Andrew Jennings, 8 December 2008

Sport – Globalisation’s Hidden Persuader
General Electric’s engines power the jets that bomb civilians in Iraq. The company also funds the International Olympic Committee and ...
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Professor Sevket Pamuk, 24 November 2008

Turkey at the crossroads
Turkey straddles the continents of Europe and Asia, and controls the entrance to the Black Sea, a position that gives ...
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Professor R. Kandiyoti, 27 October 2008

The Geopolitics of piping Natural Gas to Europe: Nabucco, South Stream or the trans-Caspian?
Already a net energy importer, Europe needs more natural gas in the coming decades. The increasingly tense relationship with Russia ...
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Ann Pettifor, 13 October 2008

The Credit Crunch and the Financial Markets
We are all affected by the so-called ‘credit crunch’ triggered last year by the bursting of the US housing bubble, ...
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Malcolm Shepherd, 29 September 2008

Food versus/and fuel
The production of biofuels from agriculture to replace fossil fuels was originally widely applauded, but concerns over the displacement of ...
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Geshe (Dr) Tashi Tsering, 15 September 2008

Tibet: The country, its refugees and Government in exile
There has been widespread dismay over the recent brutal suppression of protesting Buddhist Monks in both Tibet and Burma, with ...
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Charlie Beckett, 19 May 2008

Saving Journalism So It Can Save The World
The world needs a 'good' news media to explain the conflicts, threats and opportunities that globalisation offers. And yet quality ...
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Bruce Kent, 12 May 2008

Nuclear Weapons, Abolition Now
Bruce Kent will talk about his belief that the threat caused by nuclear arms did not disappear with the end ...
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Mark Mackinnon, 21 April 2008

How we got back to the Cold War
Mark Mackinnon led the foreign press corps in reporting on the Western efforts to undermine Vladimir Putin and the new ...
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Sir Hilary Synnott, 7 April 2008

Bad days in Basra: A Turbulent time as Britain’s Man in Southern Iraq
Sir Hilary Synnott was Britain's most senior representative in Southern Iraq, trying to keep the region together as the rest ...
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Charles Abugre, 31 March, 2008

Is Asia the new African plunderer?
Direct investment in Africa by Asian economies has been increasing sharply in recent years, and unconditional loans and technical cooperation ...
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Richard Belfield, 17 March 2008

Assassination: The not so secret weapon
Political assassinations have a profound effect, changing the course of history – though often not in ways the plotters imagine ...
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Dr Julia Buxton, 3 March 2008

Venezuela under Chavez: dictatorship or model for radical democracy?
The Chavez administration has evolved from an initially moderate position advocating Blair’s model of ‘Third Way Socialism’, to the more ...
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Zaki Chehab, 21 January, 2008

Understanding Hamas
What is the real nature of Hamas? How 'Islamic' are they? What personalities lie beneath the black and green uniforms? ...
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