Hard to believe, but the nation that enthusiastically chucked Sarkozy out of the Élysée Palace 13 months ago now wants little or no part of the man they elected to serve them for five very long years.
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Monthly Archives: June 2013
Femen in Tunisia: Friend or foe?
Despite all the fuss, Tunisian activist Amina Sboui remains in jail — even as the so-called “New Amazons” gain credibility among their followers and boost Femen’s international profile.
Rising middle class in Turkey, Brazil has leaders in hot seat
Protest movements in both countries reflect the deeper gulf forming between national ruling elites and an emerging global middle class.
Spanning the Adriatic
Albania is at once part of and excluded from the capital-C Continent.
Despite local opposition, Kosovo, Serbia E.U. accession in sight
Even as the Eurozone flounders, worse-off Balkan economies regard the European bloc as a conduit to economic and regional stability.
Snowden forecast for this week: Great Power problems
If Snowden is the whistleblower he claims to be, his idealistic motives are likely victim to geopolitical forces beyond his control.
Topless Femen activists “regret” Tunisia protest
While the thought of defying Tunisia’s Islamist-led government may have been appealing in theory, the prospect of actual jail time seems to have tempered the activists’ rhetoric.
Austria’s Golan move threatens U.N. image, regional stability
Fresh off peacekeeping embarrassments in Congo and Haiti, the U.N. may have to dissolve one of its longest-standing and most successful peacekeeping operations as early as August.
Is Tunisian civil society under assault?
Ennahda, the Islamist moderate party at the helm of Tunisia’s ruling coalition, is torn between the need to conserve its staunchly Islamic base and a desire to prove that an Islamist, democratic state can exist — and more than that, flourish.
Myanmar bans Time magazine for ‘Buddhist Terror’ story
The move, “to prevent further racial or religious rioting,” is not what rights activists may have had in mind.
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