China’s Tiananmen moment: the party rules, Kerry Brown
Zhao Ziyang was the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party when the student demonstrations in Beijing that reached their tragic denoument on the night of 3-4 June 1989 took place. He was the most senior figure to lose his position as a...
What Obama must say (and do) in Egypt, Nader Hashemi
President Barack Obama will deliver a long-awaited speech on relations between the United States and the Muslim world in Egypt on 4 June 2009. From the outset, the venue has been subject to speculation and debate. Muslim pro-democracy activists...
Europe lost and found, Gisela Stuart
A Chinese politician once told me that there are two ways of governing, which can be compared to running a restaurant by periodically changing either the party in power (i.e. the cook, as in the west) or the policies (i.e. the menu, as in China)....
Unlocking the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict , Alexander Goryanin
Azerbaijan and Armenia have been the subject of discussion and commentary more frequently than usual since the beginning of this year. Observers have once again decided that a conclusion to the Karabakh conflict is close: there is already a...
Lost and Found in Russia - by Susan Richards , openDemocracy
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