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AFRICA | PUBLICATION DATE: May 29, 2012 at 12:00 IN A POPULAR BLOG entitled Africa Is A Country, Gregory Mann, Associate Professor at Columbia University, recently repeated a familiar narrative depicting the Tuareg rebellion in Mali in racial terms. It referred to
AFRICA | PUBLICATION DATE: May 18, 2012 at 0:08 A DRIVE THROUGH the broad avenues of what is one of Africa’s more glamorous cities yields few pointers to the post-election crisis that tore apart the country’s just-healed political process last year.
CHINA DISPATCH | PUBLICATION DATE: May 17, 2012 at 23:24 A STANDOFF BETWEEN the Philippines and China at Scarborough Shoal has brought tensions in the South China Sea to their highest level since the 1994 Mischief Reef incident
EMISSIONS | PUBLICATION DATE: April 26, 2012 at 9:00 GREEN GROWTH. A major attempt to resuscitate the concept of sustainable development, combining it with the fights against climate change and the global recession, is under way. Its roll-out will culminate in the
CHINA DISPATCH | PUBLICATION DATE: March 16, 2012 at 16:00 The spate of reforms implemented in recent months by the government of Burma has raised the prospects of the country returning from pariah status. The changes have been dramatic, and highlight broader concerns about
OXFORD DIARY | PUBLICATION DATE: February 16, 2012 at 9:00 As a symbol of free expression under threat, Salman Rushdie has become a fetish for liberals, who not only consider it blasphemy to criticize this wealthy and influential author, but also require a ritual condemnation of
OXFORD DIARY | PUBLICATION DATE: January 30, 2012 at 9:00 The recent controversy over Salman Rushdie’s non-appearance at the Jaipur Literary Festival has been widely understood in the stereotyped terms of a threat to the freedom of expression. The belligerence of those