 | The arrest of Augusto Pinochet: ten years on , David Sugarman When Augusto Pinochet, the authoritarian military ruler of Chile from 1973 to 1990, was arrested in London on 16 October 1998, it was one of those rare events that sets history off in a new direction. A decade on, the world is still living with the consequences of this (at the time) stunning moment. How has the landmark case that followed changed the landscape of international justice and immunity, and affected the prospects today for holding to account leaders responsible for grave abuses of... more » Georgia: the politics of recovery , Robert Parsons Georgia is still dazed by the catastrophic turn of events of August 2008, when a brutal five-day war with Russia over the breakaway region of South Ossetia. The events of that period and its aftermath - which saw the country face bombardment, destruction, loss of life, expulsion of Georgians from the affected areas, military defeat and occupation of parts of its core territory - are still vivid and heavy on people's minds. Uncertainty clouds the future as anxiety about economic slowdown... more » Anatolian Muslimhood: humanising capitalism? , Max Farrar A week in Istanbul can hardly fail to be an enriching experience for the intellectually curious visitor - even more when this great city, and Turkey generally, is at the heart of so many of the world's shaping concerns of faith and politics. This was certainly the case for me, when I stayed in Istanbul as a guest of the London-based Dialogue Society which supports the ideas and aims of the influential Islamic thinker Fethullah Gülen. These days of intense and enjoyable discussion -... more » Malaysia's democratic pause, Bridget Welsh Malaysian politics is at present an intriguing mixture of stasis and flux. The most high-profile issue in September-October 2008 has been the failure of leading opposition figure Anwar Ibrahim to deliver his promise to find enough numbers to create a majority in parliament and as a result create a more representative government. Instead, prime minister Abdullah Badawi has agreed to step down in March 2009 - a year after the Anwar-inspired "democratic tsunami" which deprived the ruling... more » The wrong turn (2): 'hegemonic masculinity', Rosemary Bechler How has it come to this - this lack of any vocabulary about what feminist ambition ought to look like? I was particularly struck because I have just spent some weeks exploring the revelatory advances made by US feminist researchers in the last twenty years in the field of international relations (IR). These advances emerged in the wake of the 1970's, precisely at the point when equal rights activists realised that women could be brought from the periphery into the centre of leadership and... more » Russia's Moldova test, William H. Hill Russia's crushing use of force against Georgia last August gave rise to frenzied speculation that Moscow would mount similar military threats to other neighboring states and former Soviet republics. However, the next major Russian initiative in the "post-Soviet space" has come in a different fashion in the miniscule Republic of Moldova. In contrast to the Georgian case, the Russian scenario in Moldova casts President Dmitri Medvedev in the role of sage peacemaker in an... more » Jarvis describes ... what oD tries to do, Tony Curzon Price Here is Jeff Jarvis in the Guardian today: "I want a page, a site, a something that is created, curated, edited and discussed. It will include articles. But it's also a blog that treats a topic as an ongoing and cumulative process of learning, digging, correcting, asking, answering. It's a wiki that keeps a snapshot of the latest knowledge and background. It's an aggregator that provides curated and annotated links to experts, coverage from elsewhere, a mix of opinion and... more » | |||
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The arrest of Augusto Pinochet: ten years on , David Sugarman
When Augusto Pinochet, the authoritarian military ruler of Chile from 1973 to 1990, was arrested in London on 16 October 1998, it was one of those rare events that sets history off in a new direction. A decade on, the world is still living with the consequences of this (at the time) stunning moment. How has the landmark case that followed changed the landscape of international justice and immunity, and affected the prospects today for holding to account leaders responsible for grave abuses of... more »
Georgia: the politics of recovery , Robert Parsons
Georgia is still dazed by the catastrophic turn of events of August 2008, when a brutal five-day war with Russia over the breakaway region of South Ossetia. The events of that period and its aftermath - which saw the country face bombardment, destruction, loss of life, expulsion of Georgians from the affected areas, military defeat and occupation of parts of its core territory - are still vivid and heavy on people's minds. Uncertainty clouds the future as anxiety about economic slowdown... more »
Anatolian Muslimhood: humanising capitalism? , Max Farrar
A week in Istanbul can hardly fail to be an enriching experience for the intellectually curious visitor - even more when this great city, and Turkey generally, is at the heart of so many of the world's shaping concerns of faith and politics. This was certainly the case for me, when I stayed in Istanbul as a guest of the London-based Dialogue Society which supports the ideas and aims of the influential Islamic thinker Fethullah Gülen.
These days of intense and enjoyable discussion -... more »
Malaysia's democratic pause, Bridget Welsh
Malaysian politics is at present an intriguing mixture of stasis and flux. The most high-profile issue in September-October 2008 has been the failure of leading opposition figure Anwar Ibrahim to deliver his promise to find enough numbers to create a majority in parliament and as a result create a more representative government. Instead, prime minister Abdullah Badawi has agreed to step down in March 2009 - a year after the Anwar-inspired "democratic tsunami" which deprived the ruling... more »
The wrong turn (2): 'hegemonic masculinity', Rosemary Bechler
How has it come to this - this lack of any vocabulary about what feminist ambition ought to look like? I was particularly struck because I have just spent some weeks exploring the revelatory advances made by US feminist researchers in the last twenty years in the field of international relations (IR). These advances emerged in the wake of the 1970's, precisely at the point when equal rights activists realised that women could be brought from the periphery into the centre of leadership and... more »
Russia's Moldova test, William H. Hill
Russia's crushing use of force against Georgia last August gave rise to frenzied speculation that Moscow would mount similar military threats to other neighboring states and former Soviet republics. However, the next major Russian initiative in the "post-Soviet space" has come in a different fashion in the miniscule Republic of Moldova. In contrast to the Georgian case, the Russian scenario in Moldova casts President Dmitri Medvedev in the role of sage peacemaker in an... more »
Jarvis describes ... what oD tries to do, Tony Curzon Price
Here is Jeff Jarvis in the Guardian today:
"I want a page, a site, a something that is created, curated, edited and discussed. It will include articles. But it's also a blog that treats a topic as an ongoing and cumulative process of learning, digging, correcting, asking, answering. It's a wiki that keeps a snapshot of the latest knowledge and background. It's an aggregator that provides curated and annotated links to experts, coverage from elsewhere, a mix of opinion and... more »
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