St Antony's College in the Media - Trinity Term 2008

Below is a listing of articles and media appearances by or about Antonians during April to June 2008. This is only a small sample of the prolific output of our members. If you know of an article that is not featured here please notify us.

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Articles and interviews in Trinity term 2008 (April to June)

• 30 June 2008: Let the African Union set democratic standards - The Financial Times
  John Githongo, Senior Associate Member, and William Gumede, former Senior Associate Member, urge the African Union to change its charter from protecting the sovereignty of individual countries to protecting Africans themselves.
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• 28 June 2008: The Today Programme - BBC Radio 4, 8.50am
  What could tip Zimbabwe over the edge and remove Robert Mugabe from power? Historians RW Johnson and Robert Service (Director of the Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre) discuss how parallels from the past help us understand whether and when the people of Zimbabwe will say enough is enough.
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• 28 June 2008: Africa presented with its biggest test yet - The Financial Times
  John Githongo, Senior Associate Member, is quoted in a comment on why Zimbabwe is such a problem for other African states.
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• 27 June 2008: Five Steps to Sustainable Governance in Africa - Council on Foreign Relations, US
  Stephanie Hanson interviews Paul Collier, Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies, about policy options for helping the poorest countries in Africa.
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• 27 June 2008: Catholic issue withdrawn - The Mercury, South Africa
  A report that Britain's Roman Catholic weekly magazine The Tablet has withdrawn its latest issue from circulation in Zimbabwe in case it offends Robert Mugabe and puts its readers in danger. The article concerned, Mugabe’s act of supremacy, which compared Robert Mugabe with King Henry VIII, was written by Terence Ranger, Emeritus Fellow and former Rhodes Professor of Race Relations at Oxford University.
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• 26 June 2008: We don't need guns to help the people pitch Mugabe from his perch - The Guardian
  Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of European Studies and Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow, argues that Mandela may be a better bet than the Almighty to remove a ruler who has turned his country into a hell on earth.
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• 24 June 2008: Ohne Muslime kein Europa - Frankfurter Rundschau, Germany (in German)
  Arno Widmann discusses the views of Tariq Ramadan, Research Fellow, and Jürgen Habermas, and agrees that Muslims are true Europeans because it is harder for them to feel integrated into individual states. "No Europe without Muslims."
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• 24 June 2008: Anderton: Zimbabwe Parliamentary Notice of Motion - Scoop, New Zealand
  A report of a Parliamentary Notice of Motion by New Zealand Progressive Party leader, Jim Anderton, citing Paul Collier, Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies, when calling on the New Zealand Parliament to condemn Mugabe's regime and call for change in Zimbabwe.
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• 23 June 2008: Obituary: David Kerr - The Guardian
  An obituary of Professor David Kerr, alumnus, who was a leading figure in the academic study of relations between Christianity and Islam. His son, Simeon Kerr, describes his life as devoted to pursuing dialogue as a means to minimise religious mistrust and fear.
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• 23 June 2008: The Talking Cure: Sometimes it makes things worse - The Weekly Standard, US
  Max Boot discusses Nixon and Mao: The Week that Changed the World (Random House) by Margaret MacMillan, Warden of St Antony's, in the context of foreign policy precedents that might guide Barack Obama.
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• 22 June 2008: Let Us Now Praise Coups - The Washington Post
  Paul Collier, Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies, puts forward an argument for unseating the governments of Zimbabwe and Burma.
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• 21 June 2008: Mugabe’s act of supremacy - The Tablet
  Terence Ranger, Emeritus Fellow and former Rhodes Professor of Race Relations at Oxford University, considers the role of the churches in Zimbabwe as the last defence against the power of the state.
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• 20 June 2008: New Wartime Contracting Commission Members Named - POGO.org (Project on Government Oversight), US
  Dov S Zakheim, alumnus and former research fellow, has been appointed by President Bush to the US Commission on Wartime Contracting. He is a Vice-President of the global strategy and technology consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton.
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• 19 June 2008: Alistair Horne: My discussions on war (and peace) with George Bush - The Independent
  Sir Alistair Horne, Honorary Fellow, describes his recent dinner with President Bush at Downing Street and elaborates on the influence - or otherwise - of history on top politicians of the past.
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• 19 June 2008: Instead of bullying the Irish, Europe should be working on plan D - and E - The Guardian
  Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of European Studies and Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow, analyses the possible ways forward after the Irish 'no' vote on the Lisbon treaty.
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• 18 June 2008: Oxford confers honourary doctorate to Montek Singh - The Economic Times, India
  Montek Singh Ahluwalia, alumnus, the deputy chairman of India's Planning Commission, has received an honorary doctorate from Oxford University.
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• 16 June 2008: Council on Foreign Relations: Paul Collier's Bottom Billion wins CFR's 2008 Arthur Ross Book Award - MaximsNews Network, UN
  Paul Collier, Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies, has won the Council’s seventh annual Arthur Ross Book Award for the best book published on international affairs.
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• 13 June 2008: Allan Gregg in Conversation with Paul Collier - TVO, Ontario, Canada (Repeated on June 14 and 16)
  Paul Collier, Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies, is interviewed regarding his call for dramatic changes to improve conditions for the world's poorest countries in his book The Bottom Billion.
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• 12 June 2008: Nixon Library Hosts 'Pingpong Diplomacy' Rematch - NPR (National Public Radio), US
  Margaret MacMillan, Warden of St Antony's and author of Nixon and Mao: The Week That Changed the World, is interviewed as The Nixon Presidential Library in California hosts a "pingpong diplomacy" rematch between Chinese and American players in honor of the historic 1971 and '72 matches. Those games helped to open relations between the United States and China and pave the way for President Nixon's visit to the communist nation.
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• 12 June 2008: When is an apology not enough? or too much? - The Globe and Mail, Canada
  Margaret MacMillan, Warden of St Antony's, discusses the Canadian Prime Minister's apology, on behalf of all the country's people, to aboriginal Canadians.
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• 12 June 2008: This risks strangling freedom without any security gain - The Guardian
  Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of European Studies and Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow, argues that the narrow majority on 42 days makes it a bad day for British democracy, even if the bill has been amended into futility.
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• 12 June 2008: Obituary - Professor Richard Greenfield: Historian - The Independent
  Roy Pateman remembers the late Richard Greenfield, former Senior Associate Member and historian of the Horn of Africa, whose 1965 Ethiopia: a new political history has never been bettered.
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• 12 June 2008: Meet The Globe Salonistas - The Globe and Mail, Canada
  Margaret MacMillan, Warden of St Antony's, is amongst the members of The Globe and Mail's inaugural Globe Salon.
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• 6 June 2008: Hope springs eternal - The Guardian
  Stephen Moss interviews Joanna Kavenna, Alistair Horne Fellow 2003-4, who has just won the Orange new writers award with her eighth novel.
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• 5 June 2008: Nula democracia directa - Clarin, Argentina
  Romina Grinberg, alumna, writes about direct democracy in the city of Buenos Aires.
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• 5 June 2008: Inglorious triumph in first novel award - The Guardian
  Joanna Kavenna, Alistair Horne Fellow 2003-4, has won the 2008 Orange award for new writers with a tale of a disaffected journalist's descent into nervous breakdown, Inglorious.
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• 5 June 2008: In Our Time - Trofim Lysenko - BBC Radio 4
  Robert Service, Director of the Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre, discusses the career and legacy of Trofim Lysenko, a self-taught geneticist who in the 1920s convinced Stalin he could turn Russian wasteland into a grain-laden Garden of Eden.
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• 5 June 2008: Obama is Europe's dream candidate, but we may have to settle for McSame - The Guardian
  Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of European Studies and Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow, argues that Europe would like the Democratic victor in charge but must still prepare for a hawkish McCain presidency, and advance its own agenda.
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• 3 June 2008: Egyptian Writer Views British Role in Mideast - Al-Hayat, London (translated by BBC Monitoring Middle East)
  A report by Egyptian writer Mustafa al-Fiqi on his experience of visiting major British research centres including the Middle East Centre at St Antony's College.
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• 3 June 2008: What can the UN food conference in Rome hope to achieve? - BBC Radio 4: The Today Programme, 8.34 am
  Paul Collier, Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies, takes part in a debate on rising world food prices.
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• 3 June 2008: View from Europe - The Financial Times (video)
  James Blitz, alumnus and FT Diplomatic Editor, interviews Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of European Studies and Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow over whether US relations with Europe will be on a better footing when a new president is in office.
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• May/June 2008: There is a simple process at work: Africa is learning from its mistakes - The Boston Review
  Paul Collier, Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies, is hopeful that the present commodity booms will be better handled than those of the 1970s, primarily because many Africans are fully aware of past mistakes and are determined not to repeat them.
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• May/June 2008: Top 100 Public Intellectuals - Foreign Policy, US
  Antonians listed include Anne Applebaum, Paul Collier, Thomas Friedman and Tariq Ramadan.
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• May 2008: 4 ways to improve the lives of the "bottom billion" - TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design), US (video)
  Paul Collier, Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies, lays out a bold, compassionate plan for closing the gap between rich and poor.
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• May 2008: Joint Review: Journalism in Iran and Media, Culture and Society in Iran - Arab Media & Society
  Will Ward, alumnus and managing editor of Arab Media & Society, reviews two English language books on Iranian media studies.
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• 31 May 2008: No sentiments in war - The Guardian
  Avi Shlaim, Professor of International Relations, reviews 1948: The First Arab-Israeli War (2008, Yale) by Benny Morris, former Senior Associate Member. It is a study of Israel's first armed conflict that confronts national myths head on.
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• 30 May 2008: Academic Embedded with U.S. Army Killed by IED - NPR (National Public Radio), US
  A report by Megan Hall on the death of Michael Bhatia, a doctoral student of St Antony's who was working in Afghanistan.
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• 29 May 2008: Olmert's bitter harvest - The Guardian
  Daphna Baram, former Senior Associate Member, writes that even those who believe Olmert can bring peace have abandoned him. It's time for the Israeli prime minister to resign.
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• 29 May 2008: Haycast 06: Sunny side of Hay - The Guardian
  A podcast from the 2008 Hay Literary Festival including an interview with Tariq Ramadan, Research Fellow, by Sarfraz Manzoor.
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• 29 May 2008: Can we have world-class universities as well as social justice in education?" - The Guardian
  Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of European Studies and Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow, argues that while Europe resists US-style college fees, as Oxford fundraisers know, we need to find that kind of money to compete.
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• 29 May 2008: The Agenda with Steve Paikin - TVO, Ontario, Canada
  Paul Collier, Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies, is interviewed regarding his ideas on preventing the world's poorest from falling even further behind.
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• 28 May 2008: Ramadan's festival - The Guardian
  A report by Sarfraz Manzoor on a talk given by Tariq Ramadan, Research Fellow, at the Hay Festival 2008 in which he returned to the fundamentals of faith, but brought back an enlightened, progressive Islam.
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• 27 May 2008: Counterterrorism, Conflict Prevention, or Hunger: Which Would You Spend Money On? - Reason magazine, US
  A report on the 2008 Copenhagen Consensus Conference, in which leading economic experts aim to prioritize the world's biggest problems. It features the views of Paul Collier, Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies, on how to address the security challenges in conflict-prone countries.
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• 26 May 2008: "Polder mosque" for young Dutch Muslims - Radio Netherlands Worldwide
  Tariq Ramadan, Research Fellow, is quoted as an important inspiration behind Mohammed Cheppih's creation of a "polder mosque" in Amsterdam where young Dutch Muslims can feel at home and express their own experience of religion using the culture and language of the Netherlands.
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• 22 May 2008: We have a responsibility to protect the people of Burma. But how? - The Guardian
  Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of European Studies and Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow, analyses the problem in Burma. If a military-backed aid bridge had a fair chance of success, he would support it. It doesn't, so we have to use all other means.
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• 21 May 2008: Tibet and China: 7 questions - The BBC
  Steve Tsang, Louis Cha Senior Research Fellow in Modern Chinese Studies, explains the Chinese government's viewpoint regarding its claim on Tibet.
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• 21 May 2008: Top cat: how 'Hello Kitty' conquered the world - The Independent
  Sharon Kinsella, lecturer in the sociology of Japan, comments on the success of the Hello Kitty toy as cultural icon and even diplomatic envoy.
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• 18 May 2008: New Leader for N.A.A.C.P. Is Its Youngest - The New York Times
  A report of the selection of Benjamin T Jealous, alumnus, as President of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in the US. At 35 he will be the youngest leader in the organization’s 99-year history. He will take over as president in September.
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• 16 May 2008: Bhatia remembered as caring peacemaker - The Milford Daily News
  A report of the funeral of Michael Bhatia, student of St Antony's, including a tribute from his sister, Tricia Lynn Bhatia.
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• 16 May 2008: New Israeli scholars face up to country's origins - The Arab American News, US
  Eric Rouleau looks at books on the Arab-Israeli conflict, notably the work of Avi Shlaim, Professor of International Relations, Ilan Pappé, alumnus, and Benny Morris, former Senior Associate Member.
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• 16 May 2008: When will Arab oil translate into political power? - The Arab American News, US
  Patrick Seale, alumnus, asks why the Arab world's wealth has not been translated into political power.
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• 15 May 2008: Poland is overtaking Britain on the road to Europe - and to the euro - The Guardian
  Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of European Studies and Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow, argues that in a world transformed, Poles in Oxford prove the potential of the EU while Brits travel to Krakow - 'Poland's Oxford' - for little but the boozing.
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• 15 May 2008: Grad killed in Afghanistan - Cherwell
  An Oxford student newspaper commemorates the achievements of Michael Bhatia, student of St Antony's, who was tragically killed while working as a social scientist in Afghanistan.
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• 15 May 2008: Shame, sorrow and revolt - Al Jazeera Magazine
  Tariq Ramadan, Research Fellow, speaks out against the naming of Israel as guest of honour at the Turin Book Fair without reference to the sufferings of the Palestinians.
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• 14 May 2008: China's Earthquake Candor Contrasts With Tibet Media Clampdown - Bloomberg
  Steve Tsang, Louis Cha Senior Research Fellow in Modern Chinese Studies, comments on the differences between the Chinese and Burmese responses to disaster.
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• 13 May 2008: The Today Programme (07:09am) - BBC Radio 4
  Steve Tsang, Louis Cha Senior Research Fellow in Modern Chinese Studies, comments on the Chinese response to the earthquake in south-western China.
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• 12 May 2008: Turkish foreign policy hostage to domestic political problems - Today's Zaman, Turkey
  An interview with Philip Robins, University Lecturer in the Politics of the Middle East, in which he argues the Turkish government is unlikely to move forward with vital issues - such as accession negotiations with the European Union and a solution to the Cyprus problem, an essential prerequisite for Turkish EU membership - as a closure case pending against the ruling party has been limiting its abilities.
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• 12 May 2008: Israel at 60: Israel's celebration remains a Palestinian catastrophe - The Guardian
  Ahmad Samih Khalidi, Senior Associate Member, argues that neither side will ever agree on the narrative of the conflict, and the prospects for peace in the Middle East are slim.
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• 10 May 2008: Afghan bomb kills scholar from Mass. - The Boston Globe, US
  A report of the death of Michael Bhatia, doctoral candidate, who died working as a social scientist in Afghanistan.
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• 10 May 2008: Turkey's tension is between extreme secularists and Muslim democrats - Turkish Daily News
  An extract from the speech given at St Antony's College by EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn, alumnus of St Antony's, on 1 May 2008. It suggests that Orhan Pamuk's novel on the tensions between hardline secularists and Muslim democrats may be a realistic analysis of today's Turkey, not a surrealistic exercise. The speech has created a widespread controversy in the Turkish media and dozens of columns have referred to it.
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• 9 May 2008: Radical Reform: Ethics and Liberation - Middle East Online
  Tariq Ramadan, Research Fellow, argues that the status of the Quran for Muslims – considering it as God’s word – as well as the necessary mediation of the Prophetic tradition, are by no means obstacles to a historical, contextualised and critical reading.
  
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• 8 May 2008: This tale of two revolutions and two anniversaries may yet have a twist - The Guardian
  Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of European Studies and Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow, reflects on the outcomes of two revolutionary years: 1968 and 1989. Their very different events left a reformed, stronger, more socially liberal capitalism - but now it's in trouble.
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• 6 May 2008: Karzai's three wishes - The Guardian
  Nushin Arbabzadah reflects on a speech given by President Karzai at St Antony's College in June 2003.
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• 6 May 2008: Suu Kyi awarded Congressional Gold Medal - United Press International
  Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar pro-democracy advocate and Honorary Fellow of St Antony's, has been awarded the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest civilian honor awarded in the United States.
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• 5 May 2008: Does military intervention work in conflict remedy? - The Jakarta Post, Indonesia
  Paul Collier, Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies, and Bjørn Lomborg argue that used as part of a package, military force can be a reliable and effective way to provide stability to fragile nations and reduce the suffering of the world's most vulnerable people.
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• 5 May 2008: Rehn: Fight is between extreme secularists and Muslim democrats - Today's Zaman, Turkey
  A report of a speech given at St Antony's College by EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn, alumnus, on 1 May 2008. Dr Rehn dealt with the Turkish question at length during his speech, entitled Europe's smart power in its region and the world.
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• 3 May 2008: Margaret MacMillan: Things not to learn from history - Toronto Star, Canada
  Vit Wagner interviews Margaret MacMillan, Warden of St Antony's, about the lessons of history and the need to be vigilant against those who would twist the past for their own interests.
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• 3 May 2008: Academic says Turkey now more effective in Middle East - Today's Zaman
  Philip Robins, University Lecturer in the Politics of the Middle East, argues that Turkey is now more effective in its role as a bridge between the Middle East and Europe than in the past because it has more credibility as a democracy and as a Muslim country.
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• 2 May 2008: Gorbachev Number Two: Dmitry Medvedev - OpEdNews.com
  Andreas Umland, former Research Fellow, looks at the dissimilarities between Putin and Medvedev and argues that there is a possibility that Medvedev may turn out to be more open to democratic change than many commentators have suggested.
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• 27 April 2008: History in the eye of the beholder - The Toronto Star, Canada
  Geoff Pevere reviews The Uses and Abuses of History (Viking Canada) by Margaret MacMillan, Warden of St Antony's. He explains that she warns that history can be selected, bent, melded and packaged to suit the requirements of users.
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• 26 April 2008: Moscow's New Chief Ideologist: Ivan Demidov - OpEdNews.com
  Andreas Umland, former Research Fellow, looks at the appointment of Ivan Demidov as head of the Ideological Directorate of the Political Department of United Russia’s Central Executive Committee in late February 2008.
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• 24 April 2008: Universities Guide: Top of the class, again - The Independent
  Oxford is placed first by the 2009 Top Universities Guide ranking of UK universities. Of particular relevance to St Antony's, which houses the Middle East Centre, the African Studies Centre and the Centre for the Study of African Economies, are the subject tables which show Oxford leads the field in Middle Eastern and African Studies and in Politics.
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• 24 April 2008: Whether Clinton, Obama or McCain wins it, prepare for a big letdown - The Guardian
  Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of European Studies and Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow, argues that Hillary Clinton offers the safest pair of hands. But none of the American presidential candidates can deliver what the world wants.
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• 24 April 2008: A glimpse of African tigers - The Guardian
  William Gumede, Senior Associate Member, 2007, writes that Chinese investment in Africa could help fight poverty in ways western money never did.
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• 23 April 2008: A World Leader in the Study of China - Apollo magazine
  The influence of Vivienne Shue, Leverhulme Professor of Contemporary China Studies and Director of the Contemporary China Studies Programme, is mentioned in an article about the launch this year of the University of Oxford China Centre heralding a dynamic period in the study of China at Oxford.
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• 22 April 2008: Muslim Martin Luthers: The Theologians Working Towards a Euro-Islam - Der Spiegel, Germany
  Dieter Bednarz and Daniel Steinvorth profile leading Muslim scholars who are laying the theological foundations for a "Euro-Islam" which would reconcile their religion with the challenges of modernity. Amongst them is Tariq Ramadan, Research Fellow.
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• 22 April 2008: Study urges UN force to back coup-risk democracies - Reuters
  Mark Trevelyan reports on a new study co-authored by Paul Collier, Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies. The study argues that the international community would get better value for money from peacekeeping operations if it created a standing military force to come to the rescue of democracies threatened by coup or civil war.
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• 22 April 2008: Chinese rally to the torch in Australia - The Financial Times
  Steve Tsang, Louis Cha Senior Research Fellow in Modern Chinese Studies, comments on the depth of nationalist feeling in China.
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• 19 April 2008: Party, CU one on top job - Suranjan Das unanimous choice as vice-chancellor - The Telegraph, Calcutta. (Also in Express India)
  A report that the Calcutta University senate elected Suranjan Das, alumnus and Antonian liaison officer for India, as Vice-Chancellor.
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• 18 April 2008: Wrong time, wrong place - The Guardian
  Daniel A Bell, alumnus, writes that Beijing in the midst of the Olympics is the last place for foreign athletes or governments to protest about Tibet. Constructive dialogue is better.
  
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• 18 April 2008: Writer vies for award - The Oxford Times
  Joanna Kavenna, Alistair Horne Fellow 2003-4, has been shortlisted for this year's Orange Award for new female writers for her novel Inglorious, which was written while she was living in Oxford.
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• 17 April 2008: We need a benign European hydra to advance the cause of democracy - The Guardian
  Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of European Studies and Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow, argues that our continent's diversity should let us promote freedom without the taint of Bush's neocon project imposed by force.
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• 15 April 2008: Food shortages: think big - The Times
  Paul Collier, Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies, argues that if we're to solve this global problem, we need more globalisation and less sentimentality.
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• 15 April 2008: Amnesty report says China leads the world in executions - International Herald Tribune. (Also mentioned in China gets gold medal for executions - News.com.au, Australia)
  Rosemary Foot, Professor of International Relations and the John Swire Senior Research Fellow, is interviewed regarding China's response to being named as the world leader in holding executions.
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• 13 April 2008: The Belonuchkin Case: An Example of What Happens to Defenders of Democracy in Russia - OpEdNews.com
  Andreas Umland, former Research Fellow, describes a series of threats and attacks on the Russian political journalist and researcher Grigory Belonuchkin when he told a court that the results of the federal parliamentary elections in two electoral precincts of his home town Dolgoprudnyi near Moscow were tainted.
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• 11 April 2008: Ex-Shanghai Party Boss Gets 18 Years - Associated Press
  Steve Tsang, Louis Cha Senior Research Fellow in Modern Chinese Studies, comments on the sentencing of Chen Liangyu, former Communist Party chief of the country's financial capital, to 18 years in prison rather than the usual punishment for serious economic crimes — death.
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• 10 April 2008: Help poor states to seize the fruits of the boom - The Financial Times
  Paul Collier, Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies, and Michael Spence point out that many low-income countries are in the midst of commodity export booms which dwarf aid flows. They argue that it is vital to ensure that these countries reap the full benefits by promoting voluntary international standards to facilitate good stewardship of resource revenues.
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• 10 April 2008: To say that Mugabe is evil and Mandela is good is far too simplistic - The Guardian
  Blessing-Miles Tendi, DPhil candidate, argues that understanding the events in Zimbabwe is not helped by crude comparisons.
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• 10 April 2008: Intimidation and censorship are no answer to this inflammatory film - The Guardian
  Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of European Studies and Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow, argues that a Dutch politician's alarmist anti-Islam polemic needs to be taken apart and calmly answered.
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• 9 April 2008: Seven Candidates Score Dramatic, Sweet Victories - The Korea Times
  Amongst the victors in the recent Korean election was alumnus Park Jin, who is one of the authorities on diplomatic affairs at the National Assembly. Dr Park is one of the very few links between diplomatic think-tanks in Washington and Seoul, and is considered one of the Grand National Party’s next generation leaders.
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• April 2008: Volatility Kills - Scientific American
  Gary Stix explains how Paul Collier, Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies, provides possibly the most incisive analysis of the volatility issue in sub-Saharan African economies. This includes a range of options that the US and other nations could adopt when formulating policy towards African countries as a way of warding off a repeat of the severe economic collapse of the 1970s.
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• 7 April 2008: Three authors on Orange shortlist - The BBC
  Joanna Kavenna, Alistair Horne Fellow 2003-4, has been shortlisted for the Orange Broadband Award for New Writers for her novel Inglorious, about a London journalist facing a crisis.
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• 7 April 2008: From social liability to economic asset: It can be done - The Globe and Mail, Canada
  Judith Maxwell argues that The Bottom Billiion by Paul Collier, Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies, should be read by every Canadian with an interest in the future of the country's aboriginal people and anyone looking for a way to turn a social liability into an economic asset.
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• 6 April 2008: We provoke Russian paranoia at our peril - The Observer
  Robert Service, Director of the Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre, argues that by agreeing to place an American defence system in Eastern Europe, Nato has given the Kremlin the perfect excuse to further cement its autocratic rule.
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• 6 April 2008: Zimbabwe: A journey from the abyss? - Business Day, Nigeria
  Ogho Okiti looks at Zimbabwe's prospects using the analysis provided in The Bottom Billion by Paul Collier, Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies.
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• 4 April 2008: Economist considers measures to fix Zimbabwean economy - The World Today, Australian Broadcasting Company
  Stephanie Kennedy interviews Paul Collier, Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies, about Zimbabwe's possibilities under a different leadership.
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• 3 April 2008: Talking cents - Times Higher Education
  Melanie Newman discusses the work of Paul Collier, Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies, in particular his belief that economists have a duty to speak directly to the public about global poverty.
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• 3 April 2008: The Pseudo-Issue of Ukraine's NATO Membership - OpEdNews.com
  Andreas Umland, former Research Fellow, argues that Ukraine is unlikely to join NATO and is a distraction from more important issues such as heading off mutual misunderstanding and international confrontation.
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• 3 April 2008: Europe owes a huge thank you to skilful, patient President George Bush - The Guardian
  Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of European Studies and Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow, argues that President George Bush Senior's diplomacy helped to reunite Europe, but as Nato meets in Bucharest, his son is completing two terms of global failure.
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• 2 April 2008: General Assembly opens two-day debate aimed at spurring progress towards achieving global development goals by 2015 - Media Newswire
  A report of contributions by Paul Collier, Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies, to the UN General Assembly's discussions on achieving global development goals.
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• 1 April 2008: It's about launching a conversation - The Globe and Mail, Canada
  A report on the launch of Extraordinary Canadians in which Margaret MacMillan, Warden of St Antony's, writes a profile of humorist-economist Stephen Leacock.

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Antonians who appeared regularly in the news in Trinity 2008

The following Antonians appear so frequently in the media that references are too numerous to list.

• Thomas L Friedman - Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign affairs columnist on The New York Times. See The New York Times for his latest articles. Tom Friedman is an alumnus and Honorary Fellow of St Antony's.
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• Anne Applebaum, also a Pulitzer Prize-winner, is a columnist and member of the editorial board of The Washington Post. She is an alumna of St Antony's.
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• Bridget Kendall, the BBC's diplomatic correspondent since 1998, is often to be heard covering top foreign stories for radio and television news. She is both an alumna and an Honorary Fellow of St Antony's.
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• James Blitz, alumnus, is Diplomatic Editor of The Financial Times.
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• James Myburgh, alumnus, is editor of Politicsweb in South Africa.
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• Jürgen Dunsch, alumnus, is Swiss correspondent for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
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• Nadia Abu-Zahra, a DPhil candidate in Geography, hosts the Wednesday edition of Middle East Today, an hour-long debating programme on the new London-based satellite channel, Press TV.
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• Andrés Schipani, alumnus, is Bolivia contributor for the BBC and contributor on Latin American issues for newspapers such as The Guardian and The Financial Times.
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• Aung San Suu Kyi - See the Daw Aung San Suu Kyi website for an ongoing commentary on the situation in Burma. Aung San Suu Kyi is an Honorary Fellow of St Antony's and her late husband, Dr Michael Aris, was a Governing Body Fellow.

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