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Published in: openSecurityIran in the straits?
How are recent events in Iran to be interpreted? History has a lot to teach us, argues David Madden
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Published in: HomeGiant strides or fairy footsteps
How much progress can be made in tackling climate change without a global deal?
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Published in: openSecurityArmed conflict, land grabs and big business: Colombia’s deadly pact
The recent assassination of Colombian marxist insurgent group leader Alfonso Cano has been hailed internationally as...
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Published in: HomeSolidarity: trails, perils, choices
The idea of solidarity retains its moral force. Yet it is vulnerable to the same manipulations as any category of...
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Published in: HomeThe global 1989
The political transformation and social drama of the 1989 revolutions in east-central Europe promised a decisive...
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Published in: oDRTime for the human approach
Dmitry Medvedev’s proposal for a new post-cold war security order offers a significant opportunity for the world....
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Published in: HomeThe AfPak endgame
Behind the escalation of United States cross-border raids into Pakistan and of Taliban attacks on coalition...
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Published in: HomeTargeted sanctions on Mugabe - should the EU appease Jacob Zuma?
The EU must not submit to Zuma's calls for the lifting of sanctions in Zimbabwe, argues Clifford Chitupa Mashiri
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Published in: oDRKyrgyzstan’s referendum brings a flicker of hope
The new constitution which the Kyrgyz people voted in on 27 June 2010 seeks to break the presidential pattern of...
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Published in: HomeSon of the Bani Tanwir: the work of Fred Halliday (1946-2010)
The death in April 2010 of Fred Halliday, engaged political intellectual and scholar of international relations,...
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Published in: HomeBarcelona i Catalunya: the real thing
The scholar of world politics and openDemocracy columnist Fred Halliday lived and worked in - and fell in love with...
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Published in: HomeWho is responsible? An interview with Fred Halliday
Fred Halliday, who died on 26 April, talks to Danny Postel about realpolitik, religion, universal rights and the...
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Published in: HomeFred Halliday, 1946-2010: a tribute
The death of political analyst and international-relations scholar Fred Halliday extinguishes a voice and a light...
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Published in: HomeIn our hands – the human right to water
If you wanted to raise the issue of water privatisation and its effect on the human right to water, you might turn...