China and Liu Xiaobo: the weakness of strength,
Summary: The Beijing government’s punishment of a rights activist casts a sombre light on its inner character, says Kerry Brown. The Chinese writer and prominent legal activist Liu... Spain, Europe and the world: Zapatero’s moment,
Summary: Spain’s tenure of the European Union’s presidency is a rare opportunity for its prime minister to make his mark on the international stage, says Guy Hedgecoe. Somaliland: time of trial,
Summary: A relatively stable statelet in the Horn of Africa needs wise international intervention to bolster its nascent democracy, says EJ Hogendoorn. The... A soldier’s tale (2): trying to blend in,
Summary: In this second letter home our new conscript Tolya is starting to settle in to his two-year stint in Russia’s army. He tells us about the food and how he has learnt to avoid being beaten... Fishkin on deliberative democracy,
Fishkin, James, When the People Speak: Deliberative Democracy and Public Consultation, Oxford University Press, 2009 James Fishkin, who is masterminding POWER 2010’s deliberative assembly in London this weekend ( Bush to Obama: a toxic legacy,
Summary: A series of intelligence failures that stretch from Afghanistan to the American heartland reveals the depth of the United States’s strategic predicament at the dawn of 2010. From Copenhagen to Flopenhagen through Hopenhagen ,
Summary: Viking negotiation style, stalling working groups, a farcical finale. Is there anything positive that came out of COP15? The Copenhagen Conference of Parties (COP15) held from... Is shopping all bad?,
When we shop are we exercising our freedom? Or are we more like prisoners exercising in the yard under supervision? Is the consumer market a realm of democracy, or of oligarchy that subordinates us... North Korea wants formal peace treaty in return for disarmament,
Summary: North Korea offers disarmament talks if US ends sanctions. New wave of attacks on Malaysian churches. Violence continues between political factions in Karachi. Sudan dismisses warnings of renewed... Detroit plot triggers US intelligence shake-up,
Summary: President Obama unveils new reforms of the US security bureaucracy in the wake of a White House report criticising intelligence failures linked to the attempted Christmas Day bombing. A leading... |
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