The European Union’s South Ossetia Dilemma
Written by PROF. STEFAN WOLFF Saturday, 03 December 2011 16:15 If it wasn’t for the potentially serious ramifications of a further escalation of the current election crisis in South Ossetia,...
Social Opposition in the Age of Internet: Desktop “Militants” and Public Intellectuals
Written by PROF. JAMES PETRAS Invited paper to be read at the “Symposium on Re-Publicness” Sponsored by the Chamber of Electrical Engineers Ankara Turkey, December 9 – 10, 2011...
A New War on Terror?
By AZEEM IBRAHIM | 26.09.2011 Just when the threat of Islamist terrorism seemed to be successfully suppressed, the actions of Breivik bring awareness of the evil engendered by other extremist...
Awake O Ye Silent Religions and Promote Post-Conflict Reconciliation!
Towards an Understanding of the Role of Religion in Peace Building in Kenya* BY DR. SUSAN M. KILONZO** | 07.06.2011 The announcement in the late afternoon of 30 December 2007,...
Conceptualising the Land-Conflict-Restitution Nexus: the Case of Cyprus*
BY PROF. ROGER ZETTER** | 05.06.2011 All refugees and displaced persons have the right to have restored to them any housing, land and/or property of which they were arbitrarily or...
Burning the Bridges and Breaking the Bonds: Social Capital and its Transformative Influence in Relation to Violent Conflict*
BY DR. RICHARD BOWD** | 05.06.2011 Perhaps the most well known academic writing on social capital is Robert D. Putnam who defines social capital as consisting of “the features...
The Death of Osama Bin Laden—What Implications for International Security?
BY PROF. STEFAN WOLFF Now that the dust has somewhat settled after the initial euphoria, triumphalism, gloating, and relief that followed Barack Obama’s announcement of the death of Osama Bin...
Official Development Assistance and Terrorism*
By Assoc. Prof. Bayram GÜNGÖR | 24 September 2010 More than 1,2 billion people try to survive their life below $1, while nearly 2.8 billion population live on less than...
Platonic Lovers Chasing Nukes around the World
The 2010 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) held in May 2010 at UN Headquarters in New York. BY OZGUR TUFEKCI...
For a Pro-Immigration Argument
Dr. Ibrahim Sirkeci | 01 June 2010 In the last five years, parties standing in the UK elections have been forced to debate immigration. The 2005 elections were full of pretty “bigotted”...
Climate change: A serious global challenge
By Kofi Annan | 29 March 2010 The last five years have seen severe global food shortages, soaring energy costs and, of course, the gravest economic crisis for over 60...
NATO: Diplomatic Decorum Going To The Birds In Brussels
Shaun Walker 29 January 2010 Russia’s controversial ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization has been provoking interest, amusement and outrage in Brussels over the past few months with a...
Please, Call Us Islamic
Hayri Abaza, Soner Cagaptay, and Kayvan Chinichian Islamophobia is rising in the West because so many of us confuse Islam with Islamism. This confusion also inadvertently helps organizations like al-Qaeda. ...
The Long War on Terror: Obama Administration Plays Politics with Guantanamo
Prof. Scott Lucas This article from Nick Baumann at Mother Jones is filled with political-insider information, but I think it is a significant marker of how the closure of the Guantanamo...
Debate Still Rages Over Who Won the Cold War
Mark Snowiss The 20th anniversary of the 1989 East European revolutions has re-opened contentious debate over who won the Cold War and what caused Soviet communism to disintegrate so...