A look at the three main parties’ manifestos confirms that none of them really have any big ideas about the rest of the world.
The conventional wisdom among nuclear-weapons powers is that their arsenals can only be dismantled multilaterally, step-by-step—yet the associated co-ordination dilemmas keep proving insuperable.
What are our values? Equal opportunities? Freedom of expression? Protection of human rights principles? If so, the US is building a frightening track record of alienating and insensitive behavior.
For political reasons, support for British militarism has been seen by successive Labour leaderships as a key test of seriousness and virility.
Shockingly, none of the funds that have been pledged by international donors have actually been transferred to Nepal. We know rapid response is possible when security or economic interests are threatened.
Neither Fatah nor Hamas are willing to accept power sharing, and the division between them is no longer merely ideological in nature.
Despite the challenges involved in rescuing Iraq's endangered cultural and archaeological sites, a recent conference put forward concrete, long-term solutions.
Britain and Nepal share something quite rare in the history of international relations: a veritable friendship between states and peoples.
In examining history, it is hard to avoid the conclusion that a number of major ‘stabilizing interventions’ should not have occurred at all.
Far from being the most vulnerable and weak, or just another form of factor mobility in a globalised economy, migrants may be the most powerful individuals.
While movements in Brazil and South Africa have been fueled by unrealized socio-economic expectations and by explosive growth in India, what they have most in common is the subordination of democracy to money.
