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Published in: openDemocracyUKGuantanamo Bay: the shadow cast over the 'special relationship'
Guantanamo Bay is unlikely to be discussed by Cameron and Obama during the president's first state visit to the UK...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKCollective purpose and a sense of belonging: the road to happiness?
What do we need to be happy? The satisfaction of our basic needs? Independence? A positive lifestyle? Yes, says Matt...
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Published in: HomeWhy Hamas has no need for Saatchi and Saatchi.
There is little evidence that suggests that sanitizing or transforming the Palestinian brand produces much of a...
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Published in: HomePolitics of fear: a frightened left
Nobody has raised real debates in national or supranational parliaments to discuss the excesses of the securitarian...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKDemocratising the well-being movement
The danger of the well-being movement is that it could lead to us being spoon-fed advice on how to live. Yet the art...
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Published in: HomeMedia whizz-kids of the security state
The very idea behind Pakistan's security state is that civilians are expendable, that there is no need to build...
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Published in: HomeWhat did Pakistan know?
If America wants Pakistan on side; if it wants to see a stable Pakistan that is not a haven for terrorists and that...
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Published in: HomeShould bin Laden have been tried?
Maybe there really was no choice. But we have lost something by not putting bin Laden on trial, and that is a...
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Published in: HomeThe Hamas-Fatah unity deal: regional and international power dynamics
Despite the best efforts of the US and its European and regional allies to ignore them, international and regional...
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Published in: HomeAl-Qaeda post-Bin Laden: what next?
The Salafi-jihadist movement is losing its recruitment pool in the Arab world. Its latest strategies look elsewhere,...
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Published in: HomeBlood, birthright and belonging: Obama’s birth certificate and the royal wedding
The ornate rituals in Westminster Abbey, and Donald Trump’s investigation of President Obama’s birth certificate...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKNews Corp's bid for BSkyB is a threat to British cultural expression
News Corp's bid for full ownership of BSkyB not only threatens the plurality of news provision in the UK. The...
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Published in: HomeCanada: democracy and core public values after 2 May
The Canadian Government has obfuscated over the transfer of its Afghan detainees to the brutal and torturing Afghan...
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Published in: HomeAmerica's political suspense
The manoeuvring over the United States presidential election in 2012 is underway. But the nature of a contest...
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Published in: HomeMisunderestimating the Tea Party
Independent and moderate US voters do share the Tea Party’s concern about the spiralling national debt, stagnant...
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Published in: HomeI Live in a Small World
At home, our author has been building, with a hunger for food, wholeness, and what reckless history there is in the...
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Published in: HomeVietnam to Iraq and AfPak: traps of history
The United States's prolonged counterinsurgency wars in Afghanistan and Iraq raise strong echoes of Vietnam. But new...
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Published in: HomeThe curious case of Mr Nada
Human rights are undermined in the war on terror by the widespread use of blacklists.
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Published in: HomeDealing with diversity the North-American way
Being ‘caste-blind’ in economically shining India might be a wonderful way to fight caste-demarcations in urban...
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Published in: HomeThe new food movement: politics and pleasure
The emergent movements around the politics of food are a vital component of debates on the planet’s future, says...