BBC Accused of Bias on Aleppo
By Patrick Ward* and Salwa Amor** Anti-regime activists in Syria have accused the BBC of bias after the broadcaster used footage of the aftermath of a government attack on rebel-held...
Modernization Theory and “Third Wave Democracy”: Internal and External Impediments to Democracy and Development
Introduction Known mostly for The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of the World Order(1996) Samuel Huntington, like Francis Fukuyama (End of History and the Last Man, 1992), caught the...
Post-COP21 Emission Reduction Pledges are Inadequate – Why?
For ten millennia preceding the Industrial Revolution the Earth has had a healthy carbon balance. Forests, soil and other vegetation roughly balanced the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) entering the...
Terror Bombing in Brussels and Paris
Europe’s Islamist Legionnaires Come Home to Fight Introduction The terror bombings in Paris and Brussels have raised a cacophony of voices, ranging from state officials, Prime Ministers and Presidents, to...
American Establishment Is Sabotaging Sanders and Trump Insurgencies
As the forward march of the Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders primary campaigns continues to defy expert predictions, the GOP and Democratic party establishments, and their corporate-media allies are busily...
An IMF Plot, Greece, the EU and BREXIT
On 19 March 2016, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission team for Greece held a meeting on how to force Greece into further austerity measures. These would entail deeper wage...
Czechia – Is The Czech Republic’s New Name Real?
The Czech Republic wants to change its name. Czech foreign minister Lubomír Zaorálek has led calls for the country to be internationally known by the short, rather commercial-sounding name –...
How Brexit will Reduce Foreign Investment in the UK – and Why that Matters
Foreign investors love Britain, but Brexit would kill the vibe. According to new research colleagues and I have conducted at the Centre for Economic Performance, leaving the European Union could...
Russia: A Global Energy Powerhouse that’s much more than a Petro-state
Russia is not what you think. Most discussion about its energy influence has focused on oil and gas, particularly gas. Russia can be described, and is routinely described, as a...
Why Urban Agriculture isn’t a Panacea for Africa’s Food Crisis
Gareth Haysom, University of Cape Town and Jane Battersby, University of Cape Town Urban agriculture is widely promoted as the solution to the growing problem of urban food insecurity in South Africa...
President Trump’s foreign policy dystopia
After over three decades of living in the United States, one thing that I have learned is never to assume that I understand American domestic politics. Every time I think...
Brussels attacks: why do family members commit terrorism together?
It appears to be increasingly common that terrorist attacks not of the lone-wolf variety involve members of the same family. Some of them, like the San Bernardino attack last December,...
Georgia: Project Aims to Boost Orthodox Church’s Support for EU Integration
Many proponents of European Union integration tend to see the Georgian Orthodox Church as an obstacle on Georgia’s path to Brussels. But a new initiative in Tbilisi aims to make...
Will a 2 Celsius Warming Prove Dangerous? Ocean Circulation Models Say Yes
Studying climate is not something we invented in the 20th and 21st century. Humans have been observing environmental change associated with climate since the early 19th century when scientists first...
Iraq Analysis: Prime Minister Caught Between Status Quo & A Cleric
In Iraq, the menace of radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, leader of the Sadrist Movement, has reared its head again, posing serious challenges to Prime Minister Abadi and his plans...