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Thursday 11th March

Climate science: a peace-studies lesson

Paul Rogers, 11 March 2010

The doubters of global warming are emboldened by their new ability - as in the “climategate” affair - to put climate researchers on the defensive. But the experience of comparable assaults on the discipline of peace studies in the 1980s suggests that hostile scrutiny can have longer-term benefits for the target.

Can lobbying colour our whole UK democracy?

Rosemary Bechler, 11 March 2010

One of the really insistent questions raised throughout the Convention of Modern Liberty one year ago was the one Anthony Barnett signalled in his opening invitation to participate: " What is the problem to which the database state and the surveillance society is... the solution?"

Don't sleep through the dawn of a new era in politics

Joel Cohen, 11 March 2010

Let the Battle for Politics commence.

Putting money where our mouths are

Lyric Thompson, 11 March 2010

Lyric Thompson, in her last report from New York, writes that as we close the 54th UN Commission on the Status of Women, there’s no mystery as to what it takes to close the tremendous gap between policy and practice: money. Best-laid plans are moot if not resourced. Invest in women. As the UN motto reminds us, it's our world.

Haven't we said so already?

Roberta Clarke, 11 March 2010

If the actions recommended by the 1995 Beijing Platform for Action on Equality, Development and Peace were honoured, Roberta Clarke argues that the Millennium Development Goals could be met.

Race, human rights and religion: the UK's Jewish free school decision

Geoffrey Bindman, 11 March 2010

How is it that the President of Britain's new Supreme Court has been quoting the Book of Deuteronomy in reaching an important judgement?

Tackling Russia’s legal nihilism

Olga Kudeshkina, 11 March 2010

Olga Kudeshkina made headlines in 2004 as the first Russian judge to flag up political interference in the judicial system. Dismissed for her resistance, she took her case to the European Court of Human Rights and won. Kudeshkina outlines the continued political pressure felt by the judiciary and the barriers in the way of President Medvedev’s intentions to reform.

Spain's politics of memory

Guy Hedgecoe, 11 March 2010

The Madrid train-bombings on 11 March 2004 provoked a dignified outpouring of collective grief. But the moment was soon reclaimed by Spain’s enduring political warfare over the national past, says Guy Hedgecoe.

Wednesday 10th March

Turkey and Ergenekon: from farce to tragedy

Bill Park, 10 March 2010

An epic military, political, and security scandal continues to absorb Turkey. The affair's latest bizarre sub-plots make the tensions between the country's “deep state” and its constitutional order even more acute, says Bill Park.