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Friday, 24 June 2011
Syria’s broken spring: a Damascus report, Vicken Cheterian
A seething revolt across much of Syria is being met with ferocious repression by the Ba’athist government’s security forces. But so far, the two cities where close to half of Syria’s population lives - Damascus and Aleppo - are...
Turkey’s election, and democracy's shadow, Gareth Jenkins
The third successive victory of Turkey’s ruling party confirms its domination of the country’s political landscape. But a close study of the AKP's evolving methods of rule reinforces grave doubts about the direction of Turkish...
Naming the movement, Keith Kahn-Harris
The early 21st century is marked by a profusion of initiatives that bring people together to discuss and explore big questions. It amounts to a great river of change - but to realise its potential the movement needs a formal designation,...
Cuba, politics in perspective, Antoni Kapcia
Where is Cuba heading more than a half-century after the revolution, and how is Raúl Castro's political strategy balancing the forces around and imperatives of reform? The long-postponed sixth congress of the governing party makes the...
Pakistan: the hard reality, Anatol Lieven
Pakistan is too often portrayed in flawed and reductive ways that flatten its complexity and offer misleading guidance to policy-makers. This makes it all the more important to acknowledge some difficult truths about the country, says Anatol...
Italy beyond Berlusconi: the "normal" solution, Geoff Andrews
Italy’s opposition has wounded Silvio Berlusconi. But it is still far from removing the prime minister - and even further from healing Italian democracy. Here, the case of Dominique Strauss-Kahn offers important lessons, says Geoff...
The foreign correspondent: James Cameron, 1911-85, David Hayes
A voice of wry observation and quiet authority that made humane sense of distant events to a domestic public helped James Cameron become the most respected international journalist in post-1945 Britain. But is there room for his...
Drone warfare: cost and challenge, Paul Rogers
The repositioning of the United States’s military strategy includes a great expansion in the use of armed-drones to attack targets in Pakistan and Yemen. But this development raises profound legal and ethical questions that are now...
Proposals for a 'voluntary' web-blocking scheme leaked, Peter Bradwell
Proposals for a ‘voluntary’ web-blocking scheme, put forward by a group of rightsholders, have allegedly been leaked from discussions with the UK minister for Communications, Culture and the Creative Industries
Rapprochement across the Taiwan Strait, Humayun Saleem
China and Taiwan seek to increase economic exchanges by allowing individuals to travel from Mainland China to Taiwan. Pakistani and Indian foreign secretaries are set to meet in Islamabad. Sudan and South Sudan reach Abeyi deal, and...
The Human Cost of "War on Drugs", Jimmy Kainja
50 years of criminalisation of drugs and 40 years of blatant failure of “war on drugs” has only made the problem worse. Policy makers must listen to the real victims: the people on the front lines
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