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Published in: HomePeople power and the new global fermentPeople power does not lend itself to the geo-strategic interests of empires or warlords, since it is based on...
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Published in: HomeFrance’s pension reform: the bitter pillThe popular rejection of Nicolas Sarkozy’s abrupt changes to France’s pension system is rooted in the institutional...
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Published in: HomeEcuador: between rebellion and coup
A confrontation between police and president in Ecuador reveals the flawed governance of an unsettled country, says...
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Published in: HomeSweden’s Social Democrats: the test of failure
The electoral victory of Sweden’s centre-right coalition forces is a historic setback for the country’s...
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Published in: HomeNicaragua’s broken polity
Nicaragua's struggle against dictatorship three decades ago inspired the world. The small central American country...
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Published in: oDRThe Poet and the Tsar
When Putin sat down to tea with artists and musicians before a charity concert last month, he could not have...
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Published in: HomeSlovakia’s surprising election
The narrow defeat of a populist-nationalist coalition, and in particular the advance of a party advocating...
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Published in: oDRKyrgyzstan’s referendum brings a flicker of hopeThe 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: HomeThe Uyghur voice: 2009-10, and beyond
The violent protests of July 2009 in Urumchi revealed deep-rooted problems in Beijing’s policy towards the Uyghur...
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Published in: HomeKyrgyzstan’s flawed referendum
The political atmosphere that surrounded the constitutional referendum in Kyrgyzstan shows that the country’s crisis...
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Published in: HomeKyrgyzstan: components of crisis
The explosion of violence in southern Kyrgyzstan is the result of social pressures, economic hardship and political...
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Published in: HomeKyrgyzstan’s angel of death
The explosion of terrifying violence in southern Kyrgyzstan reveals deep-rooted problems in this central Asian...
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Published in: HomeKyrgyzstan: the absence of mercy
The humanitarian crisis in southern Kyrgyzstan fits all the requirements for international intervention. So why is...
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Published in: HomeKyrgyzstan failing, and an arc of crisis
The violent descent of parts of Kyrgyzstan into communal conflict since the overthrow of its president in April 2010...
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Published in: HomeBurma's authoritarian upgrade: 1990-2010
The Burmese junta’s sophisticated and ruthless project of reinvention - “SPDC 2.0” - is preparing the way for an...
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Published in: HomeTomás Eloy Martínez and the Argentine dream
The work of the Argentinean writer Tomás Eloy Martínez is intimately bound with the country’s modern history of...
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Published in: HomeSilvio Berlusconi: culture bites politics
A successful, intimidating prime minister has moulded Italy’s public life in his own image. A fearful, supine...
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Published in: HomeColombia: the “green wave” that wasn’t
The first round of the contest to succeed Álvaro Uribe as Colombia’s president produced one big surprise and five...
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Published in: HomeThe Kyrgyz catastrophe
Bishkek’s bloody regime-change reflects the aborted hopes of the brief political flowering in 2005. But a key...
