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Ivory Coast

Two oligarchic factions tear the country apart

Two “presidents of the Republic", the outgoing Laurent Koudou Gbagbo and his rival Alassane Dramane Ouattara, are tearing Ivory Coast apart. Each of the “presidents” relies on real support at the national level. This internal virtually balanced “legitimacy”, is combined with an external legitimation — characteristic of the limited sovereignty of the African post-colonial states — by the “international community", which is unbalanced.

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Feminism

Interrogating the Feminine Mystique

An interview with Stephanie Coontz about her new book, A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s.

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Bangladesh

Climate change and neoliberal policies: the case of Bangladesh

Located in the largest delta at the world, where two Himalayan rivers, the Brahmaputra and the Ganges, converge and flow into the Bay of Bengal, Bangladesh is used to climatic catastrophes. Half of the land area of Bangladesh is less than 10 metres above sea level. It consists mainly of silt deposited by the rivers which flow down from the Himalayan glaciers. When the snow melts it regularly causes large-scale floods. The coast is at the mercy of cyclones and giant waves which submerge the coastal areas.

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