Affairs / Defence
Monocolumn
Monday 28 December
2010: Time to talk
In 2010, it will be time to start talking to the scary people: the rogue states that we’d like to ignore but can’t for fear of the mess they’d make.
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Affairs / Government
Meet the new boss
Local governors often face different challenges to their national counterparts. Smaller budgets can mean fewer choices. But thinking differently can achieve big results, as our selection of inspiring local legislators…
Affairs / Diplomacy
The Young Europeans
As Kosovo prepares to celebrate the second anniversary of its declaration of independence, the small Balkan country is still fighting to win the world's attention. In Pristina, a young government struggles to earn diplom…
Affairs / Crime
Monocolumn
Tuesday 9 August
UK Riots Part 1: Solidarity of the broom brigade
If the night before had been symbolised by the hoodie, the abiding image of the morning after was the broom.
Affairs / Government
Abuja
Founded 32 years ago, Nigerian capital Abuja was a utopian dream. But it became marred by corruption and few could afford to live there. Today, as the cranes return, its new minister is attempting to forge a truly African…
Affairs / Government
Monocolumn
Monday 23 July
Retirement for dictators isn’t easy
In the Monocle Guide to Being a Dictator the final chapter is devoted to the one thing that all autocrats would rather not think about but most will have to one day face: what to do when the game is up.
Affairs / Government
Monocolumn
Monday 9 July
Making history and writing the future
Last month, I was standing in a queue at Beirut airport when I got chatting to an Egyptian couple who were in Lebanon for a long weekend to escape the stifling heat in Cairo.
Affairs / Government
Monocolumn
Sunday 24 June
Leaders need to sell themselves
As November approaches, the US presidential candidates are going full throttle on the campaign trail.
Affairs / Government
Monocolumn
Sunday 29 April
The challenges of corruption in Indonesia
Not many countries have an acronym for corruption. Indonesia does. KKN or korupsi, kolusi, nepotisme is the term used for what has become a phenomenon here.
Affairs / Government
Monocolumn
Tuesday 17 January
China’s Gulf ties are a hedge against Iran
It’s not rare to see China in the Middle East – Chinese tourists, traders, and goods are everywhere. But for Premier Wen Jiabao to make a state visit takes a special occasion.
Affairs / Government
Monocolumn
Wednesday 3 August
Water fight incurs the wrath of the Islamic Revolution
Tehran’s chief of police, Hossein Sajednia, boasted on Sunday that the rule breakers had been identified and would be punished for actions that both “opposed Islamic values” and disrupted “social order”.
Affairs / Government
Monocolumn
Monday 11 July
Carbon tax a burning issue for Australia's wobbling government
The fight to introduce a carbon trading scheme in Australia has already brought down one prime minister. Now it threatens to engulf the tenure of another.
Affairs / Government
Monocolumn
Thursday 7 April
Kenyan catharsis as ICC investigation begins
“Today is accountability day for Kenya,” declared International Criminal Court chief prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, addressing the six Kenyans suspected of masterminding the post-election violence that killed more than 1…
Affairs / Government
Monocolumn
Thursday 21 April
That Friday feeling
A popular joke going around in Arab countries goes like this. A genie comes out of his bottle and asks the head of government (usually going through a rough patch) to make a wish. The politician pauses to think a second,…
Affairs / Government
Monocolumn
Sunday 10 October
Democracy comes to Kyrgyzstan
The plaques bolted to each of its five bulky printing units say it all: “Property of the United States Government Department of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor”.
Affairs / Government
Monocolumn
Monday 19 July
Back to old-school agitprop
Russian television has been airing some unusual programmes over the past week.
Affairs / Government
Monocolumn
Friday 28 May
Rise of Colombia’s honest man
As Colombians head to the polls tomorrow, what once looked like a forgone conclusion has recently turned into a razor-tight presidential race that is too close to call.
Affairs / Government
Monocolumn
Friday 2 April
Life after being an African president
When Kenneth Kaunda stepped down as president of Zambia in 1991 he did something no other African head of state had ever done before.
Affairs / Government
Monocolumn
Saturday 13 February
The trouble with Thailand
Ordinary Thais may be resigned to the army’s habit of running elected prime ministers out of Bangkok.
Affairs / Government
Monocolumn
Friday 20 November
Let’s get this country started
This time last year Iceland was reeling from an economic collapse of unprecedented proportions.