Introduction – Issue 43/44 ‘Making Modernity: From the Mashriq to the Maghreb’
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The recent wave of revolutions across the Arab world has brought to the surface the contradictions in popular understandings of the Middle East and North Africa. The place of the region in the global history of modernity has been unsettled yet again…
Here We Go Again, by Paul Barratt
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In this desperately complex situation, the nature and extent of Australian involvement is effectively in the hands of just three people—Prime Minister Tony Abbott, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop, and Defence Minister David Johnston …
Arena Publications Podcast #1: Interview With Prof. Richard Falk (16/09/13)
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An interview with Professor Richard Falk, Albert G. Milbank Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University, Visiting Distinguished Professor in Global and International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara and United Nations Special Rapporteur on Palestinian human rights.
Salt Responds
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Much of what Firas Massouh, Yoni Molad and Steve Pascoe write in response to my article is based on assumptions about how I think and how I frame events which have no relationship to how I do think or frame events.
Afghanistan: Gift or Grand Conceit?
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It is beyond most Westerners to understand today how offers of democracy are really much more than this: there is a widespread incapacity to grasp the social assumptions embedded in our ‘gifts’ writes John Hinkson
Israel and Iran : The Call of the Abyss
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How can the West resolve the stand-off over nuclear power while preserving its own ways of living and promoting liberty, asks John Hinkson