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Let's look at plan B— Global
Preface
Struggling nations and cities need to hitch up their skirts, quicken their step and just get on with it. Our editor-in-chief follows up the debates stirred up in this issue.
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Asia Briefing
Issue 54
A new multipurpose "port complex" in South Korea, an election in Mongolia and new divorce laws in India.
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Africa/Middle East briefing
Issue 7
When Walid Ataya left Lebanon for Dubai after last summer’s war, he never imagined that a year later he would be back. “I was offered a salary three times more than I was making in Beirut,” he says. “The decision to go was…
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In the hot seat
Issue 27
Chile’s first female president, Michelle Bachelet, was tortured as a student under Pinochet’s rule and lived in exile for nearly five years. As her term comes to an end, Monocle talks to the popular leader about male cha…
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Africa/Middle East briefing
Issue 26
Somaliland does democracy (while the rest of the world denies the country's existence), Yemen's president claims he's been a crime-fighting success (while his country goes into meltdown), and it's back to school in Gaza …
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Europe Briefing
Issue 50
The crime of stalking is elusive to define, tricky to prove, and tough to effectively punish.
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Asia briefing
Issue 62
Cambodia keeps politics in the family, South Korea get equal, and Japan gets green vending machines
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Africa/Middle East Briefing
Issue 44
What Sultan Qaboos of Oman uses to get around, why the African Union is having an identity crisis and how recent unrest has affected stock exchanges
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Africa/ Middle East Briefing
Issue 36
Angola has a stab at press freedom, Nigeria's internet speeds up and we look at the upcoming elections in Egypt and Libya
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Americas briefing
Issue 7
Bolivia’s two main cities La Paz and Sucre each want to be the country’s sole seat of government, setting up a showdown at a critical time. President Evo Morales has convened an assembly to rewrite the constitution to give…
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Americas briefing
Issue 14
How a herd of zebras is saving lives on Bolivia's roads, and the Caribbean island where ATM machines have become a tourist attraction.
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The next four years
Issue 58
Whoever ends up sat in the Oval Office come January next year will have a huge job on his hands but also a massive opportunity. Here is Monocle’s advice.
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Europe briefing
Issue 26
The new leaders tasked with saving Eastern Europe from economic doom, the Swedish town that's delighted it's being dumped on, and why French holidaymakers might want to take out more travel insurance.