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Turkey’s referendum: a democratic dynamic, Gunes Murat Tezcur

Turkey’s constitutional referendum on 12 September 2010 saw a clear majority of voters endorsing a set of amendments proposed by the Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi (Justice & Development Party / AKP) government. The reward of this government’s...

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China and Tony Blair: the wealth circuit, Kerry Brown

The Shanghai summer of 2010 was so hot and steaming that even Shanghainese complained about it. But close behind as conversation topic for many in the city, at least when confronted with a visitor from the United Kingdom, is the lucrative exploits...

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Sudan: prospect and lesson, Richard Cockett

Sudan, Africa’s largest country by land-mass, is about to disappear. Or rather, to put it less dramatically, in all likelihood the country will soon cease to exist in its present form. In a referendum due in January 2011, the 8 million or so...

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Don't get me wrong, Mr Travin!, Mary Dejevsky

I would like to respond to Dmitri Travin’s demolition of my article about Valentina Matviyenko – and in so doing respond to the many, many other Russians who have objected to various aspects of the piece.

First, in general. If I had...

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