International

Law and globalisation

Not entirely free, your honour 

The legal profession, like the clients it serves, is well on the way to going global—but especially in India, obstacles to its spread remainJul 29th 2010

Articles from previous editions

Social networks and statehood

The future is another country 

Despite its giant population, Facebook is not quite a sovereign state—but it is beginning to look and act like oneJul 22nd 2010

Computer security

A swarm of many stripes 

Hackers come buzzing in from expected, and entirely unexpected, placesJul 22nd 2010

Spycraft

A tide turns 

Technology used to help spies. Now it hinders themJul 15th 2010

Cycling in cities

Shifting up a gear 

Rent-a-bike projects are cropping up in unlikely placesJul 15th 2010

The quality of death

Grim reapings 

An attempt to rank end-of-life care in different countriesJul 15th 2010

Security and the environment

Climate wars 

Climate change means more conflict is inevitableJul 8th 2010

Sexual equality and sanitation

Flushing away unfairness 

Hanging on too long for porcelain parity is more than a nuisance for womenJul 8th 2010

Articles from previous editions, continued...

Wheat rust and world farming

Rust in the bread basket 

A crop-killing fungus is spreading out of Africa towards the world’s great wheat-growing areasJul 1st 2010

Sanctions on Iran

Anything to declare? 

The squeeze gets tighterJul 1st 2010

Nuclear proliferation in South Asia

The power of nightmares 

China's proposed sale of nuclear reactors to Pakistan will intensify nuclear rivalry with India. But the damage will go far widerJun 24th 2010

The evolving blogosphere

An empire gives way 

Blogs are growing a lot more slowly. But specialists still thriveJun 24th 2010

Copyrighting facts

Owning the news 

Copyrighting facts as well as wordsJun 24th 2010

International bureaucracies

Secretarial work 

Bureaucracies grow faster than they can be prunedJun 24th 2010

Legal confusion on internet privacy

The clash of data civilisations 

Sharply differing attitudes towards privacy in Europe and America are a headache for the world’s internet giantsJun 17th 2010

Climate talks continued

Son of Copenhagen 

The new round of negotiations led to only incremental progressJun 17th 2010

Rethinking the “third world”

Seeing the world differently 

The poor world has changed fundamentally. Others are barely coming to grips with the implicationsJun 10th 2010

Female genital cutting

Ending a brutal practice 

Westerners debate, afresh, how best to stop the cutting of girls’ genitalsJun 10th 2010

Wikileaks

Wiki Gaga 

No technology can protect whistle-blowers from themselvesJun 10th 2010

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