A new world order, Krzysztof Rybinski
What is and should be the future of global governance? Who should make the key decisions and in what institutional frameworks? The answers to these questions may be approached via a retrospective glance at an epochal moment when they might have seemed far clearer than they do today: the "diamond jubilee" of 1897 which marked Queen Victoria's sixty years on the British throne. Fareed Zakaria brilliantly evokes the scene on 22 June 1897 which conjoined London and much of the globe: ... more »
The futures of Iraq , Fred Halliday
What will happen in Iraq between 2008 and 2012? The agreement between the United States and the Iraqi government of Nouri al-Maliki government in Baghdad on a plan for the withdrawal of United States forces by the end of 2011 is the context for this question to be posed rather than a definitive answer. The prospects remain open.
This article digests the conclusions of a report of the specialist international study group on Iraq of the Centro de Información y Documentación... more »
Lashkar-e-Taiba: a profile, Raja Karthikeya
The Mumbai attacks have brought renewed focus on Lashkar-e-Taiba, which had hitherto been seen as merely a Kashmiri separatist group. Indian investigators suspect the outfit to be involved in last week's run-and-gun rampage that left nearly two hundred people dead in Mumbai. A serious look at Lashkar's background and tactics suggest that it is unlike any terrorist group that has operated in India or indeed in the international arena.
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Lashkar-e-Taiba ("Army of... more »
Alexander Sokurov: Stand up and be Counted!, Nikolai Kudin
- In a recent interview you said that you had very little left in common with the interests and themes of the Russian film community. How did this happen?
- I wouldn't like to set myself against my colleagues: there are very worthy people among them, and also people who I wouldn't shake hands with, as in any professional community. But I really have few points of contact with people from film circles, because we have very differing world views. I had a serious disagreement with my... more »
Russia: raid on Memorial HQ,
What was the real reason behind yesterday's raid by armed police on the St.Petersburg headquarters of the human rights organisation Memorial? Below, we publish a statement from the board of Memorial, containing the basic details of the story. However, the pretext offered by the Prosecutor General's office does not hold water, as Memorial's statement makes clear.
Some Russian human rights lawyers are maintaining that the real reason goes back to Memorial's screening a... more »
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