Current issue: April 2012

France, election time; Syria deadlocked; Nigeria and Boko Haram; Mali coup further fragilises the Sahel; the Sahara’s long struggle; where microcredit went wrong; Portugal’s school for austerity; special report: can the West reindustrialise? Nepal’s blocked revolution; global cities of the Levant; before the Big Bang…and more…

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We are all Levantines now

by Philip Mansel

The Levant, with its eastern Mediterranean trading cities that flourished thanks to the Franco-Ottoman alliance, was an economic and diplomatic experiment that pioneered a way of life all the world now (...)

Deadlock over Syria

by Alain Gresh

The Syrian people, like the Egyptians and others across the Arab world, are reviving the desires and ambitions that they abandoned after the Arab defeat in the 1967 war. The outcome, and who will influence it, can’t be (...)

Disputed territory  *

by Olivier Quarante

Does it matter where the factories are?  *

by Gérard Duménil and Dominique Lévy

Before the Big Bang  *

by Aurélien Barrau
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