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3 months agoPakistan US relations: the straw that broke the camel’s back?, Wajahat QaziIt behoves both the United States and Pakistan to reappraise the situation, take stock and course correct. World peace, or at the least regional peace, may depend on it.
US relations…
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3 months agoKenya and Somalia: landscape of tension , Daniel Branch“Kenya doesn’t know war. We know war.” A fractious mix of violence and politics is unsettling the relationship between east African neighbours and putting more pressure on Somalis living in…
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3 months agoThe Abkhazian archivist, , Thomas de Waal
For me the tragic story of Abkhazia’s archive is inseparable from the story of its archivist.
I first met Nikolai Ioannidi in May 1992 in Sukhumi, then capital of the autonomous republic of…
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3 months agoEscapades at sea: sovereignty, legality and machismo in the Eastern Mediterranean , Costas M. ConstantinouThe latest episode of the Cyprus conflict - a dispute over the delimitation of the sea between Turkey and Cyprus - highlights the role of political machismo in the politics of sovereignty,…
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3 months agoRevolutionary change in the Arab world: what prospects for Palestinians?, Ahmad Samih KhalidiIt may be that the era of Palestinian nationalism as it was born, post-1948, is coming to an end. Instead we may be heading in a new direction of unity and common identity across boundaries;…
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3 months agoA war on Iran: the delusive logic , Paul RogersThe arguments for and against an armed attack on Iran by the United States - or Israel - are sharpening. The increasing tension that surrounds the issue could itself precipitate a conflict…
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3 months agoCan Intervention Work? by Rory Stewart and Gerald Knaus: book review, Mary KaldorIt is possible to walk the tightrope between the horrors of over-intervention and non-intervention. Mary Kaldor agrees, while insisting on distinguishing between genuine humanitarian…
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3 months agoA hundred years of bombing: what has it done to us?, Les Back and Paul GilroyNovember 2011 marks the centenary of a world-historic event. An Italian pilot, Guilio Cavotti dropped the first bombs from an aeroplane on to the oasis of Tagiura outside Tripoli. The…
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3 months agoDemocracy in revolution: the Mediterranean moment, Mehmet DosemeciBy showing us the possibility of democracy in revolution, they have ignited a revolution in democracy, one that is redefining the meaning of both terms.
If accounting begins from the…
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3 months agoEVENT | Afghan Rock Freedom Party in Brooklyn, USA, this Friday, October 21, 2011
