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Midnight in Belgrade, dusk in Brussels, Goran Fejic Mao Zedong in video-history's gaze, Temtsel Hao EU 2.0: towards sustainable integration, Kalypso Nicolaïdis Bomb attack in Uganda kills 64 people, Jamie Munn Head of UN Lebanon force calls for calm, Oliver Scanlan oD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of July 12, 2010, Charles Shaw BBC governance: widening faultlines strengthen the case for a commission of inquiry, David Elstein
Midnight in Belgrade, dusk in Brussels, Goran Fejic Almost two decades ago, the violent disintegration of the former Yugoslavia was about to begin and the then European Community was testing its emerging “soft power” by projecting onto the virulent nationalisms of the Balkans its own claimed... Read more » Mao Zedong in video-history's gaze, Temtsel Hao Yuan Tengfei, a 38-year old Beijing middle-school history-teacher, has become both a high-profile and a controversial figure in China’s online public discourse - called the “best history teacher" by his fans, a traitor to his nation and state by... Read more » EU 2.0: towards sustainable integration, Kalypso Nicolaïdis At a time when Athens is in turmoil, Berlin in angst, London in retreat, and the euro dissolving, the continent's predicament leads us back to a familiar question: what future can and should Europe create? Are there alternatives to the... Read more » Bomb attack in Uganda kills 64 people, Jamie Munn Two synchronised bombs have seen at least 64 people killed in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, in an attack that is suspected to have been carried out by the Somali militant Islamic group, al-Shabaab, which has links with al-Qaeda. Ugandan police are... Read more » Head of UN Lebanon force calls for calm, Oliver Scanlan Major General Asarta Cuevas, the head of the United Nations peace keeping force in southern Lebanon, has written an open letter to the residents of the region appealing for calm. The letter comes in the wake of several acrimonious confrontations... Read more » oD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of July 12, 2010, Charles Shaw We begin this week's round-up with devastating news from Oakland, CA. On Thursday, July 9th, the Bay Area erupted when Johannes Mehserle, a former BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) police officer, was essentially acquitted of murder in the January... Read more » BBC governance: widening faultlines strengthen the case for a commission of inquiry, David Elstein The electrifying first session of our public service broadcasting symposium on 10 June takes on even greater resonance in a week that has seen the publication of a series of key BBC documents and a major speech from the chairman of the BBC Trust,... Read more »