Monday, August 10, 2009

More EU appeasement in the Caucasus

Last summer brought not only a heat wave to the region, but also a war in Georgia. The French-brokered peace agreement was hailed as a momentous success, but since then, the war of words between Moscow and Tbilisi has continued, and so has the tension......

Published in the Hürriyet Daily News

Freedom Square in Tbilisi

Sunday, August 9, 2009

On the democratic erosion of democracy

In this article "Le detournement democratique" published in UnMondeLibre, Emmanuel Martin and Carlo Lottieri highlight the main problems posed by the transplantation of western democracy as the model for development in "less developped" societies.

A lire absolument. In French only.