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conflictsEven when guns are silent, the ideas behind them threaten. Warfare and conflict resolution urgently need to be explained, their causes clarified, and creative solutions explored.
A neglected dispute seems to resemble the Caucasus-Balkans - but close-up looks different
The serial blasts against Indian cities expose the infirmity of the country’s institutions
Pakistan’s military elite and its ostensible US-Nato allies are engaged in a different power-play
The hijacking of international vessels off the Horn of Africa reflects the world's neglect of Somalia
Twenty-one top scholars, experts and diplomats say: end the myths about Tehran, and open doors
The ripples of the vicious south Caucasus war continue. Plus: Fred Halliday on Armenia's trials
An eruption of war is rooted in the complex recent politics of an unsettled region
The currents of solidarity and fissure in the Caucasus mosaic elude Russia's control
The United States president-elect promises to withdraw troops from
Iraq. Will he deliver?
The democratic process is an opportunity for India’s politicians to foment ethnic tensions for gain
Average Russian simply thinks that his country must pursue a hard line in the fight for its place in the sun. In this penetrating overview Dmitri Travin examines the current growth of anti-Americanism and how the situation might develop in the future.
The aftershocks of war with Russia are stirring Tbilisi's opposition into life
A tense region and authoritarian domestic politics limit the space for progress in Yerevan
The fiery Preah Vihear crisis fuses historical tensions and domestic politics
Only four years ago Viktor Yushchenko and Yulia Timoshenko were close political allies. Their Orange Revolution impressed the whole world. Their bitter rivalry now led to snap parliamentary elections scheduled for 7 December.
A larger Europe-Russia crisis lights the fuse of Kyiv's bitter political rivalries (archive)
Anwar Sadat was killed on this day in 1981. What has changed in Egypt since? (archive)
The next American president, together with the efforts from European allies, must address failed strategies of the past in order to prevent the West (and Georgia for that matter) from stumbling into an expanded war in the Caucasus.
The Caucasus war is Europe's opportunity for coherence vis-a-vis Moscow. Here's how to take it
US military strategists are debating a new security paradigm. But only politics can make it happen
A wounded Pakistan must escape from the Washington-Taliban vice that traps it
The inclusion of Georgia and Ukraine in Nato is a flawed aim that guarantees conflict with Russia
The Caucasus war exposes a failure of global leadership. It's time for a new citizens' movement
A global narrative of Islamist violence risks missing the local dimensions of India's insecurity
The Qur'an as training manual in a war on unbelief. Plus: Murat Belge goes inside the fundamentalist mind (archive)
The inter-communal tension in a poor Indian state is rooted in political strategy as much as religion
Russia 19th-century thinking could yet snatch defeat from its 21st-century victory in Georgia
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