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Democracy's time, Islamists' move, Shadi Hamid The killing-fields of inequality , Göran Therborn The North Korean enigma, Charles K Armstrong Afghanistan's last throw, Paul Rogers Kashgar: politics of demolition, Henryk Szadziewski Assam rocked by bomb blasts, Aaradhana Jhunjhunwala The ‘vertical of power’ grabs Russian cinema, Danil Dondurey The G20's sins of commission, Tony Curzon Price

Democracy's time, Islamists' move, Shadi Hamid In early March 2009, a group of more than 100 experts and scholars from the United States and the Muslim world issued an open letter to President Barack Obama, urging him to make support for democracy in the middle east a top priority. The letter -... Read more » The killing-fields of inequality , Göran Therborn There are at least three quite different kinds of inequality, and they are all destructive of human lives and of human societies. The first is inequality of health and death, what might be called vital inequality. Here, hard evidence is... Read more » The North Korean enigma, Charles K Armstrong Read more » Afghanistan's last throw, Paul Rogers The combination of a revised United States strategy towards Afghanistan and Pakistan, announced by President Barack Obama on 26 March 2009, and an international conference on Afghanistan in The Hague on 31 March have refocused attention on the... Read more » Kashgar: politics of demolition, Henryk Szadziewski In the heart of Kashgar's old city, the bustle of central Asian life has not changed in centuries. In bright sunlight, the mud-brick buildings seemingly blend in with labyrinth-like streets powdered by the sands of the Taklamakan desert.... Read more » Assam rocked by bomb blasts, Aaradhana Jhunjhunwala Eight people were killed and over twenty injured when twin blasts occurred in the eastern Indian city of Guwahati and the town of Dhekiajuli in the eastern state of Assam. The blasts occurred at 2:00 PM local time on Monday, 6 April. News agencies... Read more » The ‘vertical of power’ grabs Russian cinema, Danil Dondurey  From the editors of openDemocracy Russia: There can hardly be another country in the world where an event like a congress of the Film-makers Union could attract so much attention as in the old Soviet Union, or now in  Putin's Russia. At the... Read more » The G20's sins of commission, Tony Curzon Price Amid the shortage of credit, jobs and confidence, the G20 has produced an abundance of commitments. There are 19 uses of the word in the 29 numbered paragraphs -- a 30% commitment rate per paragraph seems to amount to a good deal of promise. But... Read more »