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Cambodia: surviving the Khmer Rouge, , Var Hong Ashe openDemocracy - Latest articles from openDemocracy Cambodia: surviving the Khmer Rouge, , Var Hong Ashe Bahareh Hedayat and the heroes of Iran, Nasrin Alavi Brazil’s election: politics and personalities, Leslie Bethell Cyprus: local perception, European illusion , Hubert Faustmann Parallel paths: radicalisation and terrorism, Daniel-Joseph MacArthur-Seal Has Clegg Hung 'em? , Anthony Barnett If It Quacks Then It’s a Duck, Keith Sutherland Could Abkhazia be smothered by its new best friend?, Oliver Bullough Impossible bedfellows: civil-military cooperation through NATO's eyes, Gloria Martinez The nuclear-weapons risk, Paul Rogers Cambodia: surviving the Khmer Rouge, , Var Hong Ashe I was born and raised in the small south-east Asian country of Cambodia, and brought up in the town of Takeo, south of the capital Phnom Penh. Cambodia was then ruled by King Norodom Sihanouk, and in its first years of independence from French... Read more » Bahareh Hedayat and the heroes of Iran, Nasrin Alavi “Unity” is a word that Iran’s hardline elite uses a great deal these days. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s televised address on 21 March 2010 on the occasion of nowrooz (Persian new year) was typical, in its reference to “the unity and solidarity of... Read more » Roof Repair Does your roof need repairing? Let the experts fix the damage! Click now. Brazil’s election: politics and personalities, Leslie Bethell On 3 October 2010, more than 100 million Brazilians will vote in Brazil’s sixth presidential election since the end of the twenty-one-year military dictatorship in 1985 – all of them free, fair and, for the first time in Brazilian history, based... Read more » Cyprus: local perception, European illusion , Hubert Faustmann “The view of some in the Greek Cypriot political arena that a European solution is on the cards is unwise and shows their ignorance of the European Union […] I’m afraid that, from the very beginning, many Greek Cypriots have regarded the... Read more » Parallel paths: radicalisation and terrorism, Daniel-Joseph MacArthur-Seal I've just been reading Demos' latest report, 'The edge of violence', on radicalisation and terrorism in Canada and Europe. Its authors, Jamie Bartlett, Jonathan Birdwell and Michael King, have made a significant contribution... Read more » Has Clegg Hung 'em? , Anthony Barnett Nick Clegg’s breakthrough was stunning. It was not so much what he said (although in an enervating exchange on immigration at least he said there is "good immigration") as the way he said it and the aura he radiated. The other two were locked in... Read more » If It Quacks Then It’s a Duck, Keith Sutherland Any lingering doubts over whether or not UK governance has entered a ‘presidential’ phase were dispelled by last night’s televised debate. As a result of a relatively anodyne exchange the bookies shortened their odds on a hung parliament or... Read more » Could Abkhazia be smothered by its new best friend?, Oliver Bullough Before Vladislav Ardzinba died on March 4, the academic who led Abkhazia to freedom from Georgia surely reflected on his life’s work with great satisfaction. Map of Abkhazia. Russia recognised the independence of this little Black Sea state in... Read more » Impossible bedfellows: civil-military cooperation through NATO's eyes, Gloria Martinez Speaking at the Strategic Concept Seminar in Helsinki last month, NATO’s Secretary General, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, said: “We need to open up the way we plan and run our operations to include the indispensable civilian expertise – from... Read more » The nuclear-weapons risk, Paul Rogers The nuclear-security summit in Washington on 12-13 April 2010, attended by forty-seven states, resulted in a four-point communiqué and seven-page work plan that outlined tasks to be achieved by 2014. The sense of progress was reinforced by the deal... Read more »