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Published in: HomeThe global crisis: seeing it wholeIf important new studies of social and economic failure can be fused with awareness of environmental and security...
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Published in: HomeA warmed-up cold war
The east-west dispute over Crimea is full of tensions within as well as between each side. Its drivers include the...
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Published in: HomeEurope freezes, Eurasia pivots
Behind the crisis in Ukraine lie deeper changes that are transforming the global economic and and political order,...
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Published in: openSecurityRana Plaza: the struggle continuesA year after the huge loss of mainly-female Bangladeshi garment workers’ lives at Rana Plaza, unions are still...
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Published in: HomeNorth African diversities: Algeria in flux
Algeria’s circles of power and their relationship to a complex society and history are hard to grasp. Francis Ghilès...
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Published in: HomeA different climate
Many new paths to climate action are being taken, with the global south in the forefront. Even modest support and...
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Published in: HomeGenocide and justice: where now?Two decades after the Rwanda genocide, the promised hopes of international accountability for such crimes is in...
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Published in: HomeThe drone-casualty-law-civic nexus
The issue of civilian casualties from armed-drone strikes in Afghanistan and elsewhere needs transparency from...
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Published in: HomeSyria: Kessab's battle and Armenians' history
The takeover by anti-Damascus rebels of an Armenian village in northern Syria, near the border with Turkey, has...
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Published in: HomeAmerica's chimerical pivot
The United States's shift towards Asia is being tested by global economic realities, say Ernesto Gallo & Giovanni Biava.
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Published in: HomeThe drone evasion
A parliamentary report on the UK's use of armed-drones in Afghanistan is, in its language and its attitude to...
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Published in: HomeChina, between self and society
The need for an ethical vision to hold society together saw China's former premier Wen Jiabao look to Adam Smith....
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Published in: HomeA tale of two speeches
Vladimir Putin's vision of Russia's destiny has parallels with George W Bush's of the United States in the aftermath...
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Published in: HomeIraq, past and future war
The retreat from Afghanistan is proving hard enough for the United States. But its military return to Iraq is much...
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Published in: HomeUkraine's crisis, the west's trap
The dangerous stand-off with Russia over Ukraine is also a display of the west's skewed perceptions and moral vanities.
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Published in: HomeClimate politics: a melting glacier...
A new political tone on climate change in Britain is matched by a breakthrough in understanding the retreat of...
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Published in: HomeA flooded future: Essex to the world
Two floods, two eras, two worlds. The contrast between 1953 and 2014 in southern England is a lesson both in class...
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Published in: HomeFrance and Rwanda's genocide: a long wait
The belated trial of a suspected genocidaire in Paris highlights the complex political relationship between Rwanda...
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Published in: HomeGovernance in the Arab world: history on the run
The hopes that inspired the "Arab spring", of jobs as well as freedom, have hit a rock. But the setbacks since 2011...
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Published in: HomeDemocracy in the "Asian century"
A shift of global power to the east exposes the west's domestic as well as international weaknesses, say Ernesto...
