By invading Iraq and mismanaging the aftermath, the United States precipitated Iraq's collapse as a unified state, but it did not cause it.
It is surely not overly pessimistic to anticipate tension between Kurd and Sunni Arab in the months and years to come, almost regardless of the outcome of the current fighting. But Kurds are looking like much the best sort of neighbour in this desperate region.
An experiment in paying villagers in some of India’s poorest villages a modest regular cash payment without conditions has transformed their lives. It could provide an effective anti-poverty programme for all India’s poor. But which way will Narendra Modi jump?
The great philosopher René Descartes noted: “Let's agree on definitions, and we will spare the world half its illusions.” While International Relations (IR) is still widely used in political science, global governance is better suited to reflect the global transformations and complex inter-linkage
David Cameron, his deputy and even the leader of the opposition Labour Party, all find support for someone you disagree with bewildering.
We need to understand China in the context of a rise of authoritarian political parties and governments throughout the world. South America, far from perfect, is the only region of the world without a clear rise in the influence of anti-democratic, authoritarian parties and governments.
Don’t demand a taster tape early in the process. Trust the filmmakers.
For many Syrian women in Algeria, the gendered experience of violence and displacement has been compounded by the discrimination they now face as women refugees, says Latefa Guemar.
They arrive nameless and unnumbered by land or sea but ever-more unregulated migrants across the globe are falling victim to proliferating border-security regimes.
European citizens through a democratic process or national governments and lobbies? Will Europe integrate and renew democratic legitimization, or remain a loose economic association of neoliberal experimentation?
Internally, Sistani’s words directly addressed the fractured Iraqi political class. They are helping reunite Iraq’s dithering Shi’a factions under the strategic priority of fighting terrorism, and boosting moderate Sunnis.
ISIL is now intent on consolidating its military gains in Iraq. Any western intervention would play into the group's hands.
