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The Helsinki Effect
DIPLOMACY: With a gently satirical outer wrapping and a deadly serious inner core, Arthur Franck's account of the seminal Helsinki Agreement of 1975—The Helsinki Effect—demonstrates just how historic a diplomatic process that was at the time seen as tedious and irrelevant really was.
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The Veto
UN: Expert insiders reveal tensions and calls for reform at the UN, questioning its future amid great-power politics and veto abuse.
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AI, Global Crises, and Visual Storytelling at the 27th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival
The 27th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival (6-16 March) returns this year with a programme that spans explorations of #Artificial Intelligence#, urgent contemporary crises, and a compelling visual identity designed by painter Dimitris Anastasiou. Artificial Intelligence: A Cinematic Exploration This year’s festival presents AI, an Inevitable Intelligence, a tribute dedicated to the intersection of artificial intelligence…
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Mr Nobody Against Putin
RUSSIA: How a small-town teaching assistant became an unlikely whistleblower on the grim reality of wartime propaganda.
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Turkey’s military-industrial complex
MILITARISM: Techno-nationalism has strengthened Turkey's proactive foreign policy, promoted national pride and reinforced the image of a powerful state. The 'zero problems with neighbours' paradigm that characterised Turkish foreign policy in the 2000s has been abandoned in favour of a more interventionist approach under the doctrine of 'security at all costs'. In 2002, the total…
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Pragmatism and repressive politics
TURKEY: This autumn, we met two intellectuals in Istanbul about today's Turkey - and attended a major conference there on political economy. Here, we look at the use of power, freedom of expression, the media, militarisation and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's political pragmatism.
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Trains
TRANSPORT: IDFA best film award winner Polish director Maciej Drygas's entrancing Trains is a mesmerising journey through much of the 20th century by rail, accompanied by a subtly intense soundtrack.
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Let the young die
CONFLICT: Ville Suhonen's study of the cult of youth soldiers in inter-war Finland shows there's nothing new in the old sacrificing the young for their own aims.
