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The war on terror: seven years on , Paul Rogers
The previous column in this series reflected on the first seven years of the post-9/11 conflict, and highlighted three of its significant if less prominent aspects - the performance of United States troops, the impact of Washington's relationship with Israel, and the fate of the US-led coalition (see "The war on terror: seven years on - part one", 25 September 2008). This second part of the retrospective - which takes account of the (now) 371 weekly columns in openDemocracy since... more »
The paradoxes of power, Natalia Leshchenko
Many people who wished for a better future for Belarus held their breath during the parliamentary election on 28 September 2008 - and groaned with frustration as the results were announced. The fact that not a single member of the opposition managed to get elected to parliament was bad enough; it was no consolation at all that the electoral process was still far from observing democratic norms - the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) registered unreliable counting in 48%... more »
Amazing Austria, again, Anton Pelinka
There is no news but bad news. Austria seems to have internalised this wisdom. To make headlines in the global media, Austria does its best: if it is not a cruel story about a man who imprisoned his daughter for years and fathered a number of children with her, it must be the revival of hard-right political sentiment. As if on cue, in the general election of 28 September 2008 two extremist rightwing parties - xenophobic, anti-European, and with a strong flavour of Nazi nostalgia - attracted 28%... more »
Uzbekistan: harvest by force, Andrew Stroehlein
The start of the school year in Europe each autumn is a period when education resumes its place at the heart of the lives of pupils and their families. The equivalent of this annual cycle is very different in the central Asian state of Uzbekistan, where soon after their own school year begins, most students will be pulled out of classes to work in the cotton-fields for two months.
Andrew Stroehlein is media and information director at the International Crisis Group
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