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Iran returns to the world
Bernard Hourcade
, February 2018
Iran moderated its Islamic aims to secure a strong regional position: it needs to open up to the world and fix its economy so ordinary Iranians, and most especially the young, can realise their (...)
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Useful idiots of the Pentagon
Serge Halimi
, February 2018
Democrats and Republicans in Washington agree on one thing at least: the need to fight Russia. In their view, Vladimir Putin believes the US lacks the resolve to defend its allies; he is also trying to (...)
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The end of the UN’s world order ?
Anne-Cécile Robert
, February 2018
The current chaos began in the 1990s, when the 1945 UN charter was overridden by a new interventionist ideology.
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Palestine’s pent-up young
Akram Belkaïd
&
Olivier Pironet
, February 2018
The young are the Palestinians’ demographic majority; most are over-educated and unemployed, and they are almost as disenchanted with their own authorities as with (...)
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February
2018
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Iran
reinvents itself;
Palestine
’s young speak out; smalltown
America
’s drug crisis;
China
, GM rice on the sly;
UN
, end of the old order?
Germany
’s industrial empire;
Netherlands
, separatism no one wants;
Japan
, plight of the tuna;
Harvey
who? Where eagles dare…
Hypocrite at the good cause parties
Thomas Frank
, February 2018
Why did the disgraced movie producer fundraise and cheerlead for decades for progressive (...)
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Germany builds an industrial empire
Pierre Rimbert
, February 2018
Even before the fall of the Berlin Wall, Germany used the European system to ‘nearshore’ (...)
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China’s GM rice paddies
Zhang Zhulin
, February 2018
Most Chinese don’t want to eat GM rice, but they may not get the choice, as more goes on the market without official acknowledgement.
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The lesson of Kosovo
A.-C. R.
, February 2018
Twenty years on, the Kosovo conflict still causes controversy among the major powers, especially the US and Russia, which often cites the 1991 NATO intervention to justify its own in Crimea or Georgia. (...)
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Belgium, dismantled by stealth
Paul Dirkx
, February 2018
Most Belgians, both Dutch and French speakers, don’t want their country partitioned, but the Flemish separatist party now in power is working round that.
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Last on the rope
Philippe Descamps
, February 2018
The real spirit of mountaineering isn’t about who’s first on the rope or who reaches the top first. It’s about mutual support and making sure that everybody gets a fair turn at (...)
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Smalltown America gets lethally addicted
Maxime Robin
, February 2018
US doctors were offered a wonder drug for pain relief 20 years ago, and the superstrength, highly addictive opioids are now a national crisis.
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Religious concessions in Saudi Arabia
Nabil Mouline
, 5 January 2018
Wahhabi clerics will adapt (a little) and work round Muhammad Bin Salman’s intention to modernise his kingdom, as they have done in the past. Does the rapid rise of Prince Muhammad (...)
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Denounce your teacher
Anne Vigna
, 30 November 2017
Secondary school occupations, demanding more resources for education, polarised Brazil in 2016. At one point affecting up to a thousand schools, they were supported by trade unions (...)
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Yemen’s dangerous war
Laurent Bonnefoy
, 30 November 2017
Saudi meddling in regional politics and its intervention in Yemen is destabilising the Middle East, and pushing the country into sickness and starvation. Yemen has been engulfed (...)
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Transatlantic relations in the Trump age
2 November 2017
Former US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Amanda Sloat, Anne-Cécile Robert, director of international editions at Le Monde diplomatique, author Romuald Sciora and James Kirchick of (...)
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maps
Japan’s bluefin tuna
Agnès Stienne, January 2018
Iran’s far-reaching Shia networks
Cécile Marin, January 2018
Yemen: humanitarian disaster of Saudi intervention
Cécile Marin, December 2017
Israel’s quest for influence in Africa
Cécile Marin, December 2017
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Iranians have given up on reforms
C. E.
, 2 January 2018
When hundreds of people took to the streets on Thursday 28 December in Mashhad, Iran’s second largest city, to protest against economic woes and government corruption, they caught (...)
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A Harvey Weinstein moment for America’s wars?
Andrew J. Bacevich
, 13 December 2017
What makes a Harvey Weinstein moment? The now-disgraced Hollywood mogul is hardly the first powerful man to stand accused of having abused women. The Harveys who preceded Harvey (...)
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Getting people out of trouble
Alex Randall
, 30 November 2017
Last year 23 million people were forced from their homes by disasters linked to the weather and climate change. As the planet warms (which inevitably it will) this number will (...)
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We still need human intelligence
Chris Spannos
, 21 November 2017
‘I’m always happy to be surrounded by smart people, who also happen to be rich and powerful,’ Sophia the robot said late October in an emotive appeal to investors at Saudi Arabia’s (...)
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Podcasts
Dominique Vidal on the routes to radicalisation
26 January 2018
Julien Brygo on India’s vast army of servants
11 December 2017
Laura Raim on Israel’s control over women’s lives
9 November 2017
Gabriel Gorodetsky on the early years of Soviet foreign policy
20 October 2017
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