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Africa
Mandela Syndrome: Fear for South Africa
June 28, 2013How will the Mandela legacy be shaped? Rarely does the illness of human being reflect the illness of a nation. [...]
China
What You Should Know About the Russian-Chinese Energy Deal
June 1, 2014The Russian-Chinese energy deal concluded on May 21 has been treated as an ominous development for various powerhouses of the [...]Xi Jinping’s Southern Tour Signals Self-Confidence and Rift with Jiang
January 23, 2013Signs of ongoing factional realignment continue to surface after the conclusion of the 18th Party Congress. As China’s new [...]
Latin America
The Populist Socialist: Hugo Chávez and his Legacy
March 6, 2013Chavismo might have stuttered, but it hasn’t had its day. “From the river Plate to the mouths of the Orinoco [...]
Russia
What You Should Know About the Russian-Chinese Energy Deal
June 1, 2014The Russian-Chinese energy deal concluded on May 21 has been treated as an ominous development for various powerhouses of the [...]The Travails of Gangster Capitalism: The Passing of Boris Berezovsky
March 23, 2013Everything about the labyrinthine world of oligarchs tends to happen in “unexplained” circumstances. Their lives and their [...]
South Asia
The BJP Landslide: Modi’s Proposed Revolution
May 17, 2014Personality cults of any sort are to be feared, though Modi will reveal, in time, whether cult and behavior match. [...]
Syria
The Syrian Opposition Against Itself
July 14, 2013The backers in the west, who braid their cause with outrage and valor in favor of that mystical notion of [...]Jihadi Tourism Against Assad
April 17, 2013The tourism of global conflict is a market governments would prefer did not exist. Governments that have to face the [...]Syrian Moral Hierarchies
March 20, 2013Since March 2011, the Syrian Revolution received relatively minor support from political and human rights activists, compared [...]
United States
President Trump Exploits NYT Op-Ed To Distract Americans
September 18, 2018The Trump presidency has proven to be a set of publicity driven punctuations and blows, riddled with distractions contrived and [...]Irresistible: Espionage, Dissent and NGOs
April 13, 2014The NSA is far from the only organization engaged in the business of spying on activist groups and NGOs. Edward [...]Partition in Afghanistan May Kill Pakistan
July 17, 2013As the fog of weariness over the war in Afghanistan grows thicker, some political analysts advocate the partition of Afghanistan. [...]