Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Athar Parvaiz SRINAGAR, India, Aug 19, 2010 (IPS) – The doctors at the hospital that Khalida Begum’s husband brought her to in the frontier district of Kupwara knew she was in a dangerous state. They thus recommended that she be transferred soonest to the maternity hospital here [...]
CHILE: Mapuche Prisoners on Hunger Strike to Demand Talks
August 13, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Daniela Estrada SANTIAGO, Aug 12 (IPS) – The families of 32 Mapuche prisoners on a hunger strike for a month in different prisons in southern Chile have come to the capital to denounce irregularities in their trials and push for dialogue with the authorities. The hunger strike is [...]
B.Raman: MY THOUGHTS ON JAMMU & KASHMIR
August 4, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy B.RAMAN ( To be read in continuation of my earlier article of July 8,2010, titled "The Shadows in J & K " available at http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/%5Cpapers40%5Cpaper3913.html ) We are facing an Intifada of the Palestinian model in J & K for the first time. It is a spontaneous outburst of anger [...]
RADICALISATION OF CHINESE MUSLIMS
July 26, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy B.RAMAN Is the jihadi ideology spreading in the Muslim community of China —- geographically as well as ethnically? Has it started infecting Muslims in provinces other than the Xinjiang Autonomous Region? Has it started affecting the Huis and other non-Uighur segements of the Chinese Muslim community? Is the Uighur separatist [...]
CHINA: A Year After Xinjiang Riots, Ethnic Tensions Simmer
July 15, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Gordon Ross BEIJING, Jul 15, 2010 (IPS) – More than a year after the riots in China’s remote Xinjiang autonomous region, the country’s bloodiest ethnic clash in decades, calm has returned to the capital Urumqi. But the underlying tensions remain – tensions that Beijing will be forced [...]
MALDIVES: Political Tensions Simmer in Tourist Paradise
July 15, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Feizal Samath COLOMBO, Jul 15, 2010 (IPS) – Tourists taking in the sun and sand in the idyllic Maldives may be forgiven if they are unaware of the political developments in this country, even when President Mohamed Nasheed’s government teetered on the brink of collapse recently. After [...]
SRI LANKA: Protest Highlights Hostility to International Criticism
July 14, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Adithya Alles COLOMBO, Jul 14, 2010 (IPS) – Traffic now flows around the U.N. compound here in the Sri Lankan capital, and the dozens of policemen visible last week are no longer there. It is business as usual, a far cry from a week back when an [...]
IRAN: Unrest Grows over Economic Woes
July 14, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Barbara Slavin WASHINGTON, Jul 13, 2010 (IPS) – Last year’s Iranian political demonstrations have given way to economic protests that could prove more worrisome for the Tehran government. The unrest includes the first prolonged strike in the Tehran bazaar and protests by industrial workers who have gone [...]
‘Mediterranean Intifada’ Helping Hamas
July 9, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Adam Morrow and Khaled Moussa Al-Omrani CAIRO, Jul 9, 2010 (IPS) – Israel’s deadly assault on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla last month has led to mounting international pressure to end the ongoing Israeli and Egyptian blockade of the Gaza Strip. The incident, say local analysts, has also [...]
Where Asia and Europe May Never Meet
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Shada Islam* IDN-InDepth NewsViewpoint BRUSSELS (IDN) – Building an inclusive society where all citizens have access to jobs, health, education and housing, where democracy prevails and human rights are respected remains the over-arching goal in most parts of the world. As the economic crisis takes its toll, [...]