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Cover Stories

Back to the future for Syria

Michael Williams, UN envoy to Lebanon 2008 to 2012

Turkey finds that trouble knows no bounds

Hugh Pope, author and Turkey/Cyprus director, International Crisis Group

Sectarian pressures are tearing up the Sykes-Picot map

Martin Chulov, Middle East correspondent for The Guardian

Iraq can't avoid contagion

Jane Kinninmont, Senior Research Fellow, Chatham House Middle East and North Africa Programme

Features

Columns

Smart phones: it's now the age of the thumb

Per Ola Kristensson, lecturer in Human Computer Interaction, University of St Andrews

Venezuela's bad loser syndrome

Julia Buxton, Head of International Relations and Security Studies in the Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford

Future of aid

How to help the poor in a rich man's world

Jon Lidén, Consultant Research Fellow, Chatham House Centre on Global Health Security

Russia

The Kremlin is not just a one-man band

Andrew Monaghan, Research Fellow, Chatham House Russia and Eurasia Programme

Big ideas

Inside the superstar economy of America's big thinkers

Daniel W. Drezner, professor of international politics, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy

Britain needs to think bigger

Phillip Blond, Director of ResPublica

Interview

International law

Dicing with death penalties in Indonesia

Dave McRae, research fellow, East Asia Programme, Lowy Institute for International Policy

International justice should prosecute beyond the bounds of Africa

Max du Plessis, barrister and senior research associate, International Crime in Africa Programme, Institute for Security Studies

G8 in Northern Ireland

Can culture heal the wounds of the Troubles?

Bruce Clark is an author, and editor of Erasmus, The Economist’s religion and public policy blog

Scotland

Chasing the Nordic option after independence

Alyson J.K. Bailes, adjunct professor, University of Iceland, and Paul Ingram, executive director, British American Security Information Council

British overseas territories

St Helena ready for take off

Michael Binyon, former diplomatic editor of The Times

Tax havens under attack

Ronen Palan, author and professor of International Political Economy, City University London

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