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Published in: Global ExtremesWhat does Samuel Paty’s tragic murder teach us?Building a strong sense of security, acceptance and respect in society is how we fight both Islamophobia and...
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Published in: Global ExtremesCan social networking platforms prevent polarisation and violent extremism?Our capacity to design social media platforms to prevent polarisation and violent extremism online is contingent...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Charlie Hebdo and the dawn of French McCarthyismAfter a short-lived phase of national unity, critics have stressed that France is now more intolerant. Furthermore,...
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Published in: HomePC thought-bots embarrass themselves with PEN boycottWhat’s really at stake in awarding a character prize to the French satirical weekly?
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Published in: digitaLibertiesFrance’s Intelligence Bill: legalising mass surveillanceThe French government claims its new Intelligence Bill is defined in opposition to the American and British models –...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Charlie Hebdo, and being non-EuropeanBeing European is a form of life beyond ethnicity, religion, skin color, or sex; it is a peculiar ontology that is...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaBliss Was It in that Dawn to Be Next DoorDaesh's depravity may be as much imitative as original; and the writer considers how the battle over freedom of...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe devil is in the detailsConspiracies theories about the Charlie Hebdo attacks come to the fore in France, blaming the secret service,...
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Published in: 50.50Islam and the "culture of offence": missing the pointIn the age of ISIS, dissent and criticism of religion is a life and death necessity. It has been - and remains - key...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Assessing Europe’s response to the Paris attacksSince rising intolerance in Europe is not confined to anti-Semitism, Europe’s response also needs to be broader.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?What freedom of speech? Of foxes, chickens, and #JeSuisCharlieMost Europeans, at both elite and mass level, have a grossly inflated idea of the extent of freedom of speech in...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Will the democratic debate over counterrorism gain the edge in battle?It is our role, as citizens, to scrutinise measures taken in the name of our security and ask, once and for all, for...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe Islamic State's arrival in GazaWith a never-ending siege on Gaza, the economic capacity of Palestinians has shrunk to an unbearable limit where...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaOn Arab-Arab racismIn the Arab World, elites are acutely aware of their condition of inferiority in the eyes of the west, and at the...
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Published in: HomeFrance's identity crisis: seeds of change
The traumatic attacks in Paris provoked agonised public debate. But to be productive this needs to range more deeply...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?To be or not to be, Charlie?Three questions not to discuss under this heading, and four more that strike uncomfortably near the heart of the matter.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?No, we are NOT all Charlie: your viewCas Mudde's article on the Charlie Hebdo attacks went viral. Here's what some of you had to say in the comments.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Charlie Hebdo numero 1178: all is forgiven?Mutual recognition between people and cultures moves in mysterious ways, the cartoon its Rorschach test.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Charlie Hebdo: We no longer dream of the Republic. France needs a renewal of faithWere the demonstrations of January 11 the signs of a Republican renewal? No. Less than a third of the Republic's...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Prevent and anti-extremism educationIn fact, the removal of the ‘duty to promote community cohesion’ in schools from the UK's Ofsted inspection regime...
