France’s monarch-president: overstepping it?, Patrice de Beer
France's founding republican myth and democratic self-image is belied by its people's enduring fixation with the many powerful leaders who have ruled the country: among them Louis XIV, Napoleon I and III, Général Charles de Gaulle,...
What is UK’s future as Scottish nationalists rise?, Gerry Hassan
In a series of four newly commissioned essays to mark the opening of the SNP's Annual Conference in Inverness, the party's 75th anniversary and the publication of the first ever study of the contemporary party, ‘The Modern SNP: From...
Iran: how can Obama deliver?, Mariano Aguirre
The award of the Nobel peace prize to Barack Obama on 9 October 2009 is widely understood not as a reward for actual achievement during his first nine months in office but as a declaration of belief in his potential to achieve a resolution of...
PKK members take steps to bolster Turkish reforms, Geraint Rees
A group of Kurdish separatist fighters and supporters surrendered themselves to the Turkish army on Monday in a gesture of rebel support for government plans to expand Kurdish rights.
The group, which consisted of eight fighters from the
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