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Published in: openEconomyDealing with the post-crisis: the US's pain optionsThe banking crisis creates a quantum of pain that we will all feel. But there are choices in the way that pain is...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKPolice confiscation powers to be given to councils, quangos and others
We should be concerned about powers given to local councils and quangos
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Published in: HomeThe trial and the wall
The celebration of Europe’s “velvet revolutions” is an appropriate time to recall that what happened in Srebrenica...
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Published in: HomeThe other 1989s
The great events in Europe in 1989 had a worldwide impact - and of a more destructive kind than is often...
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Published in: openSecurityIran has tested sophisticated nuclear warhead designs
The IAEA has asked Iran to explain evidence that it has tested a sophisticated design for a nuclear warhead. Saudi...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKBlair for EU? Nonsense from start to finish
Rumours that Tony Blair will be EU President are based on misconceptions
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe Future of Politics?
The role for think tanks to take as they debate the ideas needed "for fixing the essential plumbing of our body politic"
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Published in: openDemocracyUKBonfire of the Constitution
An excerpt from Anthony Barnett's Guardian commentary
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Published in: openDemocracyUKCameron and the EU
It looks as if David Cameron is once again going to dance rings around Gordon Brown and his ministers
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Published in: HomeIndia’s 21st-century war
In an age of climate change and deepening inequality, the spreading Naxalite insurgency in India - not al-Qaida -...
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Published in: HomeInternational law Is key
The Palestinians’ right of return challenges not only international law itself, but more so the political will of UN...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWhose Side Are They On? How Big Brother Government is Ruining Britain
Alan Pearce, author of Whose Side Are They On? How Big Brother Government is Ruining Britain, explains why he was...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKKelly alone isn't enough - Power2010's open letter to party leaders
If any more evidence were needed that the Westminster system is itself sick and in dire need of treatment then the...
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Published in: HomeIn Bangkok: remembering the Tak Bai massacre
The deepening crisis in Thailand is symbolised by the lack of accountability for state violence in the country’s...
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Published in: openSecurityChina to 'strike hard' in Xinjiang
China launches crackdown in Xinjiang region. Iran urged to accept nuclear proposals. Karadzic attends trial for...
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Published in: HomeBarack Obama: reality time
A presidency born in hope of change is stuck. A year since Obama’s election, an anniversary assessment from Godfrey...
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Published in: HomeThe end and the beginning: lessons of 1989
The epic upheaval of 1989 was a time when east Europeans lost their fear, overcame their moral frustration and...
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Published in: Home1989: moment, legacy, future
How does the great uprising of 1989 look now, in the perspective of twenty years? Many questions still surround the...
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Published in: openSecuritySullied victory for Karzai after rival quits presidential race
Afghan President Hamid Karzai wins tarnished election. US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton sparks criticism for...
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