Month: March 2014

BY WOSSEN KIFLE** | 07.09.2011 Introduction In the war zones of contemporary intrastate conflicts, the health of the population is severely affected by the accompanying humanitarian crises and complex problems,...

Imperialism, Identity and Mass Violence* BY DR. NAFEEZ MOSADDEQ AHMED** | 05.06.2011 Modern empires have invariably been associated with violence. Historical cases such as the European conquest of the Americas...

BY MEHMET OZKAN Introduction With the globalization process, economy and politics are so intertwined that both cannot be analyzed separately. Economic development, international security, global governance and representation also need...

By Assoc. Prof. Saverio Giovacchini | 02.04.2011 Assoc. Prof. Saverio Giovacchini Hollywood cinema has often reproduced the self-conscious American fascination with empires noted by many cultural critics and historians.1 As is...

By Ghali Hassan 11 December 2011   Mention fascism and most peoples' minds turn to Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, Franco's Spain, Salazar's Portugal, Japanese Fascism, Papadopoulos' Greece and South Africa's...

By Ghali Hassan | 02 October 2010   As usual, this year’s commemoration of the 9/11 attacks is marked by hate of Muslims and Islam. From New York to Florida in the U.S....

Prof. Inderjeet Parmar | 21 September 2010   Having declared that History ended around 1989, it seems that some neo-conservatives are keen also to reclaim aspects of History as 'their' achievement....

By Dr. H. Akın Ünver | 17 september 2010   Turkish-American relations have always been defined as a 'strategic partnership'. Almost without exception, decision-makers and diplomats at the highest levels point...

By Dr. Ibrahim Kalin | 14 September 2010 With nascent constitutional reforms, the Turkish political landscape has undergone a major process of 'terraforming'. On September 12, 2010, exactly thirty years after...

By Prof. Inderjeet Parmar | 28 August 2010 Although British Prime Minister, Clement Attlee (1945-51), is properly known as a Cold Warrior no less gung-ho than his Foreign Secretary, Ernest Bevin,...

By Barry Rubin | 16 August 2010 I simply cannot comprehend why so many in the West refuse to see that Arabs can be revolutionaries. It is remarkable that so many...

By Shahid R. Siddiqi | 15 August 2010 Washington uses inaccurate WikiLeaks Intel to whip Pakistan military and ISI and deflect attention from its own failures and excesses.   WikiLeaks founder, Julian...

By Prof. Inderjeet Parmar | 13 August 2010 British Prime Minister David Cameron recently declared his wish to build – or rather renew – Britain's 'special relationship' with India. The likelihood...

By Dr. Guy Burton | 11 August 2010 During the current Venezuela-Colombia spat, one particular comment by the Venezuelan president, Hugo Chavez, was particularly striking – although not necessarily for the...

By Prof. Inderjeet Parmar | 01 August 2010 Even as British leaders, and the media, proclaim the imminent death of the 'special relationship' with the United States, they cannot seem to...