Opinion
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Youth & politics in post-revolution Ethiopia
Eyob Aselefech Balcha, Special to Addis Standard Nearly half a century had passed since the Ethiopian Students’ Movement (ESM)…
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Isolating Israel
Daoud Kuttab Ramallah – Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu certainly has reason to celebrate. He surprised nearly everyone by…
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Russian policy toward Ukraine: The view from Paris
Mark N. Katz, Special to Addis Standard I visited Paris March 4-10, 2015, to talk with people there about…
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Economic Statistics: problems of knowledge and manipulation
Morten Jerven Routinely economic statistics inform and support big headlines, but statistics itself seldom makes the news. That was…
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Can Yemen be saved?
By Barak Barfi Sana’a – Yemen is no stranger to crisis. Exposed to a regional proxy war between Iran and…
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The bookies and the British election
By Chris Patten London – I used to be considered a pretty good forecaster of British and other countries’ elections.…
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The overrated discourse of good governance
Eyob Balcha, special to Addis Standard Nowadays one cannot avoid the presentation of ‘good governance’ as a silver bullet that…
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It’s the economy, Tunisia
By Olin L. Wethington Tunis – On December 21, Tunisia completed a remarkable democratic transfer of power, with the election…
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Pakistan after the Peshawar massacre
By Shahid Javed Burki Lahore – On December 16, the Taliban attacked an army school in Peshawar and killed 132…
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Standing up to Illiberalism
By Chris Patten London – It is a rare political speech that stops me in my tracks. But that is…
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