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Neal AschersonNeal AschersonNeal Ascherson is a journalist and writer. He was for many years a foreign correspondent for the (London) Observer. Among his books are The King Incorporated: Leopold the Second and the Congo (1963; Granta, 1999), The Struggles for Poland (Random House, 1988), Black Sea (Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 1996; reprinted by Vintage, 2007), and the Search for Scotland (Granta, 2003)
Recent articlesAfter the war: recognising reality in Abkhazia and Georgia The war over South Ossetia and its messy, dangerous aftermath is a lesson in collective forgetting. A new political settlement involving independence for Abkhazia and a revivified Georgia is needed to break the cycle, says Neal Ascherson. (This article was first published on 15 August 2008) The Polish March: students, workers, and 1968The spark of the great student revolts of 1968 first ignited in Warsaw. The epic events in Poland that followed belong to the neglected political history of a tumultuous year. Neal Ascherson traces - and recalls - the "Polish March". (This article was first published on 1 February 2008) Poland after PiS: handle with carePoland's stunning election result deserves a closer look, writes Neal Ascherson. The case for pre-emption: Alan M Dershowitz reviewedAlan Dershowitz's advocacy of new rules to codify pre-emptive state attacks in the era of "war on terror" is partisan sophistry with chilling historical echoes, says Neal Ascherson. (This article was first published on 18 May 2006) Who needs a constitution?Britain's lost it, Scotland's found it, now it's England's turn, says Neal Ascherson |
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