institutions & government: all articles

Everyone likes the idea of fair, accountable and effective international institutions to cope with global economic, environment and security issues. But what form should they take? David Held and Paul Hirst argue for gradual reform within. George Monbiot advocates root and branch democratisation of the UN, and the creation of a new economic order. Other contributors identify key dilemmas and suggest creative solutions.
Friday 16th October

Silvio Berlusconi: the last battle

Geoff Andrews, 16 October 2009
Italy's showman-premier faces a struggle that will test his "postmodern populism" to the limit
Wednesday 7th October

Interview with James Galbraith

7 October 2009
James Galbraith talks about Paul Krugman's NYT article, "How Did Economists Get It So Wrong?",  the academic discipline after the crash, the forgotten traditions in economics, the economics and law of fraud and much else over breakfast at the Goodenough Club
Tuesday 15th September

International Democracy Day: work to do

Halina Ward and John Elkington, 15 September 2009
The global community must recognise the dangers climate change poses to democracy
Wednesday 9th September

Libya’s regime at 40: a state of kleptocracy

Fred Halliday, 9 September 2009
Colonel Gaddafi's domain, now opening to the world, is more protection-racket than modern state

Europe’s global challenge: three crucial months

Paul Engel, Dirk Messner, Simon Maxwell, and Pierre Schori, 9 September 2009
The problems of global economy, climate and security are sharpening. Where is Europe's voice?
Thursday 3rd September

A global financial detox

Saskia Sassen, 3 September 2009
A "small-is-beautiful" reform could begin to cure the fatal addiction to giant credit sources
Sunday 23rd August

Brazil, the United States and Chile: military ghosts

Arthur Ituassu, 23 August 2009
A plot against Chilean democracy in the 1970s has echoes in Colombia and Honduras today

Nepal’s political impasse

Deepak Adhikari, 23 August 2009
The antagonism between Maoists and other political actors casts doubt over Nepal's social peace
Friday 21st August

The hot, flat, insecure world: a governance test

Ruby Gropas, 21 August 2009
How humans manage the interplay of global warming and insecurity will define the century 
Thursday 13th August

How globalisation ends: debtonation-day, plus two

Ann Pettifor, 13 August 2009
As the credit-bubble burst on 9 August 2007, so did globalisation
Wednesday 29th July

The human cost of war: name before shame

John Sloboda, 29 July 2009
A precise record of the individual victims of war is becoming a key objective of humanitarian work
Monday 27th July

Afghanistan and Iraq: western wars, genocidal risks

Martin Shaw, 27 July 2009
The “new western way of war” inflicts great harm on civilians. But how to define this harm?
Friday 24th July

Hugo Chávez and Venezuela: a leader’s destiny

Enrique Krauze, 24 July 2009
A forensic scrutiny of how Hugo Chávez's vast ambition grew in Simón Bolívar's image
Tuesday 14th July

The G8 after L’Aquila: on shaky ground

Marta Foresti and Leni Wild, 14 July 2009
The G8's performance at its Italian summit suggests that it has lost its way on aid policy
Monday 13th July

Argentina's broken polity

Celia Szusterman, 13 July 2009
The powerful Kirchner couple's rule is also the story of a degraded new form of “democracy”
Monday 6th July

America, Russia, and a nuclear-free world

Andrew Mack, 6 July 2009
Behind the Obama-Medvedev progress in arms-reduction, a far larger dynamic is at work
Tuesday 30th June

Sri Lanka - camps, media…genocide?

Martin Shaw, 30 June 2009
What kind of violence has the Sri Lankan state been committing against its Tamil civilian population?
Sunday 28th June

The new executive politics: a democratic challenge

Saskia Sassen, 28 June 2009
A generation of neo-liberal policies feeds a serious democratic deficit inside the liberal state
Wednesday 24th June

Business and human rights: the next big thing

Annabel Short, 24 June 2009
A human-rights lens on corporate power as a path to a fairer world
Tuesday 23rd June

Too little, too late? The UN and the global financial crisis

Dirk Willem te Velde and Alison Evans, 23 June 2009
The UN has been slow in reacting to the global economic crisis. But it could yet play a key role
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