Beyond Blind Optimism
In Political Reflection Magazine, vol. 3, issue 3, Dr. Terry Tucker writes about the role social media played in the Arab Spring and the campaigns against SOPA/PIPA (Stop Online Piracy/Protect...
Twenty Years On: The Continuing Relevance of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities
BY PROF. STEFAN WOLFF | JULY 2012 The mandate of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities (HCNM), agreed by the participating states of the July 1992 Helsinki Summit of...
Global Leviathan Rising: The Emergence of a Transnational Demoi’s Corporeal Form
This argument is based on two specific works. The first is a review essay of Noam Chomsky’s monograph entitled Hopes and Prospects (2010, Chicago: Haymarket). Therein I began trying to explain a...
Social Media Lessons Learned for Political Engagement
In December of 2010 a man in Tunisia self-immolated in protest and what has followed has literally been explosive, as the lessons learned on the use of social media has...
Building a State or Maintaining the Occupation? International Support for Fayyad’s State-building Project
Since the peace process began after the Oslo Accords were signed in 1993, the international community has invested heavily in building Palestinian institutions and preparing for a future Palestinian state...
Intra-Community Dialogue: A Challenge to Racism and Faith Based Prejudice?
This paper arises from action research exploring the extent to which secular and religious peacebuilding may prove to be a resource for contemporary UK community cohesion. The research was centred...
Has Sovereignty Eroded?
From the historic continental United States of America to the savannah lands of Africa through the oil regions of the Middle East to the Asian and Russian peninsula, the European...
What is Wrong with Politics of the Irrepresentable?
It is a common belief in political essays and academic papers that politics have been trapped into a new circle of voting seeking. The well-founded political labels of left-wing and...
Anticapitalism and Occupation
At a recent panel discussion hosted by the Platypus Society at Harvard University, the moderator asked the participants whether Occupy Boston and related Occupations were ‘anticapitalist.’ BY THE CURRENT MOMENT | DECEMBER...
The Power of the Powerless: In Memory of Vaclav Havel
Two men died this weekend. One was a towering literary and political figure, one of my heroes, a man who understood change and freedom and put his life on the...
The Washington – “Moderate Islam” Alliance: Containing Rebellion Defending Empire
The dynamic of democratic, nationalist and class struggles throughout the Moslem world has set in motion a new constellation of alliances between the imperial West (US and European Union) and...
The End of War?: Global Citizenship and Changes to Conflict
Iraq, although it has suffered far too much and far too long, cannot in devastation compare to what Vietnam, Laos, and parts of Cambodia had levelled against them by the...
Political Corruption is Normal Politics – Millionaires Control British politics
Written by PROF. INDERJEET PARMAR Tuesday, 18 October 2011 04:08 Liam Fox's resignation has highlighted a deeper corruption in British politics and national life - over and above the goverment's...
Health and Violent Conflict: The Role of Health in Building Peace
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,...
Colonial Dynamics of Genocide
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...