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Published in: HomeThe Moroccan exception, and a king's speech
Morocco is not immune to the forces of change sweeping across the Arab world. But the response of its head of state...
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Published in: HomeThe Arab revolt and the colour revolutions
The fate of the popular insurgencies in Serbia, Georgia, Ukraine and elsewhere in the early-mid 2000s could offer...
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Published in: HomeIsrael and the Arab awakening
Israel’s political class is struggling to make sense of a crumbling Arab order and the loss of the certainties it...
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Published in: HomeFrance, Europe, and the Arab maelstrom
An Arab world in transformation has found France’s elite shamed by its links with the old order. A control-freak...
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Published in: HomeSaudi ferment, and a king’s choice
Saudi Arabia’s ruling family is seeking to mollify discontent by spending some of its vast wealth. But that approach...
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Published in: HomeAmerica and the Arab revolts: faces of power
The crisis in Libya is confronting the United States with a new awareness of its military and political constraints,...
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Published in: HomeThe global democratic revolution: a new stage
The popular risings in the Arab world belong to a wider historical process of worldwide democratic advance. But the...
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Published in: HomeChina and the Egyptian rising
The Arab democratic awakening makes China’s communist leaders nervous. But are they right to be worried, ask Kerry...
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Published in: HomeThe Arab rebellion: perspectives of power
The Arab popular awakening is provoking serious concern among state and security elites across the west. But...
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Published in: HomeIsrael and human rights: voice and silence
A series of legislative measures in Israel will further constrain Israel’s beleaguered human-rights groups. A...
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Published in: HomeThe Arab revolt: transformation to transition
A hurricane of change is blowing through the Arab world. Even now, many Arab regimes are still in denial. But it...
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Published in: HomeBerlusconi - and Italy - on trial
The new legal case against Italy's prime minister is also a test for a divided nation at a critical stage in its...
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Published in: HomeEgypt, and the thirty years of solitude
The epic events in the Arab world’s heartland are also a lesson in the loneliness of power, says Goran Fejic.
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Published in: HomeAlexander Lukashenka’s new test
The Belarusian president’s latest election victory and the violent crackdown after it clarify the national challenge...
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Published in: HomeThe state of things: a London protest
A student protest in central London reveals the ugly face of an unaccountable government and the angry one of an...
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Published in: HomeWhere have all the adults gone?
A new generation’s protest is part of a deeper political sea-change in Europe. But a London student demonstration -...
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Published in: HomeStreet politics, violence, and media
The student movement in Britain against the government’s tuition-fees and spending policies faces inescapable...
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Published in: HomeRed lenses on a rainbow of revolutions
Given continued strikes in Iran and the freeing of Aung San Suu Kyi in Burma, neither the Burmese nor Iranian...
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Published in: HomeRepression’s paradox in China
From the authoritarian’s perspective, internal dissidents are easy to deal with – put them in jail, have them...
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Published in: HomeThe Anishinabe and an unsung nonviolent victory in late twentieth-century Wisconsin
In the wake of the civil rights movement in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s, many Native Americans adopted...