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Published in: HomeChina: inside strain, outside spleenThe increasingly combative global stance of China’s political authorities is connected to the intense ferment of...
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Published in: HomeAmnesty: human rights, political wrongs
An intense controversy over Amnesty International's association with people who reject its universalist principles...
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Published in: HomeAfghanistan: victory talk, regional tide
A seductive narrative of military progress in Afghanistan is spreading among United States analysts. The real story...
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Published in: HomeIran: torch of fire, politics of fun
The doctrinal contempt of Islamist regimes for popular festivals such as the Iranian nowrooz (new year) extends to...
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Published in: HomeKashgar’s old city: landscape of loss
The Chinese authorities’ continuing demolition of the urban heartland of Uyghur society is also the outward face of...
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Published in: HomeArgentina y las Malvinas: in search of reality
The revival of Argentina’s dispute with Britain over the south Atlantic island territory owes much to the political...
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Published in: openSecurityNetanyahu meets Obama in midst of Jerusalem settlement row
Netanyahu meets Obama in midst of Jerusalem settlement row. US-Pakistani talks seek better ties. Amnesty...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKCrash report: Has the left learned the lessons of the financial crisis?
When financial markets collapsed in 2008, it was widely seen as the end of an era dominated by neoliberalism. Is the...
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Published in: HomeBrazil after Lula: left vs left
Brazil’s presidential election of 2010 is the first since the return to democracy in 1985 in which Lula is not a...
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Published in: HomeThe great American refusal
Barack Obama’s healthcare-reform bill is a real legislative achievement. But the toxic atmosphere surrounding its...
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Published in: HomeThe Vatican’s fix: abuse and renewal
The burgeoning international scandal involving the abuse of children by Catholic clergy is the biggest crisis for...
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Published in: HomeThe Prorizna Street rebellion
A spirited protest in central Kyiv embodies the ethos of a new, civic Ukraine whose people - despite their...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWell David (Miliband), "racket" was not so far off after all
Last month OK's editor told the Foreign Secretary that the public viewed politics as a "racket" and he disagreed,...
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Published in: openSecurityMajor Taliban allies in peace talks with Karzai
Afghan president holds talks with leading militant group. Sudan threatens to throw out international election...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKGiving my vote away
Shahryar Malek explains why he has decided to give his vote in the forthcoming UK election to citizens of...
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Published in: HomeAmerica and Israel: a historic choice
The serious row between Washington and Tel Aviv is about far more than the construction of homes in east Jerusalem;...
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Published in: HomeRomania and Europe: an entrapped decade
Romania’s post-communist transition was captured by a political elite that consolidated its power, enriched itself...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKAn opportunity missed? The government response to the Youth Citizenship CommissionLabour responds to a report on increasing young people's participation in politics
