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institutions & governmentEveryone likes the idea of fair, accountable and effective international institutions to cope with global economic, environment and security issues. But what form should they take? David Held and Paul Hirst argue for gradual reform within. George Monbiot advocates root and branch democratisation of the UN, and the creation of a new economic order. Other contributors identify key dilemmas and suggest creative solutions.
What kind of violence has the Sri Lankan state been committing against its Tamil civilian population?
A generation of neo-liberal policies feeds a serious democratic deficit inside the liberal state
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
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
The use of violence as an instrument of political liberation leads rather to failure and regression, says Martin Shaw.
A direct connection between the world's citizens and the world's governance needs to be created
The private and public behaviour of Italy’s prime minister is under intense scrutiny
The work of groups in Northern Ireland's "interface communities" is the test of lasting social progress
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
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
The inner-party competition to succeed Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao is already underway
What is happening to al-Qaida: is it still a threat to its enemies, and if so how grave?
The Mexican state's deep-rooted failure to protect citizens
eclipses even the health emergency
The noble principles on which modern France was founded are in trouble. But there is search for renewal
The post-Soviet collapse underlay the tragedy in eastern Uzbekistan on 13 May 2005 (archive)
The realities of Indian poverty are where arguments about global civil society are being tested
AfPak, Iraq, Lebanon, Gaza...how to break the pattern of "tragic accidents" that devour civilians?
The resignation of the Maoist prime minister Prachanda leaves Nepal's political crisis in the balance
A rich and forensic study of the "Bolivarian delirium" that fuels Hugo Chávez's vast ambition
A scholar-activist's lesson: help the world’s poor by learning to do more for less
The Maoist government and its rivals in a contested state are failing Nepalis
Pyongyang's complex internal politics are key to its military ventures (archive)
The global financial system has indebted the world and exhausted itself. It has to go
A fiery border crisis fuses old tensions and modern politics (archive)
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