What images of citizenship are emerging in relation to the processes of decolonization and deorientalization? Speakers including Saba Mahmood and Walter Mignolo will address this question at the second symposium
Øyvind Paasche calls on climate change scientists to get out of their hamster wheel and make an impact. But mostly our writers bring passionate understanding to local issues. Starting in Africa, Adoyi Onoja examines the flaws in Nigeria's evolving model of security, a theme extended by Phil Clark'
The creation of the European Union is arguably the most noble and positive achievement of deliberate international political construction since the end of the First World War. Now it could collapse like the Soviet Union: Ivan Krastev’s careful, masterful comparison is free of all the usual banalit
What’s normal? For thirty years the politics of ‘globalisation’ has tried to persuade us that regulation is inhuman while avarice and the market are natural. Now, in the wake of the crash, a struggle over what is ‘normal’ has begun. In a brilliantly suggestive reflection on France after the electi
As two elections shake Europe, the most powerful figure in Britain for the last 30 years, Rupert Murdoch, is humbled, and we get a new Editor-in-Chief.
Change continues to be worked out on the bodies of women. Hamid Dabashi makes the long-term test of the Arab Awakening the creation of institutions that protect women’s civil
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What other general website covers the huge Istanbul conference on women and development? Emily Esplen traces gender and care; Cynthia Cockburn burnishes gender and war; Sunlla Abeysekera brilliantly rehearses women’
There are a host of global concerns. Paul Rogers asks why the ‘intergovernmental body with the best record in supporting the interests of the poorest’ - UNCTAD - gets the
The Arab Awakening brings out the energy in oD’s open structure, as a dedicated debate space is supported by ongoing sections: from 50:50 Lindsey Hilsum and Nadia Taher, reporting on women in Libya and Egypt; from openSecurity with Sylvaine Bulle’s analysis of Israel’s extraordinary tent movement
