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A well-rounded, well-informed critique of the Pacific island nation of Japan, its society, economy, demography, and politics
Following a crushing defeat in World War II ...
"Of all the economic bubbles that have been pricked," the editors of The Economist recently observed, "few have burst more spectacularly than the reputation of ...
Every year tens of millions of individuals suffer grave abuses of their human rights. These violations occur worldwide, in war-torn countries and in the wealthiest ...
The West Asian states of Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and Iran have over the last few decades represented an arc of crisis. Characterised by fractured and ...
The Great American Recession resulted in the loss of eight million jobs between 2007 and 2009. More than four million homes were lost to foreclosures ...
The spike in the oil price to almost $150 per barrel in summer 2008 was the last great excess of the crazed noughties bull markets ...
Beginning in December 2010, a series of uprisings swept the Arab world, toppling four longtime leaders and creating an apparent political opening in a region ...
One of the most bitterly contested political issues of recent times has been climate change, and how - or indeed, whether - Australia should act to mitigate ...
In this unique new contribution, Marcelo Svirsky asserts that no political solution currently on offer can provide the cultural marrow necessary to effect a transformation ...
This is real Tehran: a city that is hidden from view and rarely written about, where survival depends on an intricate network of lies and ...