Georgia's election: lesson and prospect
The first constitutional transfer of power in Tbilisi has implications for an assessment of the immediate past as well as for the future, says Ghia Nodia. Georgia’s parliamentary elections held on 1...
View ArticleFlemish nationalism: a new landscape
The results of Belgium's local elections has brought victory in the northern Flanders region to the conservative and nationalist but democratic New Flemish Alliance. This represents the transformation...
View ArticleWhy has Barack Obama done so little about America’s most racist domestic...
When Barack Obama was elected in 2008, it was hailed by many as a final triumph over race. Some people muttered at the time that the US remains a deeply racially divided country, and that Obama’s...
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A fresh approach to drugs: the final report of the UK Drug Policy Commission
In this report, UKDPC proposes a radical rethink of how we structure our response to drug problems. It provides an analysis of the evidence for how policies and interventions could be improved, with...
View ArticleWhat the bankers did next... a short film
Since the crash of 2008, British taxpayers have shelled out an incredible £1.2 trillion on bailing out and propping up the banks. Nearly five years on, the UK’s banking scandals seem never-ending....
View ArticleDouble jeopardy: LGBTI refugees in Britain
Issues facing LGBTI refugees are receiving unprecedented attention in Britain yet many still face a ‘double jeopardy’ of racism and homophobia. We need to make the most of the current support for...
View ArticleHobsbawm’s legacy for Labour
Despite all the compliments, we are entitled to ask: what has Britain’s current Labour Party really learned from Eric Hobsbawm? Eric Hobsbawm’s legacy will live on far and wide. Among the attributes...
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Ukraine and Belarus: the dawn of change (perhaps)?
Rigged elections and corruption in post-Soviet states such as Belarus and Ukraine are hardly news. Ukraine’s shift from quasi-democracy towards authoritarianism has highlighted new similarities...
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Our Africa: mapping African women's critical resistance
Echoing through analysis on Our Africa over the past year is a recognition and interrogation of women as authors and innovators of culture, as agents of history, and as complex political actors. These...
View ArticleSyria: neo-anti-imperialism vs reality
Much leftist analysis of Syrian events is trapped by a dogmatic outlook that combines a warped view of geopolitics with inattention to local realities, says Vicken Cheterian. Why are there no...
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Britain is in crisis - Miliband’s One Nation may signal a way out
Britain needs a national conversation on its imperilled political and moral culture. Has the Labour leader had the first word? Ed Miliband’s recent evocation of Benjamin Disraeli’s One Nation...
View ArticleLondon's not yet ready to love its bankers
The author finds himself debating whether the intelligence squared forum in London should vote to "love its Bankers", in a meeting well-stocked with the subject themselves. London should love its...
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Who are the Conservatives now? The One Nation debate
Ed Miliband’s confident evocation of the Tory mantra ‘One Nation’ speaks volumes about the Conservative Party's failure to conserve its ideological roots. But who will benefit from the land grab?...
View ArticlePhilippines Peace Agreement – why this one is different
Nonviolent Peaceforce has not just been ‘monitoring’ the ceasefire in Mindanao. NP teams have been out there every day actually ‘peacekeeping’ in the true sense of that word: addressing concrete...
View ArticleFor South Asians on the “We are all Malala” bandwagon
Given such levels of violence against girls and women, it is a wonder that so many Indians can feel superior while talking about the Taliban assault in neighbouring Pakistan. It will take more to...
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Why Poland is the new France for Germany
Has Poland replaced France as Germany's most trusted European partner? Guido Westerwelle and Radek Sikorski. Demotix/Gonçalo Silva. All rights reserved.RussiaIt needed the tragic airplane crash in...
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Only as creators can we destroy: the opportunity of October 20th
This weekend, after a summer of entropy among anti-austerity campaigns, the TUC will hold a march and rally in London for 'A Future that Works'. Union member or otherwise, this is a vital chance to...
View ArticlePresident Obama: “It’s not true.”
The real surprise was that President Obama explained why so-called "women's issues" are everyone's issues - college students, health care, medicare, social security and equal pay for women and men. He...
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Obama or Romney? The Russian view
Russia may not figure much in American elections, but President Putin finds Mitt Romney’s description of that country as ‘geopolitical foe number one’ useful in his management of domestic politics. He...
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Single nation, double logic: Ed Miliband and the problem with British...
British identity is open and dynamic; those of the nations narrow and bigoted. So goes the 'One Nation' narrative, a logic of dominance and hypocrisy. In the 1970s debates about devolution in Wales...
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