OpenDemocracy contributor on war, genocide and global politics, and more recently on racism, Brexit and British politics. Sociologist and International Relations scholar and author of numerous books, currently a Research Professor at IBEI, Barcelona, and Roehampton University, and Emeritus Professor at Sussex. Also an Independent Councillor on Devon County Councillor, campaigning for the local NHS, and an active supporter of Devon for Europe.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The making of an open and democratic Europe: reading Brexit through E.P. ThompsonThere is no room for Britain’s turning away from Europe to a fantasy mid-Atlantic or neo-Commonwealth position of...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Three realities of the Isis conflictThe west must prioritise civilian wellbeing in any intervention. What might help?
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Published in: openDemocracyUKLabour and the comfort zoneIf Corbyn wins, he will have to be willing to accept some radical changes to the way that politics works.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKHow the SNP-Tory dynamics shifted the 2015 electionFear of the SNP drove voters to the Tories - a fear that Labour's leadership candidates are failing to discuss.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKDevelopment resistance threatens election upset in DevonIn one seat in the South West, the bookies list the main challenger is an independent. What's going on?
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Published in: HomeBoycotting Israel: the situation has changed and I have changed my mind tooThe latest Israeli assault on Gaza is for one scholar an occasion to rethink the fundamental arguments for and...