Nepal’s peace process following the civil war of 1996-2006 tends to be described by international experts as a homegrown affair. Those experts directly involved in it have often expressed such a judgment at turning-points in the process. For... As might be expected from a peer group that has risen from its largely rural origins to bestride the world of letters, the accolades and anecdotes that followed the death on 31 January 2010 of Argentine author Tomás Eloy Martínez were justifiably... A short while ago, I was invited by the veteran presenter and journalist, Josep Cuní to appear in a debate on Catalonia's TV3. The topic, occasioned by controversy about hostile coverage in the British journal the Economist, was the... When I turned to the BBC’s World news website on 30 May, expecting to see how the local elections in Georgia were progressing, it was with some trepidation. Tbilisi held its first ever direct elections to the post of Mayor of Tbilisi – one of... On May 30 Mikhail Saakashvili's United National Movement (UNM) won a decisive victory in Georgia's first elections since the August war with Russia. Governments around the world have congratulated President Saakashvili on his party's... Last year I tried in an article at Next Left, later revised for the New Statesman, to map the main new ideological currents in British politics, in particular those influencing debate amongst self-defined ‘progressives’. How far does the map I...www.opendemocracy.net Latest articles from openDemocracy...
Wednesday, 9 June 2010
Nepal: Maoists' lock, India's door, Manjushree Thapa
Tomás Eloy Martínez and the Argentine dream, Ivan Briscoe
Barcelona i Catalunya: the real thing , Fred Halliday
Georgia's Promising Elections, Denis MacShane
Georgia's Muddled Elections, Jakub Parusinski
Where does the Coalition stand on the new ideological map?, Stuart White
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