Al-Ahram Weekly | International

18 - 24 October 2007
Issue No. 867
International

Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875

China's economic miracle is propelling its one-party system into the future with no looking back, reports Gamal Nkrumah

Overwhelming force will not end Pakistan's war in Waziristan, reports Graham Usher

Pakistan is a paragon of the complexities facing post-colonial states in an imperialist age, writes Shahid Alam

Vlad refuses to play by his erstwhile friends' rules and is not afraid to tell them so. Eric Walberg watches the schoolyard antics