Thinking global, living local: Voices in a globalized world

  • War & Peace – a conversation with Yohana de Andrade

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    From Yohana: Hey Tom! I’ve been thinking about your email all day. As I strongly disagree with you, I tried to understand your point of view. Maybe because I live in a country that doesn’t get involved in wars as much as United States (or other countries) do, I simply don’t get […]

  • War & Peace – a conversation with Rabab Khan

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    From Rabab: Thanks Tom. Your email reminded me of this: “Is it for faith to deliver peace, when on all sides inequity thrives for it shall indeed thrive, when the blessed walk past blissfully blind, content in their own moral purity, in the peace filling their souls? Oh, you might […]

  • War & Peace – a conversation with Kira Kariakin

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    From Kira: Dear Tom I think your opinions are very interesting and provocative – I like them-, specially because United States Americans have a particular way of experience war. Always from away (with the exception of the civil war). You send soldiers to do war, and the only attacks on […]

  • Democracy on Life Support (unabridged)

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    Democracy in Hungary: Why Outsiders Should Care Alexey Sidorenko, a Future Challenges blogger based, has been observing the rollback in democracy in Hungary under Fidesz. Looking from the outside in, he sees it as one example of a broader rollback in democracy in Eastern Europe. Follow Alexey @sidorenko_intl. This article […]

  • Democracy on Life Support: Are Orban’s policies viable?

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    These are long versions of the answers that experts gave us for the Lead Article “Democracy on Life Support” which deals with the rollback of democracy in some Eastern European countries. The article is focusing on the situation in Hungary. Below you find the answers from our three interviewees to […]