※日本版の休刊に伴い、2012年1/2月合併号より英語版のみ発行しております。


Pirates! - The arrgh-ther side of the story (アフリカの海賊の真実)

【Agenda】
Stories making the news this month
06 Unsporting evictions in Brazil
06 Deported without your kids
07 Women vs the army in Kashmir
07 Introducing Hassan Rouhani
07 Austerity angst in Britain
8 Working like a horse
8 Constitutional concerns in Japan
9 Chile’s 9/11
9 Bullies beware
PLUS: Scratchy Lines by
Simon Kneebone, and Reasons to be Cheerful.


【Mixed Media】
32 Music reviews
Black Birds Are Dancing Over Me by Danny Michel with the Garifuna Collective; and Dalmak by Esmerine.

33 Film reviews
Call Girl, directed by Mikael Marcimain; and Foxfire, directed by Laurent Cantet.

34 Book reviews
Another America by James Ciment; Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb; An Uncertain Glory by Jean Dreze and Amartya Sen; Needle in a Haystack by Ernesto Mallo; and A Crack in the Wall by Claudia Pineiro.
PLUS: Also out there...


【Analysis】
The Big Story - Pirates!

10 Empire strikes back
Hazel Healy looks at where counter-piracy is going wrong.

14 Piracy - THE FACTS

15 A pirate’s life for me
Jatin Dua investigates the ever-blurry line between protector and pirate in coastal Somalia.

18 Falling out with the locals
Pirates in Somalia hastened their own demise by alienating communities with their anti-social behaviour, journalist Jamal Osman tells Hazel Healy.

19 In the firing line
Piracy is just one in a long list of problems facing seafarers in a cutthroat shipping industry, reports Olivia Swift.

22 Pirate Primer
An illustrated guide to buccaneers, corsairs and privateers through the ages, from Peter Willis.

24 Outgunned
Dayo Aiyetan and Theophilus Abbah offer a West African take on piracy in the Gulf of Guinea.


【Regular Features】
4 Letters
The debt juggernaut; maximum wages; and stop being mean to vultures.

5 Letter from Botswana
Dining by candlelight is not always a matter of choice, as Wame Molefhe discovers.

26 Country Profile: China

38 And Finally Afghan MP Fawzia Koofi wants women to get out of their traditional closet.


【Features】
28 Europe points the finger of blame
Migrants have become the scapegoats in financially straitened times, reports Amy Hall.

30 Worth their salt
Matthew Newsome meets a social entrepreneur helping India’s salt-workers out of the poverty trap.

36 A toilet makes the difference
Girls in Somalia now have a better chance of completing their education. Katharina Wecker explains.


【Opinion】
37 Steve Parry Comedians take on the clowns.
PLUS: Polyp’s Big Bad World cartoon.