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...

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 (...)

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A time of angry strongmen

by Serge Halimi

The exchange of compliments was unexpected. Last December, Russia’s president Vladimir Putin indicated a preference for Donald Trump, one of the leading candidates in the US Republican Party presidential primaries, calling him “really brilliant (...)

Why Moscow championed the creation of Israel

by Gabriel Gorodetsky

The myth of the Hutus and Tutsis  *

by Gérard Prunier

Dutch prisons keep an eye on the money  *

by Léa Ducré and Margot Hemmerich

France’s Afghan fundamentalist heroes  *

by Denis Souchon

China rewrites the global rules

by Philip S Golub

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Iran’s ambitious women * — Life after sanctions * — Burundi isn’t Rwanda * — Great Lakes timeline * — Demonstration model for the ‘democratic deficit’ * — Unholy politics of India’s far right — Killing people to save cows * — Sentenced to below minimum wages * — Argentina’s liberal gender law *

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