Are we standing on the brink of a new kind of nihilistic governmentality, where politics is turned into perpetual theatre, disconnected from any kind of coherent government programming?
US-led war games may look like a defensive manoeuver to us, but from North Korea‘s perspective they do not look the same.
Ukraine’s journalists are often told we need to react in kind to information warfare. But let’s not forget what we can do to de-intensify this conflict.
The UK has long been criticised for its close relationship with Saudi Arabia but it is time to rethink it.
In discussion with Nancy Fraser on identity politics, social justice and an emergent anti-Trump coalition.
An attempt to establish a Kurdish state including Kirkuk is likely to result in a truncated and economically devastated mini-Kurdistan.
The view that social struggle should be repressed is hindering the opposition. Unless the view of the state and its coercive apparatus changes, the chances of wide scale social transformation are limited.
Perhaps an identity-related distinction rather than a geographical one could resolve the dispute more swiftly and on a permanent basis?
Pyongyang is close to its nuclear-weapons goal. Diplomacy – and a sense of history – are now needed.
A meditation on the ‘millennials’ and several of the discussions at Team Syntegrity 2017.
Police and protests meet at the G20: a litmus test for freedom.
Universal jurisdiction has come a long way since it first jolted to world attention with the detention of the former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet in London.
