Politics: International Politics

Lead Feature

The luck of the Aussies

By Mark Beeson

Even as the world seems caught in a financial meltdown, has Australia managed to escape? Mark Beeson looks at why Australia just might be lucky - this time anyway

In international politics

Aid in a crisis

By Annie Philip
03 October

Rich Western nations are urged to stick with the UN Millennium development goals inspite of the turbulence in the global economy.

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The pay packet crunch

By Robert Reich
02 October

Robert Reich, labour secretary in Clinton's administration and world-renowned economist, explains why the American economy is grinding to a halt

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Just before being reappointed to the Cabinet Peter Mandelson, one of the key architects of New Labour, talked to the New Statesman. Read our exclusive in which he talks about the challenges faced by the party and how it mustn't return to the left/right warfare of the past which left them languishing in opposition

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Mbeki's troubled legacy

By Jakkie Cilliers
30 September

In his early years as president of South Africa Thabo Mbeki strode the globe like a colossus. But is his greatest contribution his resignation?

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Journalists: they can't live without us

By Brian Cathcart
25 September

Amid all the changes delivered by communications technology, no one has yet found another way of generating news content. It's just a pity they show so little interest in making that content better

Democracy, but not yet

By Lindsey Hilsum
25 September

The combination of being a journalist and a foreigner still makes you an object of extreme suspicion in China. Lindsey Hilsum's last letter from this fascinating country

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Feature

Interview: Arundhati Roy

By Syed Hamad Ali

The controversial author speaks to newstatesman.com about India and Kashmir plus her view that even if he's elected Barack Obama will govern like just another white man