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

Below is a listing of articles and media appearances by or about Antonians during October to December 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 Michaelmas Term 2008 (October to December)

• December 2008: Waging Peace One State or Two? - Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
  Avi Shlaim, Professor of International Relations, argued that a two-state solution was the only practical response to the Israel/Gaza problem during the first annual Edward Said Memorial Lecture at the Palestine Center in Washington.
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• 31 December 2008: Colombia's Leader Digs In - The Wall Street Journal
  A profile of Álvaro Uribe, President of Colombia and former Senior Associate Member, and the possibilities for extending his tenure.
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• 31 December 2008: Gaza crisis: challenge and opportunity for Obama to turn the page toward peace - People's Weekly World, US
  The work of Avi Shlaim, Professor of International Relations, is quoted in an article on Gaza.
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• 30 December 2008: The hundred most influential books since the war - The Times
  An article on the Central and East European Publishing Project (CEEPP), which aimed to identify those books that defined the second half of the twentieth century and promote their translation so they would be more accessible to those on the other side of the Iron Curtain. Several Antonians are mentioned, notably Lord Dahrendorf, then Warden of St Antony's College, who chaired the Project.
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• 24 December 2008: Timor Leste president to hold peace lecture in Davao - GMA News, The Philippines
  A profile of Timor-Leste president and 1996 Nobel Peace Laureate Jose Ramos-Horta, who is also a former Senior Associate Member of St Antony's.
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• 22 December 2008: Closing the gulf created by reform; Forging a stable society is a major task for the leadership in the next three decades - South China Morning Post
  Steve Tsang, Louis Cha Senior Research Fellow in Modern Chinese Studies, is quoted in an article by Cary Huang.
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• 20 December 2008: Lion of Jordan - The Financial Times
  James Urquhart reviews Lion of Jordan: The Life of King Hussein in War and Peace by Avi Shlaim, Professor of International Relations.
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• 18 December 2008: Letters: Lessons of Zimbabwe - London Review of Books
  Terence Ranger, Emeritus Fellow and former Rhodes Professor of Race Relations, discusses Zimbabwean politics.
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• 18 December 2008: On an auspicious anniversary, here are four keys to China's peaceful rise - The Guardian
  Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of European Studies and Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow, comments that ensuring peace is mainly up to the Chinese themselves. But after 30 years of opening to the world, some things depend on the rest of us.
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• 17 December 2008: OPEC Cuts Production in Effort to Reverse Price Slide - Time
  Robert Mabro, Emeritus Fellow, comments on recent dramatic changes in the price of oil.
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• 16 December 2008: A festive smile from Tony and Cherie ... - The Guardian
  In festive mood, The Guardian analyses Tony Blair's Christmas card and notices that he has been reading Margaret MacMillan's Peacemakers: Six Months that Changed the World.
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• 12 December 2008: UK launches 'global brains trust' to promote economy - Press Trust of India (also in The Frontier Post, Pakistan)
  Paul Collier, Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies, has been named as co-director of the new International Growth Centre which aims to provide practical help to promote economic growth in developing countries.
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• 11 December 2008: A bonus culture that ruined the City is also ruining Africa - The Guardian
  Paul Collier, Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies, argues that in an echo of the financial crisis, corrupt incentives in African politics offer an intellectual veneer for grotesque greed.
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• 11 December 2008: What Britain still has in spades is cultural power. Let's cultivate it - The Guardian
  Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of European Studies and Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow, comments that across the world, people who have never heard of our leaders dote on our footballers, and the SAS is outshone by Quidditch.
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• 10 December 2008: Holy sites need legal protection, say speakers at Rome conference - Catholic News Service
  Tariq Ramadan, Research Fellow, speaks in favour of the protection of holy sites.
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• 10 December 2008: Not All Quiet On The Profile Front - Book2Book (also in The Bookseller)
  Margaret MacMillan, Warden of St Antony's, has signed a deal with Profile to write a major history of the events leading up to the First World War. Entitled 1914, it will be available in time for the centenary of the start of the war.
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• 9 December 2008: The Today Programme - BBC Radio 4
  Othon Anastasakis, Director of South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX), discusses the riots in Greece which erupted after a 15-year-old boy was shot and killed by police.
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• 9 December 2008: Scholar calls Muslims to action - The Record, Canada
  Mirko Petricevic interviews Tariq Ramadan, Research Fellow, about his beliefs and his new book, Radical Reform: Islamic Ethics and Liberation.
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• 4 December 2008: Europe’s Islam Question - The Guardian
  Tariq Ramadan, Research Fellow, discusses the place of Muslims in Europe.
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• 4 December 2008: Books of the year - The Economist
  Three Antonians feature in The Economist's 'Pick of the Pile'. David Marquand - Britain Since 1918: The Strange Career of British Democracy; Mohamed El-Erian - When Markets Collide: Investment Strategies for the Age of Global Economic Change; and Jane Mayer - The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals.
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• 4 December 2008: China's economic success may soon bring trouble. It would be ours too. - The Guardian
  Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of European Studies and Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow, argues that if China's reformers fail in their plan to seek incremental political changes to complement the country's phenomenal growth, it could mean war.
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• 4 December 2008: The Remarkable Reign of King Hussein - The Washington Post
  Sandra Mackey reviews Lion of Jordan: The Life of King Hussein in War and Peace by Avi Shlaim, Professor of International Relations.
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• 4 December 2008: Ramadan lectures at Laurier - Cord Weekly, official student newspaper of Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
  Alanna Wallace reports on a lecture on politics and human rights by Tariq Ramadan, Research Fellow.
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• 2 December 2008: Christmas books: economics - The Daily Telegraph
  The Bottom Billion by Paul Collier, Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies, is recommended as a good Christmas gift.
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• 2 December 2008: Chairman of the board - The Bangkok Post
  Dr Tej Bunnag, alumnus and former Foreign Minister of Thailand, has been appointed Chairman of the board of trustees of the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT).
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• 1 December 2008: The political fallout from Mumbai - The Guardian
  Jeevan Deol, Research Fellow, argues that solutions to the Kashmir problem and a clear route to a wider India-Pakistan peace are no longer local or regional issues.
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• 30 November 2008: Sunday Book Review - The New York Times
  The Paperback Row column includes The Bottom Billion by Paul Collier, Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies.
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• 29 November 2008: The Done Thing - The Spectator, p51
  Margaret MacMillan, Warden of St Antony's, reviews The Politics of Official Apologies by Melissa Nobles.
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• 29 November 2008: Economics: Money makes the pain go round - The Daily Telegraph
  In his review of Economics books, Edmund Conway says that there is no book on development as well written and authoritative as The Bottom Billion by Paul Collier, Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies.
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• 27 November 2008: Only a strategic partnership with China will keep this new dawn bright - The Guardian
  Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of European Studies and Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow, looks at the prospects for the relationship between China and the West. He argues that deep engagement is the best way to fend off conflict.
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• 25 November 2008: A revolution without rights? Women, Kurds and Baha’is searching for equality in Iran - The Foreign Policy Centre, London
  Geoffrey Cameron, recent alumnus, and Tahirih Danesh argue that women's and minority rights in Iran must not be overlooked while the world focuses on the country's nuclear issue.
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• 25 November 2008: The Thirties in Colour - BBC Four
  Eugene Rogan, Director of the Middle East Centre, is interviewed about the way Palestine was portrayed in footage screened to a 1930s audience.
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• 23 November 2008: Pick of the paperbacks - The Sunday Times, Culture, p56
  Max Hastings recommends Lion of Jordan: The Life of King Hussein in War and Peace by Avi Shlaim, Professor of International Relations.
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• 23 November 2008: The Bottom Billion, By Paul Collier - The Independent
  Tom Boncza-Tomaszewski reviews The Bottom Billion by Paul Collier, Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies.
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• 22 November 2008: Actor wants more civics in schools - San Diego Union Tribune, US
  Following his time as a Senior Associate Member of St Antony's College, the actor Richard Dreyfuss decided to create the nonprofit Dreyfuss Initiative to push for the teaching of civics from kindergarten through to 12th grade.
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• 21 November 2008: Video / Israeli Prof. Avi Shlaim: Settlements turned Israel into apartheid state" - Haaretz
  A video of Avi Shlaim, Professor of International Relations, speaking on the future of Zionism in a panel entitled "Israel at 60: What happened to the Zionist dream?" A fuller version of the discussion can be viewed on Fora TV.
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• 20 November 2008: Here, you can feel the power shift. But we all wrestle with the same problems - The Guardian
  Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of European Studies and Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow, argues that we could learn from Hong Kongers' scepticism towards both western and eastern models.
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• 19 November 2008: Foreign Affairs: Foreign Policy Challenges Facing the Obama Administration - Foreign Affairs, US
  An article by Paul Collier, Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies, is included in a list of articles that offer policy prescriptions to some of the world's most pressing problems.
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• 18 November 2008: NFB Docs In Lineup at International Documentary Film Festival - Broadcaster magazine, Canada
  The film Paris 1919, inspired by the book of the same name by Margaret MacMillan, Warden of St Antony's, premieres at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam on 24 November.
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• 17 November 2008: "Don't forget Africa", Frattini - Italy Magazine, UK
  A report of a speech given by Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini at St Antony's. The visit is also reported in the Italian press, for example: G20/ Frattini: Africa grande assente dai negoziati sulla crisi - Notizie Alice, Italy.
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• 17 November 2008: Richard Dreyfuss Speaks on American Politics, Nov. 24 - SDS Universe, US
  Richard Dreyfuss, Senior Associate Member and Academy Award-winner, will be lecturing on 'Common Senselessness: Political Power and the Alice in Wonderland of American Politics' at San Diego State University.
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• 16 November 2008: Broad environmental remit and benign conditions - The Financial Times
  Nigel Meir, alumnus, is interviewed about the success of the Ludgate Environmental Fund, an investment fund launched in August 07, for which they have raised £17.6m from investors despite the current economic climate.
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• 14 November 2008: Africa expert on the continent's prospects - Citywire TV, UK
  A video of Paul Collier, Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies, discussing the outlook for Africa's economies at the Citywire Fund Selector Forum in Vienna.
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• 13 November 2008: Obama must show the way to a goal set by Russell, Einstein - and Reagan - The Guardian
  Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of European Studies and Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow, argues that we must aim to achieve a world free of atomic weapons by attaining full international control of the nuclear fuel cycle.
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• 12 November 2008: Algeria lawmakers lift presidential term limits - The National, Abu Dhabi
  Michael Willis, HM King Mohammed VI Fellow in Moroccan and Mediterranean Studies, comments on the controversial revision to Algeria’s constitution that lifts the limit on presidential terms and might permit the president, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, to stand for a third five-year term in April.
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• 11 November 2008: Why I went to meet the Pope - Media for Freedom, Nepal
  Tariq Ramadan, Research Fellow, discusses the need for dialogue between religions.
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• 11 November 2008: Lest we forget: Remembrance is one thing, history another - The Gazette, Montreal
  Robert Bothwell, Randall Hansen and Margaret MacMillan, Warden of St Antony's, discuss the importance of historical analysis as well as remembrance.
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• 11 November 2008: Nonfiction Reviews - Publishers Weekly
  A review of Radical Reform: Islamic Ethics and Liberation (OUP, 2008) by Tariq Ramadan, Research Fellow.
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• 9 November 2008: The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It by Paul Collier - The Sunday Times
  Nick Rennison reviews The Bottom Billion by Paul Collier, Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies.
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• 8 November 2008: The life of an Iraqi is worth no less than that of an American - The Guardian
  Tariq Ramadan, Research Fellow, discusses the potential impact of Barack Obama's presidency.
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• 8 November 2008: A delicate balance - The Australian
  Ben Naparstek profiles Ian Buruma, former Alistair Horne Visiting Fellow.
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• 6 November 2008: I saw Americans dance with history, chanting 'Yes we can!' But can they? - The Guardian
  Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of European Studies and Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow, argues that Obama is not just the first black president of the US. He is its first post-ethnic leader, showing the way for a mixed-up world.
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• 6 November 2008: Russia greets Obama with first foreign policy test - ABC News, US
  Alex Pravda, Director of the Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre, comments on the implications of an aggressive speech by the new Russian President, Dmitry Medvedev.
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• 6 November 2008: Catholics and Muslims Pledge to Improve Links - The New York Times
  Tariq Ramadan, Research Fellow, discusses the recent meeting between Catholic and Muslim leaders aimed at deflating suspicion between their two faiths.
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• 6 November 2008: A Fateful Election - The New York Review of Books
  Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of European Studies and Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow, comments on European responses to the American election.
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• 5 November 2008: Obama faces dangerous crises from day 1 - Associated Press
  Eugene Rogan, Director of the Middle East Centre, comments on the likely approach of the Obama administration to Israel and the quest for peace in the Middle East.
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• 5 November 2008: Global Reactions to Obama Victory from Moscow to Beijing to Muslim World - The Huffington Post, US
  Tariq Ramadan, Research Fellow, offers his hopes for the Obama presidency.
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• 5 November 2008: Barack Obama wins historic US election - The Toronto Globe and Mail
  Margaret MacMillan, Warden of St Antony's, gives her opinion of the election victory of Barack Obama.
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• November 2008: The New 
Cold Front - CNBC European Business
  Robert Mabro, Emeritus Fellow, comments on the impact of Russia's recent actions in the Caucasus for energy supplies.
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• 4 November 2008: Wars, Guns, and Votes - The New York Times
  Nicholas Kristof reviews Wars, Guns and Votes, the forthcoming book by Paul Collier, Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies. This argues that the international community focuses too much on holding elections rather than building broader systems of accountability to improve stability and security in poor countries.
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• 4 November 2008: Dialogue avec le pape Benoît XVI - Le Monde, France (in French)
  Tariq Ramadan, Research Fellow, discusses the recent meeting between the Pope and Muslim leaders.
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• 4 November 2008: Leading UK universities back Qatar robotic research. Links include endowment of chair at Oxford - The Guardian
  A report on the endowment of the His Highness Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani chair in contemporary Islamic studies, to be linked with the Middle East Centre at St Antony's, by the Qatar Foundation.
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• 4 November 2008: A hope called Obama - The News International, Pakistan (Also in The Bangkok Post)
  Tariq Ramadan, Research Fellow, suggests that as US President, Barack Obama would offer more hope to Muslims around the world.
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• 3 November 2008: Qatar Foundation signs partnership with UK's Imperial College London and University of Oxford - AME Info, Dubai (Also reported in The Gulf Times)
  The Qatar Foundation has endowed the His Highness Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani Chair in Contemporary Islamic Studies at Oxford University, together with funding for conferences, lecture series, seminars and publications. The post-holder will be a member of the Faculty of Oriental Studies and a fellow of St Antony's College.
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• 3 November 2008: Naive faith in the ballot box - The Guardian
  Paul Collier, Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies, argues that the catastrophe in Congo is a grave international failure. Hasty elections can make things worse.
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• 3 November 2008: Why I'm going to meet the Pope - The Guardian
  Tariq Ramadan, Research Fellow, explains that it is a matter of greatest urgency that a Christian-Muslim dialogue on theological issues and broader values takes place.
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• 1 November 2008: Globe trotting through Missouri, Kansas - The Kansas City Star
  Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of European Studies and Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow, joins columnist Lewis Diuguid for dinner and a local view of the election.
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• 1 November 2008: Interview with Tim O’Neill - United Church Observer, Canada
  Tim O'Neill, a former Bank of Montreal chief economist, discusses his economic views and agrees with arguments put forward by Paul Collier, Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies.
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• November 2008: Intelligence and human rights in the era of global terrorism - Booknews.com (page 174)
  A brief review of the paperback reprint of Intelligence and human rights in the era of global terrorism by Steve Tsang, Director of the Pluscarden Programme for the Study of Global Terrorism and Intelligence.
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• November 2008: Lion of Jordan by Avi Shlaim - Commentary Magazine, US
  Robert B Satloff reviews Lion of Jordan: The Life of King Hussein in War and Peace by Avi Shlaim, Professor of International Relations.
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• 30 October 2008: Overseas votes could decide next week's election - The National Business Review, New Zealand
  Research by Alan Gamlen, current student, shows that expatriates could have a significant effect on the forthcoming New Zealand election.
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• 30 October 2008: Even in the rural heartland, Obama has sparked an explosive conversation - The Guardian
  Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of European Studies and Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow, comments from Missouri that in this weathervane state they love God and guns. But they also see the long shadows of slavery and discrimination.
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• 28 October 2008: 'Monkey: Journey to the West': the story - Time Out
  Steve Tsang, Louis Cha Senior Research Fellow in Modern Chinese Studies, is quoted in an article about the Chinese epic.
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• 27 October 2008: Morocco still tied to former colonial master - The National, Abu Dhabi
  Michael Willis, HM King Mohammed VI Fellow in Moroccan and Mediterranean Studies, comments on the close ties between the Moroccan elite and France.
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• 26 October 2008: The Maple Leaf and Union Jack - The Toronto Star, Canada
  Margaret MacMillan, Warden of St Antony's, speaks at a conference on The Other Special Relationship: Anglo-Canadian Relations from the Churchill Era to the Present Day.
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• 24 October 2008: China Urged to Fight Crisis by Asia, Europe Leaders - Bloomberg.com
  Steve Tsang, Louis Cha Senior Research Fellow in Modern Chinese Studies, is quoted regarding the impact of the financial crisis on China.
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• November/December 2008: The Politics of Hunger: How Illusion and Greed Fan the Food Crisis - Foreign Affairs, US
  Paul Collier, Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies, argues that politicians have it in their power to solve the food crisis, but they must be willing to end the biases against big commercial farms and genetically modified crops and do away with farm subsidies.
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• 23 October 2008: The shadow behind India's dazzling success - The Times
  Jeevan Deol, Research Fellow, argues that India cannot bask too long in its economic, literary, technological and sporting glory as potential problems loom.
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• 23 October 2008: The more Obama is tested, the more he shows his presidential mettle - The Guardian
  Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of European Studies and Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow, comments that deep fears have been stirred in this election, but the Democratic candidate holds firm to the calm politics of hope.
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• 22 October 2008: Middle East caught in the crisis - The BBC
  Robert Mabro, Emeritus Fellow, comments on the the implications for the Middle East of the problems facing the global financial system.
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• 20 October 2008: Cluster Concept, Nigeria’s new Industrial Policy - Vanguard, Nigeria
  Paul Collier, Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies, argued that Nigeria should embrace the current global practice of industrial clusters at a day’s conference on International Manufacturing jointly organised by the Lagos Business School Pan African University and the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria.
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• 19 October 2008: Chissano says Kuwait Fund has built road, schools and hospitals - UAE Daily News, United Arab Emirates
  At a symposium in Geneva organized by the Hilton Foundation, Paul Collier, Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies, noted that the problem for landlocked countries with no resources is the issue of connectivity with the markets abroad. He is therefore setting up a system based on e-Bay which will help link the bottom billion with OECD countries.
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• 18 October 2008: The way we see it: leading thinkers share their vision of the future - The Independent, p14
  Paul Collier, Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies, sees the greatest global challenge as being the social integration of poor countries into the affluence enjoyed by the majority of the world's population.
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• 17 October 2008: Profile of Professor Kalypso Nicolaïdis (in Greek) - Eleftheros Tipos, Greece, p9
  Kalypso Nicolaïdis, Director of the European Studies Centre, has been invited to join a 12-member Reflection Group tasked with considering how best to deal with Europe's future challenges. Eleftheros Tipos provides an in-depth profile.
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• 16 October 2008: Tariq Ramadan to attend Segrate Mosque's 20th Year - ANSAmed, Italy
  Tariq Ramadan, Research Fellow, will speak at the celebrations to mark the twentieth anniversary of the Al-Rahman mosque in Segrate, Milan.
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• 16 October 2008: Githongo says his words were true - The Daily Nation, Kenya
  John Githongo, Senior Associate Member, comments on a defamation suit relating to his time as Kenya's Ethics and Governance Permanent Secretary.
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• 16 October 2008: The freedom of historical debate is under attack by the memory police - The Guardian
  Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of European Studies and Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow, argues that well-intentioned laws that prescribe how we remember terrible events are foolish, unworkable and counter-productive. He is a member of the group of historians and writers who published the Appel de Blois in Le Monde on 11 October.
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• 12 October 2008: Group of 12 to reflect on future of Europe - EU Observer, Brussels
  Kalypso Nicolaïdis, Director of the European Studies Centre, has been invited to join a 12-member group headed by former Spanish Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez tasked with reflecting on how best to deal with Europe's future challenges.
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• 12 October 2008: Improving the quality of government expenditure - BusinessDay, Nigeria
  A report of the views of Paul Collier, Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies, as expressed at a meeting with the Nigerian Minister of State for Finance, Remi Babalola.
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• 10 October 2008: Modern History of Greece Conference - Athens News Agency, Greece
  A report of a conference organized by the Greek foreign ministry's Department of Information and Public Diplomacy, in association with South East European Studies at Oxford - SEESOX - based at St Antony's College, and the British Embassy in Athens. The many distinguished speakers included Greek Foreign minister Dora Bakoyannis and Margaret MacMillan, Warden of St Antony's.
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• 10 October 2008: Chad - World Bank: The oil curse, part 2 - France 24
  The World Bank's decision in 2000 to issue Chad a loan for an oil pipeline against the promise that it would use its revenues to fight poverty was recently overturned. A 2000 report by Paul Collier, Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies, is mentioned as stressing the correlation between the economic dependency on raw commodity exports and civil wars.
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• 10 October 2008: Hiding From History - The National Post, Canada
  Robert Bothwell, Randall Hansen and Margaret MacMillan, Warden of St Antony's, argue that if we cannot confront our own history honestly, how dare we lecture others, be they Germans, Serbs, Turks or Russians, on confronting theirs?
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• 9 October 2008: The struggle for Africa - Prospect, UK
  Paul Collier, Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies, poses the question that Jacob Zuma may force Africa to become more democratic, but will this lead to greater prosperity?
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• 9 October 2008: Nigeria: The Man-Leopard Murders - History and Society in Colonial Nigeria - AllAfrica.com
  A review of a book relating to a series of mysterious murders linked to colonial resistance and social change in Africa written by David Pratten, Atiku Abubakar Fellow in African Studies.
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• 9 October 2008: Book Review: Global Warming Distracts from the World’s Truly Pressing Problems - The Heartland Institute, US
  A review of How to Spend $50 Billion to Make the World a Better Place includes discussion of a chapter by Paul Collier, Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies, and Anke Hoeffler, former Research Fellow, which provides calculations for the economic effects of reducing the incidence of civil war.
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• 9 October 2008: The world needs the US to get over its cultural civil war - and fast - The Guardian
  Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of European Studies and Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow, argues that Sarah Palin is the Katyusha rocket of the American right. But so far her attacks on Barack Obama aren't working.
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• 7 October 2008: A chance to crack down on Africa's loot-seeking elites - The Guardian
  Paul Collier, Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies, writes that a silver lining in this grim economic cloud is an opportunity to clean up the banks and halt the corrupt capital flight.
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• 6 October 2008: Deals: Oxford Keeps Collier - Publishers Weekly
  News of two forthcoming books by Paul Collier, Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies.
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• 6 October 2008: Nonfiction Reviews - Publishers Weekly
  A review of Wars, Guns, and Votes: Democracy in Dangerous Places (2009: HarperCollins) by Paul Collier, Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies.
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• 5 October 2008: Zim power deal a mix of fire and water - The East African, Nairobi
  Terence Ranger, Emeritus Fellow and former Rhodes Professor of Race Relations, considers the prospects for political stability and human rights in Zimbabwe.
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• 5 October 2008: Man in the Middle - The New York Times
  Patrick Cockburn reviews Lion of Jordan: The Life of King Hussein in War and Peace by Avi Shlaim, Professor of International Relations.
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• 5 October 2008: Bill Gates Interview; Third World Development; Solving the Economic Crisis - CNN
  Fareed Zakaria, host of Global Public Square, recommends The Bottom Billion by Paul Collier, Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies, which was mentioned during an interview with Bill Gates.
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• 3 October 2008: Songs of war and peace - The Toronto Sun, Canada
  An article explaining how a photograph in Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan, Warden of St Antony's, inspired singer/songwriter Jason Wilson to produce an album on the theme of war and peace.
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• 2 October 2008: British Relations with Iraq - The BBC
  Derek Hopwood, Emeritus Fellow, puts the Iraq conflict in context.
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• 2 October 2008: The US democratic-capitalist model is on trial. No schadenfreude, please - The Guardian
  Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of European Studies and Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow, comments that this week the demands of American democracy clashed with those of American capitalism. And China's premier smiled.
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Antonians who appear regularly in the media

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

• Tariq Ramadan, Research Fellow, presents the weekly Islam & Life programme (click the link then press 'Windows Media Player' to watch) on the London-based satellite channel, Press TV.
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• 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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• Sharon Waxman is an award-winning journalist and author.
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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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• 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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• Jure Stojan, alumnus, works for the Slovenian daily, Vecer.
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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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