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    A Coup D'Etat in the European Union?
    October 2011
    Susan George

    European Union workers’ pretentions to better pay and working conditions, shorter working lives, munificent retirement benefits, long holidays and time off for this and that have got to be brought under control!  Enough is enough! 

    The public debt crisis in Greece
    October 2011
    Marica Frangakis, Nicos Poulantzas Institute, Athens

    Every story needs a narrative, an explanation of why things happened the way they did. In such a narrative lie the answers of how to avoid/correct similar developments in the future and how to propagate positive ones.

    African political unity must be more selective: A blueprint for change
    September 2011
    William Gumede

    There cannot be any clearer illustration of the impotence of Africa’s continental and regional institutions to find local solutions to the continent’s problems, than their numbing inaction in the face of the wave of popular rebellions against dictators in North Africa sweeping across the...

    Victory in Afghanistan
    August 2011
    Ross Eventon

    Debate over the 10-year-plus war in Afghanistan tends to focus on how and when it "can be won," obscuring the fundamental question of whether it was morally acceptable in the first place. Now as the US gets closer to consolidating its imperial presence in the region for decades to come, the...

    Turkey, the Region, and the West after the Elections
    June 2011
    Richard Falk
     Hilal Elver

    American newspapers lead the new angle of biased critisim on Turkey. Such a shame because Ankara has proven to be an independant regional influence in the Middle East, with its own brand of soft power diplomacy.

    Understanding the Arab Spring
    June 2011
    Kamil Mahdi
    Phyllis Bennis
    Ben Hayes
     Salwa Ismail, Shaheer George, Mehdi Lalou, Yao Graham,

    Middle East scholars join TNI fellows in a unique and fascinating discussion of the context of the democracy uprisings in the Middle East and the way it may shape the region for future generations.

    International community must support non‐military solutions in northern Myanmar
    June 2011
    TNI

    Following new eruptions of violence in northern Myanmar, civil society organizations have issued a statement calling for urgent international engagement and dialogue to support non-military solutions. 

    Is the Arab Spring a Black Swan?
    May 2011
    Richard Falk

    A recent comparison by top foreign policy thinkers in the US reveals the not so pro-democratic thinking that also goes on in Washington, referring to the emancipatory movements of the Arab Spring as a improbable "worst-case scenarios."

    The politics of achieving the Right to Water
    April 2011
    Susan George
    Water Justice
     Mthandeki Nhlapo, Peter Waldorff

    Privatisation offers nothing to the 43 percent of Africans in cities who have no access to water. On World Water Day 2011, experts met in Cape Town to share experiences of successful public-public partnerships for equal public access.

    The Way Forward - Voices from the Global Water Operator Partnership Alliance
    April 2011

    GWOPA brings together public water operators, trade unions, workers and civil society on a platform to discuss, learn and develop model practices for the provision of fair and equal access to public water.

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