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Just published Europe, America, Russia: history's tide, Rein Müllerson War's human cost: name before shame, John Sloboda Leszek Kolakowski: the quiet assassin, Roger Scruton Israel-Palestine: man, plan, outcome, Tony Klug Israeli settlement, Arab movement, Hazem Saghieh Who’s afraid of Silvio Berlusconi? , Geoff Andrews The tears flowed, Mumin Shakirov George Washington’s ghost, John M Carey

Europe, America, Russia: history's tide, Rein Müllerson Almost exactly six months after the inauguration of Barack Obama as the president of the United States, twenty-two politicians and intellectuals from nine countries in central and eastern Europe addressed an open letter to him and his new... Read more » War's human cost: name before shame, John Sloboda A detailed recording of the precise details of the casualties inflicted by modern wars is becoming an important part of the work of humanitarian groups across the world. Martin Shaw argues rightly that in order to identify the extent of the... Read more » Leszek Kolakowski: the quiet assassin, Roger Scruton A few weeks ago I was at a dinner in Bucharest, hosted by a small centre-right think-tank, at which the discussion focused on the continuing dominance in western universities of certain familiar styles of intellectual subversion: postmodernism,... Read more » Israel-Palestine: man, plan, outcome, Tony Klug "We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now" - Martin Luther King A succession of flawed peace initiatives has left the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on the verge of becoming irresolvable. The current political developments on both... Read more » Israeli settlement, Arab movement, Hazem Saghieh Any democrat would find it difficult to defend the insistence of Binyamin Netanyahu's government in Israel to hold on to the West Bank settlements. The form of politics the Israeli prime minister here advocates is crude, arrogant, impudent and... Read more » Who’s afraid of Silvio Berlusconi? , Geoff Andrews The exposure of Silvio Berlusconi's public-personal behaviour continues. The website of L'Espresso magazine has made available audio-tapes containing sordid details of the Italian prime minister's alleged overnight tryst with a... Read more » The tears flowed, Mumin Shakirov The death of actor Oleg Yankovsky has stunned Russians and caused a real shock among his fans. It is difficult to recall a time over the last 20-30 years when Russians have with such grief to the death of a famous artist. Ordinary viewers could not... Read more » George Washington’s ghost, John M Carey In the early hours of 28 June 2009, Manuel Zelaya was removed from the Honduran presidency and deported to Costa Rica by his own military. A month on, a key issue in the unfolding Honduran crisis remains Zelaya's ambition to change the Honduran... Read more »