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democracy & powerControl over people's lives is shifting beyond the grasp of traditional institutions. Democracy is embraced as a vision, but can be endlessly frustrated or disappointing in practice.
A year of Bangkok protests reflects an illness in Thailand’s legal and political order
Uzbekistan's leader makes Moscow wary. Plus: Maria Yanofskaya on a land of emigrants
A neglected dispute seems to resemble the Caucasus-Balkans - but close-up looks different
A qualified, contingent and contextual case. Plus: Vidar Helgesen on democracy-support's future
A crucial round of elections finds Hugo Chávez’s tumultuous project at a historic impasse
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 US president-to-be should seize the initiative to heal three sources of hemispheric strain
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
An agreement over Bolivia’s constitution sets the stage for another epic political year
Democracy's advance has shaped the world's experience for three decades. A new debate is timely, says the head of International IDEA
A political crisis in Bangkok is a dangerous distraction from the insurgency in Thailand’s south
The United States president-elect will be a change-maker not a miracle-worker
Brazil’s municipal elections reveal the democratic benefits of political division
South Africa's former president is seen differently at home and abroad. A key to understanding him?
France’s president has wider ambitions. He may be reminded that all politics is local
The assumptions that guided earlier American policies towards Europe no
longer apply
The way the first world war is remembered closes as well as opens doors to the past
The middle east is a priority, says John Hulsman. Be bold on Europe too, adds A Wess Mitchell
American voters' rejection of the conservative
ascendancy must now be made real
The United States election is a referendum on the record of the country's near-invisible president
“I see myself standing at the cusp of something wonderful”. A New Orleans election-day diary
The democratic process is an opportunity for India’s politicians to foment ethnic tensions for gain
The trial of agents of Turkey's “deep
state” is making its military and its politicians nervous
The arrest of Chile's former dictator remains a landmark
event in international justice
An influential Turkish network fuses faith and modernity in search of a new social order
The pressures of debt, peak oil and climate change require a radical policy response
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