Current issue: October 2015

… Syria’s nearby refugees; Corbyn, Labour’s lightning rod; Japan, what next for Okinawa? China’s modern-day emperor; UN, getting fit for the 21st century; Ivan Maisky remembered; Disneyland, behind the fantasy; streaming wars; Zapata westerns; Mercator supplement…

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Diverse and adverse faces of progress

by Wole Soyinka

This article is taken from a speech entitled “Development and Progress in Africa as a Political Reality” delivered by Wole Soyinka during the Conference on the Notion of Progress in the Diversity of World Cultures organized, in particular, by the (...)

A historic turning point

by James Wolfensohn

I acknowledge that new geopolitical paradigms as well as population growth have a major impact on major future economic policies. In this last year our planet had 7.2 billion people, whereas there were fewer than 1 billion in 1930. By 2050, it (...)

Two hundred years of silence

by Ashis Nandy

The Disney cult  *

by Pierre Souchon

Once upon a time in Italy  *

by Daniel Paris-Clavel

The Maisky diaries

by Gabriel Gorodetsky and Ivan Maïsky

The unspun Jeremy Corbyn

by Alex Nunns

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A science-based notion of progress — Progress, regress and human rights — The importance of inclusivness for the notion of progress – a word from India — The false allure of women’s “progress” — The notion of progress in the cosmological and religious traditions of Africa — Big media versus the people — Aid but not refuge — Neighbouring states * — UN beyond the veto * — Okinawa as sacrificial victim * — Xi, Shaolin monk — and emperor * — A West Bank day * — Music on demand * — Reflections on progress — The two humanisms — Latin American paths of development — Markets, morals and civic life — A global dialogue of cultures — Support for this project

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