Saturday, 26 September 2009

Joined-up piping, David B Roberts

A Qatar-Turkey-EU gas pipeline could become an important part of Europe's and the Gulf's energy infrastructure. The interdependence created by networks like these should be celebrated

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Turkey and Qatar have announced that they are...

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Beijing’s credibility crisis, Li Datong

The People's Republic of China (PRC) was declared on 1 October 1949. The authorities seek to hold an especially large celebration on every tenth anniversary. This is carefully designed to give the people the illusion of possessing strength and...

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Science funding: what would Patocka say?, Darian Meacham

The philosopher Jan Patočka is something of a national hero in the Czech Republic, and deservedly so. A teacher of Vaclav Havel, he was, in addition to one of the most important Central-European thinkers of the twentieth century, a martyr to the...

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