Articles

• The Art Of Subversion

  by Antoine Harari and Thomas Epitaux-Fallott May 21, 2013

  On 14 June, Iranians will go to the polls to choose the successor to outgoing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Against the backdrop of escalating nuclear posturing, and with memories still fresh of the popular disaffection embodied ...

• The Meteoric Rise Of Joko Widodo

  by Sara Schonhardt May 21, 2013

  Beset by multiple corruption scandals, the Democratic Party of Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is yet to designate a candidate to contest next year’s election. In the meantime, change is in the air. Since ...

• Belarus: Harlem Shake(s) in Slow Motion

  by Laurent Vinatier April 23, 2013

  At a first glance, Belarus appears to be a calm and empty country, which many consider to be stuck in a Soviet-era time warp. Others describe it as a black hole, a ghost country. But ...

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  Fighting Censorship: An Interview With Grigoriy Okhotin

  by Kira Youdina April 16, 2013

  Tell me a little bit about your project: OVDinfo.org. What do you hope to achieve? And what role does the Internet play? Our project came into existence after the first major protest against mass ...

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  Justice Crushed in Sri Lanka

  by Geoffrey Robertson - Global Mind March 15, 2013

  The Commonwealth is sleepwalking towards a human rights disaster, if it goes ahead with November's Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Colombo, where it will be presided over by Sri Lanka's President Mahinda ...

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  The Sino-Tibetan Issue: Searching for a Middle Way

  by Alphee September February 26, 2013

  In the run up to the 22nd session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, Kalon Dicki Chhoyang addressed the issue of Sino-Tibetan relations at the 5th Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy on ...

• A Dictatorship’s Success Stories

  by Laurent Vinatier December 28, 2012

  Aleksandr Lukashenko is resilient. The President of Belarus has stood firm against the European Union (EU) and its renewed political and economic sanctions in response to his increasingly autocratic rule. In six months, he has ...

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  A Tyrannical Victory at the Human Rights Council?

  by Thor Halvorssen - Global Minds November 13, 2012

  It is a good day for intolerant rulers like Hugo Chavez and Nursultan Nazarbayev, as seven countries with particularly appalling human rights records were elected to the UN Human Rights Council: Ethiopia, Gabon, Côte ...

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  The Great Internet Governance Swindle

  by Jean-Christophe Nothias - Editor October 29, 2012

  Could we see, beginning in Dubai in December, the end of the Internet as we know it? The 193 member states making up the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) are scheduled to meet next month to ...

• When the Media Speak European

  by Toussaint October 29, 2012

  European Identity: What the Media Say, Paul Bailey & Geoffrey Williams (eds), Oxford University Press £55.00. This volume presents parts of the findings of the IntUne Project, a transnational quadrennial project questioning the idea of ...

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