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Turkey’s unruly rule of law

After ten years of the aggressive, “Islam and democracy” experiment, Turkey is increasingly being torn apart between contrasting world views and life styles.

By Firdevs Robinson

/ 17 Apr 2013

This week's window on the Middle East - April 8, 2013

Arab Awakening's columnists offer their weekly perspective on what is happening on the ground in the Middle East. Leading the week, Algerian activism: a new generation draws the line

By Arab Awakening

/ 11 Apr 2013

A dramatic intervention

Of course, American support for costly drama is welcome, and helps keep the UK in the game, but the fact is that US-commissioned drama is simply in a different league.

By David Elstein

/ 3 Apr 2013

This week's window on the Middle East - April 1, 2013

Arab Awakening's columnists offer their weekly perspective on what is happening on the ground in the Middle East. Leading the week, Understanding Somalia

By Arab Awakening

/ 1 Apr 2013

Europeans’ love-hate relationship with interdependence

Europeans both love and hate globalisation. They benefit from mobility across cosmopolitan Europe and there can be no return to the sovereign nation-state. But they want to limit their liabilities both to other EU countries and the global economy.

By Heather Grabbe

/ 25 Mar 2013

Banned in Russia

YouTube’s challenge to Russia’s controversial blacklist law could aid activists in fighting Russia's growing control of the web.

By Elena Vlasenko

/ 15 Mar 2013

The Great Firewall of China

China’s authorities maintain a tight grip on the web. But with increasing numbers of tech-savvy users, how long can this control last? Index’s China correspondent investigates .

By China correspondent

/ 15 Mar 2013

The two worlds of Viktor Yanukovych’s Ukraine

Ukraine’s President Yanukovych has completed his takeover of his country’s TV channels, and is making inroads into the internet. As Ukraine faces a choice of whether to align itself with Europe or Eurasia, Sergii Leshchenko wonders if there is a way back.

By Sergii Leshchenko

/ 14 Mar 2013

Binary visions of a complex leader or: What I learned from Hugo Chavez (1954-2013)

All commentators with whom I had the pleasure to spar - I in the red corner, they in the blue - had three essential messages to transmit: beginning with the statement that Hugo Chávez was a tyrant - albeit - and said without the slightest irony - an elected one.

By Barry Cannon

/ 13 Mar 2013

India has an internet problem

Hastily drafted legislation has led to an upsurge in prosecution for web users.

By Mahima Kaul

/ 13 Mar 2013

Private lives, public space

As more and more interaction takes place on privately owned platforms, we should demand they protect our free speech.

By Brian Pellot

/ 13 Mar 2013

The law and social media

Online interaction is difficult to define under laws designed for a different age. Can we find a new way?

By Padraig Reidy

/ 13 Mar 2013