaced
The problems of the world's poor are at their heart an issue of human rights. This sets a test for the world's powerful
The United States’s military-spending plans are struggling to match the wars it is engaged in
The patient strategy of President Lula is improving Brazilians' lives and deepening their democracy
The needs of the post-war period include accountability and redress for past violations
Lebanon’s sectarian, geopolitical and ideological fissures infuse its current election campaign
Washington's problems in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq owe much to George W Bush's dreadful legacy
Cambodia's H1N1 precaution is a case-study in the local mediation of a global epidemic
The inner-party competition to succeed Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao is already underway
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