Children of a Lesser God
Prof. Inderjeet Parmar | 30 July 2010 All men may well be born equal but their deaths certainly betray huge inequalities. A month or so ago (24 June, to be precise), Michael...
The Electrical Workers Union versus President Calderon: Class, Struggle, Repression and the Rise of Narco-Power
By James Petras | 28 July 2010 "We are confronting a monster; a force that ridicules, deceives and wants to destroy us". - Miguel Angel Ibara, member of the Mexican Electrical Workers...
A New Low for Colombian-Venezuelan Relations?
By Dr. Guy Burton | 26 July 2010 Relations between Colombia and Venezuela appear to have hit a new low. Diplomatic relations between the two countries were severed by Venezuela's government following...
Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice on Kosovo
By Prof. Stefan Wolff | 23 July 2010 Does the Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice on Kosovo’s Declaration of Independence Resolve Anything? I always tell my students that,...
Afghanistan’s Mineral Wealth: A Blessing in Disguise?
By Prof. Stefan Wolff | 18 June 2010 Ever since the Pentagon announced that it estimated Afghanistan to sit on around $1 trillion of minerals, including iron ore, copper, cobalt, gold,...
Democracy and Judaism in Israel
By Peter Berger | 22 July 2010 Israel was established as both a democratic and a Jewish state. Both qualities continue to be real enough. But there have been increasing tensions between...
Posting From Pakistan
By Walter Russell Mead | 23 July 2010 During the next two weeks I'll be visiting Pakistan at the invitation of the US Embassy there. I won't be there to toe the...
Why Peace Can Be As Difficult As War?
By Zaur Shiriyev | 15 July 2010 Current public policy debates in Armenia and Azerbaijan over a possible Nagorno-Karabakh war are more acceptable to those who want to return to their homes...
Who are “We”?
By Peter Berger | 17 July 2010 A Chinese sage defined a wise person as one who sees things together which others see as apart. Writing a blog implies the presumption of at least...
Orthodox Patriarchate in Turkey Wins One Battle, Still Faces Struggle for Survival
By Alexander Christie-Miller | 17 July 2010 On the picturesque island of Buyukada in the Marmara Sea about an hour’s ferry ride from Istanbul, tourists climb a steep track through pine trees...
Liberal Interventionism R.I.P.
By Gregorio Bettiza | 05 July 2010 While conducting fieldwork in Washington DC this summer, I was struck by the many complaints about President Obama’s lack of interest in pursuing liberal values abroad. “Those working...
The War Over Germany’s Imams
By Paul Hockenos | 02 July 2010 For decades, no one in Germany took much notice of the imported Islamic holy men in their midst. Turkey's Presidency of Religious Affairs sent imams...
Marx Awakes as China Rises
By Walter Russell Mead | 23 June 2010 Most of the headlines that blare at us from newspaper pages and internet sites are noise. Much of the breathless commentary that we get...
Iran Special: Mousavi, Karroubi, and the Strategy of “We Are Still Standing (for the Revolution)”
By Prof. Scott Lucas | 24 June 2010 And so another statement, accompanied by a picture of the two men warmly greeting each other, from Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi. The...
Feminised International Politics: three cases from Latin America
By Dr. Guy Burton | 18 June 2010 What role and impact do women have on politics and international affairs? Nearly a century ago, when suffragettes demanded the vote, a number of...