Current issue: January 2013

...Arab Spring, Act Two: are the monarchies next? decoding Syria’s Alawites; Mali, is the war postponed? how Occupy Wall Street fell in love with itself; nuclear power, conflicting aims; fished out, our oceans privatised; enter China’s new photographers; Upstairs, Downstairs, our fascination with the past; if we only had the time... and more...

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Are the Arab monarchies next?

by Hicham Ben Abdallah El Alaoui

As the chaotic transition towards democracy continues in North Africa and Yemen, the fighting in Syria is intensifying. And, less noticed, opposition to the Arab monarchies is growing.

Mali, a country divided

by Philippe Leymarie

On 21 December the UN Security Council approved sending an African-led intervention force to help Mali’s army reconquer the north of the country from Islamist militants. With ECOWAS and the army warily preparing an offensive, the country is now (...)

When religion enters politics

by Philippe Leymarie

Syria’s Alawites  *

by Sabrina Mervin

Privatising the oceans  *

by Jean-Sébastien Mora

The nuclear paradox  *

by Agnès Sinai

Pictures of what’s not there  *

by Philippe Pataud Celerier

And also ...

Give us your money — Yes, but what are you for? * — What to do with the waste? * — The non-proliferation treaty * — The servant question — Faster and faster *

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