Thursday, 9 April 2009

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Piracy challenges global governance, Daniele Archibugi Marina Chiarugi

We may be certain that many Hollywood screenwriters are now taking notes on the rebirth of piracy in the Gulf of Aden. Pirates were believed to have become anachronistic in a world in which nations had occupied every corner of the earth and even of...

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Barack Obama and Afghanistan: a closer look, Mariano Aguirre

Barack Obama announced a comprehensive new strategy for Afghanistan on 27 March 2009. This recognises that a military victory is unattainable. It adopts a regional approach, focusing more intensively on Pakistan, and opens the way to negotiate with...

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Peru: the struggle for memory, Kelly Phenicie Lisa Laplante

The conviction of Peru's former president Alberto Fujimori on 7 April 2009 for ordering killings and kidnappings during his decade of rule (1990-2000) is a landmark event in the country's search for justice over the crimes and violations...

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1984 riots haunt Congress, Richa Bansal

Following the flinging of a shoe at the Home Minister P. Chidambaram by a Sikh journalist and massive protests by Sikhs across Punjab spilling over to the streets of Delhi, the Congress was forced to ask Jagdish Tytler and Sajjan Kumar to...

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A foreign policy short of ideas, Aaradhana Jhunjhunwala

India's immediate neighborhood comprises of countries that are becoming increasingly politically unstable. While the problems of Pakistan and Afghanistan make it to the headlines of newspapers worldwide, these two countries are not the only...

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The SWISH Report (14), Paul Rogers

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Sri Lanka’s displaced: in a vice, Meenakshi Ganguly

After Sri Lankan army forces overran parts of the last stretch of territory held by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) on 1 April 2009, a statement from the defence ministry in Colombo announced that they had found the bodies of over...

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