When communism ended, Russia’s people wanted democracy. Instead, they got the market and neoliberalism. Now, it appears, some of them want revenge.
What I would like to argue is that this historical and existential process retraced by Kojève helps to clarify the origin and the genesis of the present, European and global, supremacy of economic processes over all other fields of human activity.
The moral degeneration of Israel must not have as its indirect consequence the moral degeneration of the Palestinian solidarity movements, for in a desperate struggle there is such a danger as all sides losing at once. Here are arguments supporting sanctions against Israel, and opposing a cultural
Shia militias, still operating under the control of former Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, are laying siege to Latifiyya, especially the Asa’ib Ahl al-Haqq militia. Failure to address the broader effects of international assistance in Iraq’s fight promises to further polarize Iraq’s communities.
Georgians see the struggle for Ukrainian sovereignty as an analogue of their own fate.
The events of the last several months have proven that all existing mechanisms and arrangements to provide for Ukraine’s security have been ineffective.
EU accession might be said to have ignited the Ukraine crisis. But it's still a long way off.
The crisis in Ukraine put the Azerbaijani government in an uncomfortable position.
Natural gas diplomacy is rather like gunboat diplomacy – only effective if the other side has no gunboats.
The Ammerdown Invitation has initiated here a debate on an alternative security policy for the UK. Mediation is a key alternative to the “militarism” the signatories bemoan.
A major new war has begun in the Middle East. But the Islamic State movement is prepared, and the precedents are bleak.
The American intervention will strengthen the hand of Arab autocrats against their opponents, Islamists and non-Islamists alike. It lends credibility to the 'war against terror' rhetoric that these regimes use as a suppressant to the revolution.
