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Brazil: democracy vs poverty, Arthur Ituassu What is Strategy 31?, Maryana Torocheshnikova Europe's butterfly effect, Fabrizio Tassinari The AfPak war via WikiLeaks , Paul Rogers Lawfair, Andy Hull Kosovo, law and politics, Engjellushe Morina Myanmar’s 2010 elections: a human rights perspective, Benjamin Zawacki Summer days at the dacha, Elena Strelnikova
Brazil: democracy vs poverty, Arthur Ituassu Democracy and politics are winning the war against poverty in Brazil. A report published on 22 July 2010 by the Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada (IPEA) - Brazil’s federal economic-research institute - reveals striking detail on the... Read more » What is Strategy 31?, Maryana Torocheshnikova Strategy-31 is a spontaneous civic movement which, since 31 July 2009, has regularly held protest meetings in defence of freedom of assembly in Russia. They are held on the 31st day of every month which has 31 days. In Moscow they take place... Read more » Europe's butterfly effect, Fabrizio Tassinari According to chaos theory, the butterfly effect refers to those tiny events leading to major, long-term variations in a system. The metaphor provides a moderately optimistic outlook for Europe’s influence in the 21st century world: any lasting... Read more » The AfPak war via WikiLeaks , Paul Rogers The evidence and the sense of escalating violence and increasing insecurity in Afghanistan are reinforced by the WikiLeaks project's circulation on 25 July 2010 of voluminous official communications and reports about the United States's... Read more » Lawfair, Andy Hull Almost a decade on from 9/11, the chickens of the War on Terror are coming home to roost. Law suits against the government and its agencies – of which Binyam Mohamed’s is the highest profile – allege UK complicity in torture. The cases swirl... Read more » Kosovo, law and politics, Engjellushe Morina The long-awaited decision by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on 22 July 2010 came as good news for the people of Kosova (Kosovo). In offering its non-binding opinion in a case that had been brought by Serbia following the Kosova... Read more » Myanmar’s 2010 elections: a human rights perspective, Benjamin Zawacki Later this year Myanmar will hold its first national elections since 1990, when the National League for Democracy, led by Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, won a resounding victory but was denied the opportunity to take office. In the two decades since that... Read more » Summer days at the dacha, Elena Strelnikova “Ma-ma, mam, ma-ma…” My youngest daughter, furious at being put to bed for a rest, is practising sounds under the blanket. She can hear the older girls outside, whispering to each other in a carefree way, and is probably cursing... Read more »