Unrest in the Middle East, the Turkish response and the Turkish model
The recent uprising in several Middle Eastern countries has caught the West by surprise and has left it unsure about which course of action to take. For too long, the...
People, Power and Protest the Egyptian Revolution and the Arab World
People are making an alternative history while revolution is sweeping across the Arab world. Since the fall of Hosni Mubarak on 11 February 2011, the unfolding pre-democracy protests and uprisings...
Trump Rejects US Electoral System as Rigged if He’s Defeated
Final Debate Confirms Positions – strengths and weaknesses of Both Candidates: Trump Sets Stage for Refusal to Accept Election Result if he Loses The final US presidential debate confirmed what...
Be careful what you wish for: a tale of two prime ministers
David Cameron started his career as party leader with a simple wish: to get the Conservative Party to ‘stop banging on about Europe’. However, he did not have a strategy...
Santos got the Nobel Prize for not giving up on peace – here’s why all Colombians won
Only days after the people of Colombia voted to reject a historic peace deal he spent years negotiating, the Colombian president, Juan Manuel Santos, received the Nobel Peace Prize for...
Research Moves Closer to Carbon Capture Smokestack Solution
Carbon capture is the one back-end technology we have to make it possible to use fossil fuels to produce energy far into the future. You would think, therefore, that the...
Trump signals crisis of the US foreign policy establishment
Donald Trump's bid for the presidency and current position in the opinion polls is a crisis not only of the Republican party – the party of Lincoln – but also...