Current issue: February 2016

... Iran’s very modern women; Burundi’s near civil war; China’s rebalancing act; EU forgets democracy; India report Hindu far right’s hold on tribes, in the name of the cow; how the USSR backed Israel’s creation; Afghanistan, when jihadists were friends; Germany and Netherlands, prisoners’ tales; Argentina, trans are legal...

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China rewrites the global rules

by Philip S Golub

Despite worries over the end of the Chinese economic miracle and harder times because of the aftershocks of the 2008 financial crisis, global rebalancing is happening — and quickly.

Podcasts

Philip Golub on how China is rebalancing the world economy

In this programme Philip Golub, professor of international relations at the American University of Paris, in conversation with George Miller, says that “China’s transformation into a gravitational centre of the world capitalist economy means (...)

Sentenced to below minimum wages  *

by Gilles Bouvaist

Unholy politics of India’s far right

by Clea Chakraverty

Demonstration model for the ‘democratic deficit’  *

by Anne-Cécile Robert

Killing people to save cows  *

by Naïké Desquesnes

Iran’s ambitious women  *

by Florence Beaugé

And also ...

Life after sanctions * — Burundi isn’t Rwanda * — The myth of the Hutus and Tutsis * — Great Lakes timeline * — Why Moscow championed the creation of Israel — France’s Afghan fundamentalist heroes * — Dutch prisons keep an eye on the money * — Argentina’s liberal gender law * — A time of angry strongmen

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