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A Union in Peril
An election season clears. The excitement of change with President Obama’s reelection settles. China’s once-a-decade power transition remains stable following the Bo Xilai affair. Attention returns to the old continent, as ...
Calls for independence gain momentum in Europe
Early in 2012, British Prime Minister David Cameron surprised everybody by agreeing to hold a referendum for Scottish independence before the end of his mandate. A few weeks ago, Alexander Salmond, the leader of the Scottish Na...
Daily News Roundup – 8 November 2012
Europe UK to end financial aid for ex-colony India The Minister for international development announced today that the UK’s aid to India programme would be phased out and cut off by 2015. Justine Greening said that the cut wo...
Daily News Roundup – 9 November 2012
Asia Chinese Premier transition begins The Communist Party congress began today, with the Chinese President Hu Jintao beginning the transfer of power at the end of the ten-year term. The congress will take a week to unveil the ...
Rwanda-DR Congo Rebel Support Conflict: The Heart of the Matter
In his book “Politics”, Aristotle argued that man is a political animal, whose motive for action and reaction is ruled by need for wealth, safety and liberty. Aristotle goes on to argue that any state is like a united commu...
A Mutual Split: Turkey and the EU
Orhan Pamuk’s article, “Europe is turning away from Turkey, and the rest of the world”, pleas for a Europe which engages with Turkey on the basis of enlightenment principles, rather than old-fashioned notions of Islamic e...
