Al-Ahram Weekly | International

Dog eats dog
To make sense of the tragic dynamic of current conflicts in , Gamal Nkrumah turns to Rousseau's notion that "might creates right"

Trade and trepidation
The bang and whimper of last week's OAS protests either mark the final gasp of the anti-free trade movement or merely a lull in the struggle against globalisation, Marc Munro reports

Beijing minus five?
Five years after Beijing, the political will to combat the feminisation of poverty seems to have taken a dive. Faiza Rady looks beyond the hype

The leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-II, met President, Kim Dae-Jung, of South Korea for a historic summit in the North Korean capital Pyongyang on Tuesday. The two leaders vowed to end five decades of enmity between their countries
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