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Published in: HomeBrazil's election: politics and personalitiesThe end of Lula’s eight-year presidency of Brazil is approaching. But the contest to succeed him is deeply marked by...
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Published in: HomeThe Sahara's new cargo: drugs and radicalism
A fusion of illicit money-making and radical politics is turning the big empty spaces of the western half of the...
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Published in: HomePoland’s second Katyń: out of the ashes
The flight-disaster that consumed Poland’s president and dozens of the nation’s senior figures may be followed by a...
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Published in: HomeFrance: president’s defeat, polity’s crisis
Nicolas Sarkozy’s buffeting and the left’s advance in regional elections are less important than France’s profound...
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Published in: HomeChile: politics of an earthquake
The epic wave of destruction on 27 February 2010 has tested the character of the Chilean nation and the reputation...
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Published in: HomeChina: inside strain, outside spleen
The increasingly combative global stance of China’s political authorities is connected to the intense ferment of...
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Published in: HomeAmnesty: human rights, political wrongs
An intense controversy over Amnesty International's association with people who reject its universalist principles...
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Published in: HomeArgentina y las Malvinas: in search of reality
The revival of Argentina’s dispute with Britain over the south Atlantic island territory owes much to the political...
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Published in: HomeBrazil after Lula: left vs left
Brazil’s presidential election of 2010 is the first since the return to democracy in 1985 in which Lula is not a...
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Published in: HomeThe Vatican’s fix: abuse and renewal
The burgeoning international scandal involving the abuse of children by Catholic clergy is the biggest crisis for...
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Published in: HomeRomania and Europe: an entrapped decade
Romania’s post-communist transition was captured by a political elite that consolidated its power, enriched itself...
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Published in: HomeHizbollah vs Israel: the coming clash
A shifting balance of calculation in the middle east makes Lebanon’s Hizbollah movement more confident in its...
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Published in: HomeBeyond Berlusconi: ten questions to Italy’s opposition
Italy’s economy and polity are in perennial trouble, but its prime minister Silvio Berlusconi survives every blow....
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Published in: HomeBangladesh: a quest for justice
The search for accountability for the genocide in Bangladesh in 1971 needs international support, say Jalal Alamgir...
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Published in: oDRRussian unemployment: massaging the stats
The economic crisis has hit Russian regions hard. Natalya Zubarevich deems government solutions to the resulting...
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Published in: HomeHaiti: the politics of recovery
The daunting task of post-earthquake reconstruction in Haiti amounts to a long-term challenge in state-building, say...
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Published in: HomeHaiti’s earthquake: a future after mercy
The existing levels of human insecurity in Haiti make the country’s post-disaster recovery even more difficult. All...
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Published in: HomeChile’s political turn
The result of Chile’s presidential election reflects less the achievement of the rightwing candidate than the...
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Published in: HomeThe International Criminal Court: justice and politics
A key institution of modern justice must learn how to speak to the world it inhabits, says James A Goldston.
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Published in: HomeFrance: identity in question
A "great debate" over French national identity is compromised by its politicised character and exclusionary...
