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Israel has reached a landmark anniversary. But the ideological project underpinning the state's six decades of existence has brought the country to a strategic impasse, says Avi Shlaim
Washington's problems in Iraq and Afghanistan are leading it to refocus its military attentions on Tehran
The Chinese netizens mobilising against western media distortions should also look in the mirror
What does the new Russian president want, and does he have the scope to make the job his own?
Judith Herrin unearths the roots of the "cosmopolitan" and finds a vital source for understanding the globalised present
Beijing’s tense months of crisis may in retrospect come to seem the product of a masterly public-relations campaign, says Kerry Brown.
A devastating cyclone alters the political outlook days before the junta's constitutional poll
German collective memory is in overdrive. But the most valuable legacy of the protest years is being forgotten
What will the world be like in 2020? Here are two scenarios, in the author's 350th openDemocracy column since September 2001
The Maoist victory in Nepal took India by surprise. But New Delhi shares responsibility for this outcome
A question to Martin Wolf and Paul Collier on the world's food crisis: can we all be both vegetarian and libertarian?
South Africa's shifting attitude towards Zimbabwe may have decisive effects in both countries
A many-sided argument over autonomy for Bolivia's eastern region is coming to a climax
Vietnam’s official memory has no place for Hoang Minh Chinh, an honourable critic who embraced democracy
Rwanda’s people, refusing to be trapped in or defined by the 1994 genocide, write a new chapter in their history
Show me some ID, so I can kill you. Too bad if you're the wrong guy
Today's food crisis echoes the early 1970s'. But global finance and climate change make it new
The political and legal crisis in Turkey highlights a vital European interest
The fortieth anniversary of the student revolt traps the French in the cunning of history
Kathmandu's election surprise sets a critical challenge for the new Maoist government
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