June 15

15 June 2012
Top slot
Top article: 
City of ghosts, city of music: La Habana lost and regained
Top article title: 
City of ghosts, city of music
Top article description: 
In pursuit of La Habana - the journey of a lifetime.
Top image: 
Image credit: 
© Scarlett Freund
Left column
Article 1: 
It’s the journalism, stupid: defending free expression can be the BBC’s new gift to the world
Article 1 title: 
It’s the journalism, stupid
Article 1 description: 
As freedom of expression and journalistic independence comes under renewed threat in eastern Europe and around the world, the BBC should be confronting censorship abroad head-on, as well as leading by example.
Article 2: 
The Last Great British Summer for England
Article 2 description: 
The desperate construction of cultural Britishness observable in this summer's Jubilee and Olympics is just another attempt to conflate British identity with an idealised vision of England. The motivation for those in power is clear: to disguise the gaping constitutional issues that threaten the UK's political authority.
Article 3: 
Peacebuilding in an impossible context? Perspectives from Pakistan
Article 3 title: 
Peacebuilding in an impossible context?
Article 3 description: 
Caught between the restrictions placed on them by the state and a relationship with the general public framed by suspicion of collaboration with the West, Pakistani peacebuilders need to articulate their work on their own terms.
Right column
Article 1: 
Azerbaijan: the geopolitical conundrum
Article 1 description: 
The Eurovision song contest catapulted Azerbaijan into world news and focused attention on its internal problems. But foreign policy issues are a cause of concern too. The country is caught in between Iran, Russia and the West and finding a way to meet the needs of all of them is going to be extremely difficult.
Article 2: 
Syria, the proxy war
Article 2 description: 
The conflict in Syria is being shaped by the strategic rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran. A descent into even greater violence could yet be avoided, but this would need both Russia and the United States to shift their stance.
Article 3: 
Belief in the Union: solidarity with the Greeks
Article 3 description: 
They think ‘Europe’ is ‘foreign affairs’. But Europe is nothing if it is not its citizens.<br><br> Also on Greece:<br> <a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/sarah-steffanuti/grexit-and-sovereign-crisis-of-trust-why-greeks-should-not-accept-german-terms-of-a">Grexit and the sovereign crisis of trust</a>, and<br> <a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/vassilis-k-fouskas/dear-merkel-beware-greeks-bearing-geopolitics">It's the geopolitics, stupid!</a>, and<br> <a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/ash-amin/elite-hauteur-greece-niger-and-imf">Greece, Niger and the IMF</a>
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