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Eastern European desire for rearmament

('Darren Thompson',) — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:55:29 -0000

Both central and eastern European governments vocally supported US plans to install military defence systems in the region, even if it meant they were to all intents and purposes digging their own graves. Out of authentic and hypothesised shadows of the past and uncertainties on the future, militarisation secrets and desires are emerging

G8 summit: amid the ruins of L'Aquila earthquake

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:00:00 -0000

Three months after the earthquake that struck the capital of the Abruzzo region, the G8 summit will have a powerful effect on an exhausted people, tens of thousands of whom are still waiting to return home

G8 summit: whilst Brown meets Medvedev, the British build Russia

('Ed Saunders',) — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:00:00 -0000

As the British and Russian prime ministers meet for the first time since the latter's March election in Japan between 7 – 9 July, a look at the foundations of a new renaissance in British-Russian relations

Slavoj Zizek: great European export or sell-out to US cultural hegemony?

Thu, 11 Aug 2005 12:00:00 -0000

The Slovenian philosopher cites Viagra to prop up Lacanian theory, wrote a critique of the matrix and has linked Hegel to sex games and Maggie Thatcher. Zizek is an impish theorist with immense transatlantic and popular appeal. So why haven't we heard of him?