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Venezuela: Revolution In Flux , Ivan Briscoe A couple of months before Latin America followed Wall Street into the whirlpools, Venezuela was experimenting with a curious, unnoticed and utterly revolutionary version of financial meltdown. "It is our resolve to keep on helping Argentina", beamed President Hugo Chávez as he placed his signature on the dotted line. Ivan Briscoe is senior researcher at the Fundacion para las Relaci... |
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Iraq’s Gift To Afghanistan, Paul Rogers In mid-November 2001, a little over seven years ago, the war to terminate the Taliban regime in Afghanistan was nearing its end. The Taliban militias had vacated Kabul almost overnight and most of them were dispersing across the south and east of the country, as well as across the border into western Pakistan. Paul Rogers is professor of peace studies at Bradford University, northern England. ... |
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Georgia And Russia: The Aftermath , Donald Rayfield The Georgia-Russia war of 8-12 August 2008 has left a host of issues unresolved. The future of the contested territories of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, the resettlement of the expelled and displaced, the fate of Georgia's aspiration to join Nato, and the ambitions of an emboldened Russia are just a few. The bitter fallout of a vicious conflict means that it will be some time before the long... |
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Evo And Bolivia: The Next Campaign , John Crabtree President Evo Morales of Bolivia is now able to prepare for a referendum in January 2009 on the country's new constitution, following a historic deal with the centre-right congressional opposition on 21 October 2008 which enabled the document to win acceptance. To secure this agreement involved the president making significant concessions. But it is not yet clear if this flexibility will end ... |
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DR Congo: Dynamic Of Conflict, Gérard Prunier Since August 2008 the situation in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has grown progressively worse in ways that seem hard to understand. An overview of the events and processes that led to the resurgence of conflict, however, can explain what is happening and what kind of intervention can contribute to resolving it. Gérard Prunier is research professor at the University of Pa... |
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Democracy Support: Where Now?, Vidar Helgesen Even international civil servants not given tothe expression of overtly political sentiments can find themselves moved by adisplay of public and democratic affirmation. Such was the case around midnighton 4 November 2008, when I found myself in a gathering crowd outside the WhiteHouse - a crowd that was wildly celebrating the imminent election of BarackObama as the next president of the United Sta... |
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Thailand’s Southern Fix, John Virgoe The return to democracy in Thailand following the military overthrow of the populist prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra in September 2006 has been messy. In the second half of 2008, the country's polity has been riven by a deepening political crisis which has pitted the government (now led by Somchai Wongsawat, and sympathetic to Thaksin) against much of Bangkok's middle-class and the coun... |
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Philanthrocapitalism: Old Myths, New Realities , Michael Edwards "Light the blue touch-paper and wait for the fireworks": that just about sums up the response to my book Just Another Emperor? The Myths and Realities of Philanthrocapitalism since its publication in March 2008. Not that I'm complaining. The book was written to stimulate debate about the increasing influence of business on philanthropy and it has done that pretty well - aided and ab... |
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Let Obama Be Obama , Godfrey Hodgson "Let Reagan be Reagan!"Â That was the slogan of Ronald Reagan's conservative followers. They were afraid that their leader's sharp ideological thrust was being blunted by timidity and moderation. The shrewder among them were also aware that, while a president of the United States is very powerful, he is not omnipotent.Godfrey Hodgson was director of the Reuters' Foundation ... |
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G20's World: Join A Group Read , Tony Curzon Price The G20 communique from their November 15th Washington meeting is reproduced below. Join me in doing a group read/comment of the text. Is it what we need from our leaders? Are the principles right? What is missing? What should we think of what they are saying? To join in, follow these steps: 1) get a diigo account 2) join the oD-G20-communique group 3) start using diigo to add notes and comm... |
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The End Of Exclusion, Larry Elliott Despite all the pre-match hype, the gathering of the G20 in Washington on 15 November 2008 was never going to be a second Bretton Woods, the 1944 conference that laid the foundations for the international economic order of the postwar era. The first Bretton Woods took two and a half years to prepare and was dominated by the United States. Countries have had barely a month to prepare for the eve... |
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Brazil: Democracy As Balance, Arthur Ituassu The test of a democracy's health is what happens at levels beneath that of presidents, overseas observers and international media. That at least is one possible conclusion to be drawn from the two-round municipal elections held in Brazil on 5 October and 26 October 2008. When the results were announced by the country's supreme electoral court, it was clear that the contest over Brazil'... |
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Russia's Political Direction, Boris Dolgin Extending the constitutional terms At the heart of the recent message from the President of Russia to the Federal Assembly was the peripheral, but unsuccessful, initiative to alter the constitutional term of the Duma. It featured alongside the highly significant (for foreign policy) but no more successful initiative to respond to the deployment of American ABMs in Europe. It is clear that... |
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South Ossetia: Fear And Loathing, Varvara Parkhomenko Over a month has gone by since the withdrawal of Russian troops from the so-called ‘buffer zone' - a strip several dozen kilometers wide which separates the territory of South Ossetia from the rest of Georgia. There is probably no one who can mark the precise border of this zone - not in Georgia, Ossetia or in Russia. But you can tell where it is because of the burnt houses, the ruins, and... |
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Obama: A Russian View, Boris Dolgin The results of the US presidential elections always draw worldwide attention. This time it was positive. There was none of the usual resentment of the fact that the president of a country which in many respects determines the way the world is run is only elected by the population of that country. American sympathies clearly coincided with those of people in most other countries. The mass anti... |
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