CIAO DATE: 03/2013
Volume: 68, Issue: 8-9
October 2012
Obama is borrowing George W. Bush's winning playbook
Richard Wolffe
With one month to go before election day, Richard Wolffe looks at Barack Obama’s campaign and finds he is borrowing from George W. Bush’s playbook.
Republican View: Romney has the skills
Ed Goeas
Republican View: We need a Reaganite foreign policy
John Bolton
John Bolton argues that Obama's failure to exert power has left the US vulnerable
Democrat view: Obama's in touch with the middle class
Celinda Lake
Democrat view: Principled pragmatism beats Bush-style bluster
Bruce W. Jentleson, Charles A. Kupchan
Charles Kupchan and Bruce Jentleson on the President’s national security record
The candidates' policy platforms
Bruce Stokes, Xenia Dormandy, Joseph K. Hurd
Extracted from the Chatham House Election Notes series including work by Xenia Dormandy (Chatham House), Joseph K. Hurd (Truman National Security Project) and Bruce Stokes (Pew Research Centre)
Britain must engage with a multi-tier EU
Robin Niblett
Bad time to play call my bluff
Tony Karon
US fast-food outlets under fire should tighten local links
Kremlin struggles to exert influence in a weakened Europe
James Sherr
Gas power politics
Internet censorship - not as bad as it looks
Keir Giles
Still writing the online rulebook
David Patrikarakos
David Patrikarakos reveals how Dick Cheney, the US Vice-President, missed a blatant opportunity to defuse the crisis with Tehran
Nuclear weapons could become obsolete
Ward Wilson
The Pennyfarthing H-bomb
Thomas Cargill
The next big thing: Once known only for hunger and war, Africa's moment has arrived
Gareth Evans on 'Responsibility to Protect' after Libya
Alan Philps
‘Responsibility to Protect' is a doctrine endorsed in 2005 which aims to end impunity for the perpetrators of atrocities such as those being committed in Syria. Gareth Evans, the former Australian Foreign Minister and a prime mover behind the concept, explains why the UN is now powerless to stop the bloodshed, and offers ideas on restoring consensus.
James Nixey
Boosting morale while straining the neck. Why countries vie to have the tallest flagpoles
The impact of Syrian refugees on Turkey and Jordan
Christopher Phillips
Syria's refugee crisis is getting worse - for those who flee and for those who take them in. Christopher Phillips reports
Divine right won't save the Arab kings
Jane Kinninmont
Jane Kinninmont demolishes the theory of monarchical exceptionalism
Europe loses its Chinese cheerleader
Kerry Brown
Kerry Brown rues the pending departure of Premier Wen Jiabao
Afghanistan: donors must not give up
Shirazuddin Siddiqi
The vibrant media scene in two war-torn countries faces challenges
Iraq: Ten years without a ministry of information
Abir Awad
The vibrant media scene in two war-torn countries faces challenges
Alan Philps
Matt Frei
A date with history...The Cuban missile crisis
Martin Walker
Missiles and myths
Postcard from...Ciudad Juarez, Spain
Pascale Harter
The airport with no planes and other futile projects that have drained Spanish coffers
Jargonbuster questions 'evidence-based'
Send your jargon suggestions to letters@theworldtoday.org
Burhan Wazir
A lesser known independent strand in Indian cinema that is prepared to talk seriously about politics
Jonathan Fenby
Yang Jisheng,
Tombstone: The Untold Story of Mao's Great Famine
(Allen Lane, £30)
Books: Xenia Dormandy's US politics' reading list
Xenia Dormandy
Ten minutes with...Haifaa Al Mansour
Libby Powell
Saudi Arabia's first female film director has made an enchanting movie, Wadjda, about a girl and her bicycle. She talks to Libby Powell about changing the system from the inside