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World news roundup

From Foreign Affairs, Michael Green (Georgetown) and Derek Mitchell (CSIS): Asia's Forgotten Crisis A New Approach to Burma. Revolutionary youth movements from Serbia to Ukraine: A review of The Time of the Rebels by Matthew Collin. Mandela’s legacy: A global voice that remains silent at home. On world stage, a best supporting actor: Canada is a “middle power”—but what, exactly, does that mean? A review of The Elephant, the Tiger, and the Cell Phone: Reflections on India: The Emerging 21st-Century Power by Shashi Tharoor. Undaunted: First Rory Stewart walked the breadth of Afghanistan. Then he took up a real challenge: restoring traditional architecture in Kabul; and an excerpt from The Places in Between. From Varlik, the production of intelligibility: An interview with Mahmut Mutman on how the cultural polarization between east and west makes intelligible the chaos wrought by capitalism. The Rambo Granny of Melbourne: Gun-toting granny Ava Estelle was so ticked off when two thugs raped her 18-year-old granddaughter that she tracked the unsuspecting ex-cons down ... and shot off their testicles.