Thursday, 16 April 2009


India's election: parties and people, Sumantra Bose

India's politics is an alphabet-soup that is certain to bewilder the uninitiated.

As the world's largest democracy heads into its fifteenth general election since independence in 1947, Uttar Pradesh - the country's most populous...

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Planning for Prosperity, Mohammed Ibrahim Megdad

Gaza2, © by Sameh HabeebIn some regards, the current crisis of the Palestinian economy is as old as the Occupation itself. In 1967 Israel occupied the Gaza Strip and the West Bank in addition to the Golan Heights and Sinai Desert. Immediately after that war, Israel formed...

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Squabbles over the post-Soviet space, Sergei Markedonov

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What’s Left Now?, Tibor Dessewffy

Horror vacui: Nature abhors a vacuum. Written some 2300 years ago, this Aristotelian thesis also holds true for the world of socio-political ideas. Moreover, it is the most precise conceivable description of our situation today, in early 2009. The...

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Russia-Georgia rapprochement? Get real, Ivan Sukhov

  The way things are, Ambassador Kitsmarishvili's proposals on procedural issues for ensuring a rapprochement between Georgia and Russia seem excessively optimistic.

Attempts are being made in both Georgia and Russia. But the very ideology of...

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