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Brave new Hungary
Fidesz does not have any coherent ideology, but depending on the context, employs elements of various currents, mixing neo-conservative tropes (God, Patria, Family) with anti-globalization arguments...
View ArticleLegal prostitution in Europe: the shady facade of human trafficking
Criminalising the buying, rather than the offering, of sexual services is one of the ways to fight the transnational criminal networks behind the trafficking of women.In the last decade forced...
View ArticleThis is getting silly
The English elite’s scare tactics in the run-up to the Scottish referendum involved promising to stop the game by taking away their balls – the pound, the pensions, Queen Elizabeth (1st of Scotland,...
View ArticleWhat is to be learnt from the extraordinary momentum towards Scottish...
On Scotland, Britain, power and fossil fuels.The scale of the ambition of the Independence movement is wonderful. The ambition is not just to draw more governmental rights to Holyrood but to assert the...
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The rise and fall of states
Why do states form, and why do they collapse?The French revolution. Public domain.Today the people of Scotland will go to the polls and decide to keep or divide the United Kingdom. It is an act of...
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Playing both sides: India’s muted response to the Gaza conflict
With a new right-wing government and a growing number of Indians admiring Israel’s aggressive foreign policy, India’s response to Gaza has been fairly muted. Will Prime Minister Modi reverse the...
View ArticleOurKingdom's coverage of the #indyref - biased?
Were we biased? #Yes, here's why.The openDemocracy front page today has a huge Yes poster and we have published considerably more material for Yes than for No. Understandably this has caused some...
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Scotland's referendum: the view from around the world
As residents of Scotland vote today on the future of their country, we take a look at how countries around the world are talking about the referendum.The latest polls indicate that today's referendum...
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Letter from Glasgow
Scotland has the chance to make history, and a nation.Something special is happening in Scotland. How heartening that to say so is already considered a cliché. With 97% of eligible voters in the...
View ArticleInto the third Iraq war
Washington's strategy to defeat the Islamic State has the same deep flaws that marked earlier phases of the "war on terror".Barack Obama's address on the threat from the Islamic State on 10 September...
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Catalonia’s sovereignist process: the moment of truth
The breach of the social contract is devastating. And it’s not exclusive to Catalonia and its sovereignist process—it goes much further.Diada. Wikipedia. Public domain.There is no doubt that, once...
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The right to many tongues and multilingual cities
This is multilingualism, not in the sense of everyone speaking the same multiple languages, but the multilingualism of accepting difference and a willingness to listen to many tongues even if we do not...
View ArticleConstitutional convention now!
Scotland voted No but the people of Britain want change to how they are governed, and not just in Scotland.Scotland has voted to stay in the union, a 55% vote in favour. It was a close call and...
View ArticleWhy Israel attacked so many Palestinian civilian targets during the 2014...
Unlike the belief that Israel is just a criminal-like state for targeting civilians, attacking Palestinian civilian targets should be seen broadly as part of their defined political, economic, and...
View ArticleGenealogies of empire: the Islamic State as a western symptom
The butcher of Foley has in a sense defied the genealogies of empire and the “ be with us or against us” mentality now once again at the forefront of politics.Empires come and go. The demise of an...
View ArticleIs time running out for the proposed Israel-Turkey gas pipeline?
Much of the increased trade is in effect being conducted under the radar. The construction of a major gas pipeline, on the other hand, would definitely not escape public attention.In a recent speech in...
View ArticleWhat Turkey needs from the Davutoglu Government
It is a great opportunity for Turkey that former Minister of European Union Affairs Mevlut Cavusoglu became Davutoglu government’s Foreign Minister in order to restore relations with the EU and...
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Making work easier for Kazakhstan’s migrant workers
Astana has introduced a new patent system for its guest workers, the ‘gastarbaitery.’ But does the nesystem work for Kazakhstan’s guest workers?Although Kazakhstan attracts an estimated 700,000 to 1.2m...
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Welcome to the Great Charter Debate
Next year is the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta. Calls for a constitutional convention have now reached parliament. OurKingdom, IPPR, the politics departments of Oxford and Cambridge will together be...
View ArticleSo what is a people’s constitutional convention?
What exactly is a people's constitutional convention and does Labour's proposal meet that criteria?Over the past couple of weeks, as the referendum campaign reached its climax in Scotland, a concept...
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