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If the cold-blooded murdering of twenty innocent 6 and 7 year old kids along...
Revolution is far from a common outcome of social mobilization with support of ICTs...
Tony Blair knows that he has an impossible task as the Special Envoy to...
The situation that any nation which is dependent on external source of energy wants...
Increasingly, the tone, texture and tempo of unrest grow. There is a global discontent,...
If the cold-blooded murdering of twenty innocent 6 and 7 year old kids along with six of those caring for them in an elementary school where they were supposed to be safe is not terror, then America must have a strange definition for the word. The paradox is that within a period of half...
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Revolution is far from a common outcome of social mobilization with support of ICTs and social media. In fact, the thresholds for political engagement among citizens, in democracies and authoritarian regimes alike, remain largely unchanged by recent technological advancements. We are by no means suggesting that social media and ICTs are without consequences for political...
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Tony Blair knows that he has an impossible task as the Special Envoy to the Quartet. He has no new ideas of how to get a peace process going. There have been no initiatives coming from him. Worse still, he does not appear to enjoy enough level of respect from one of the two key parties....
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The situation that any nation which is dependent on external source of energy wants to avoid is one in which it becomes reliant on one source for all of its energy needs. For reasons of national security, a nation has to have a range of energy feedstocks that can supply its needs and a...
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Increasingly, the tone, texture and tempo of unrest grow. There is a global discontent, and grievances mount; Arab Spring, Occupy, Eurozone, the global economic crisis, unemployment, Syria, Iran and US-Pakistan are a few of the events and places that are prominent in the news. The themes of discontent resonates, there are multiple simultaneous revolutions...
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Syria is the latest manifestation of the gross and sordid failure of the United Nations Security Council in its present form to be able to assure transparent, fair and honest approach to dealing with issues of great importance to the security of the world. The need and urgency to reform the UN-SC has...
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Germany, and Angela Merkel in particular, seem to be attracting considerable criticism for not being willing to take sufficient steps to resolve the Eurozone crisis. How much of this criticism is justified and how much is wide off the mark? More importantly exactly what measures need to be taken; by whom, and over...
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Mr. President, does it not bother you, that for someone who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, your apparent double standards makes even the most ardent of your supporters feel rather uneasy? Africa will judge you on the basis of the company that you keep and your contributions to advancing peace and stability on...
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