The already frail economy is beginning to unravel, with revenues down and uncertainty as to how the country will finance itself and pay its debts once the electoral saga comes to an end.
Despite the west’s damaged credibility following the financial crisis, the rule of law has remained as a remarkably resilient idea. This is especially noticeable in China, which increasingly seeks to upgrade its judicial institutions.
Radical Islam has proven, with Washington’s help, a worthy successor to the Soviet Union, a superb money-making venture and great way to build a monumental national security state.
You will be part of the most technologically advanced military on Earth and you will be greeted by the poorest of the poor. Are there fewer terrorists around? Does all this really make a lot of sense?
Powerful institutional agendas have acted to bolster the ‘ghost ship’ obsession. Such symbolism renders the specificities of Mediterranean migration opaque.
It has been exhausting having to confront the visceral divisions among us about the nature of what happened, the roles of religion, geopolitics, and racism. And the possibility that the west, thinking it ‘is Charlie’, has been spitting on their graves.
My friends and I, either in the past or more recently, all had some kind of personal and/or activist link with people among the victims…
Climate change is a long-term issue with low short-term risks for southern Mediterranean political systems. The fear of uncontrollable societal upheavals has pushed environmental matters to the bottom of the agenda.
The latest violence in eastern Ukraine would lead most observers to think an end to the military and political attrition is not in sight. They would be right.
I am for leaving believers in peace. Believers are individuals like any other, neither superior, nor inferior to atheists or agnostics.
Europe’s hypocrisy and latent racism was also displayed after the Paris attacks.
