The future of Security Sector Reform in the MENA region
Post 'Spring' Arab countries are characterized by a blurring of responsibilities between military and civilian elites. Security Sector Reform is an urgent necessity, and the international community...
View ArticleDutch elections, European consequences
The combination of economic troubles and Eurosceptic pressures will increase the international impact of the Netherlands' latest election, says Cas Mudde. Some 10 million people in the Netherlands go...
View ArticleHamas divided, and a political choice
The Palestinian Islamist movement is uncertain about its strategy in the wake of the Arab spring. This creates an opportunity for much-needed progress in the region, says Nathan Thrall. For Hamas, the...
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Armenia and Azerbaijan: what can societies do when political judgement errs?
Instigating dialogue across entrenched conflict built on ethnic stereotypes is long and precarious. The pardon given to Ramil Safarov of Azerbaijan is a blow to the sense of trust built painstakingly...
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Outsourcing responsibilities: Australia's punitive asylum regime
Australia’s return to offshore detention and processing centres for asylum seekers signals a renewed willingness to renege on its responsibilities to vulnerable others. Removing asylum seekers from...
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'Fight, Fight, Fight': the BBC needs to stand up to its critics in the media...
At its best, television is "an intimate connection" between programme-makers and viewers, argues Armando Iannucci in the annual BAFTA Television Lecture, and to get back to its best, the BBC must be...
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The Roma rights dilemma of the French left
On the Roma issue, the French left must choose: whether to align itself with the forces of progress to combat anti-Roma racism and exclusion; or persist with evictions and expulsions, and find itself...
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Does Abkhazia need a foreign policy makeover?
Abkhazia's limited international recognition has so far only made it more dependent on Russia. Sufian Zhemukhov considers how the Abkhazians might develop their status in the international context....
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While Miami burns... Obama and Cuban-American politics
In this year's election, half of Cuban-Americans who are eligible to vote either came from Cuba after 1994 or grew up in the United States. Unfortunately, the White House is passing up the opportunity...
View ArticleSuicide-bombs without the suicides: why drones are so cool
There are surprising connections across decades and enmities in the evolving methods of armed warfare in the modern world. In particular, non-state actors will soon be deploying versions of the...
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Uh-Oh Levels: England's teachers are right to fear the impact of the EBacc
Michael Gove's critics have been accused of blindly slating anything he proposes without fully listening. Yet this latest policy, grounded in a blind obsession with a return to the 'good old days' of...
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‘We think of Zakir as Nick Clegg’: Taliban perspectives on reconciliation
This summer, former leading figures in the Afghan Taliban and former mediators met the authors to discuss Taliban ideas for a peace settlement. This RUSI briefing paper, affords rare insights into...
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Anti-Islam film protests: a reification of public debate?
Beyond their regrettable cost in terms of human lives, "Innocence of Muslims" and the subsequent protests that spread across the Arab world ultimately entrap the world in a binary entrenchment...
View ArticleCatalonia’s nuclear options
The huge demonstration on September 11, the national day of Catalonia, in Barcelona, under the banner of “Catalonia, a State of Europe”, has changed the stakes. Catalonia has opened the way for...
View ArticleGlasgow's Victorian farewell
Scotland's largest city plans to remove Victorian-era statues from a landmark square. A backward move in the name of progress, says Christopher Harvie. In 1969, I made a film on Victorian Glasgow for...
View ArticleEdwin Ardener: the life-force of ideas
The work of the social anthropologist Edwin Ardener (1927-87) remains a fertile source of insight and influence, says his former student and editor of a collection of his essays, Malcolm Chapman.(This...
View ArticleDR Congo: beyond the crisis-cycle
An eruption of militia-based violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo reflects a longer-term pattern of failure by national and international agencies. The effects are now being felt among...
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Everyday feminism vs everyday sexism
A debate about the feminist economy cannot be brought to the school gates, but a discussion on sexting, advertising and tuition fees can. That's what everyday feminism is and why it must be truly...
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Can men be feminists?
With men leading on women’s issues, even when we win, we lose. Men shouldn’t be the voices of feminism, but we can build and support the platforms from which women's voices call out, says Gavin...
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Kyrgyz migrant workers: does national pride mean violence against women?
Videos recently widely circulating on social networks in both Russia and the Central Asian republic of Kyrgyzstan show Kyrgyz men working in Russia brutally attacking their female compatriots for the...
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