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conflictsEven when guns are silent, the ideas behind them threaten. Warfare and conflict resolution urgently need to be explained, their causes clarified, and creative solutions explored.
The sparkling economy and regional power of the new India can't conceal its festering problems
A messy conflict reflects collective forgetting. It's time to recall history, break the cycle, and build the future in Abkhazia and Georgia
A tide of discontent and insurgency places the viability of the world's economic model in question
Pakistanis hoped for a fresh start after a decade of military rule. But the past is hard to escape
Three countries with three elections in 2008-09 make a political strategy for Iraq's future urgent
The serial blasts against Indian cities expose the infirmity of the country’s institutions
The seizure of a leading war-crimes suspect may help lift the burdens of the past in the region
Radovan Karadzic's detention is a moral lesson in political accountability
A key fugitive from the ex-Yugoslavia wars is held. Who gains?
The “one-state solution” to the Israeli-Palestinian impasse is winning support. Time to rethink?
If Britain is serious about controlling nuclear proliferation, it has to take a lead
The bombing of India's
Kabul embassy is part of a pattern of assaults sourced in Pakistan
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Taliban-al-Qaida regroupment in the Pakistani borderlands is
bringing the war closer to Kabul
What the United States and Israel do in the next four months will shape the middle east's future for four years and more
The rising tension on the Abkhazia-Georgia border is fuelling fear and intransigence
A rising generation will take Muslims' post-7/7 intellectual ferment forward, testing institutions
The bombs of 7 July 2005 wounded London. Our first response warned of damage to democracy too (archive)
A porous border in Russia's deep south becomes a channel of war and torture
The legal and human context of the US Supreme Court's landmark verdict (archive)
The revived talk of war with Iran is tied to the unfolding race for the United States presidency
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