Libya’s transition has been aided by the fact that it has not had to dismantle the kind of ‘deep state’ that has made the transition in countries like Egypt so difficult. Consolidation will be more difficult.
An interview with Richard Jolly on human development and vision, military threats from within our countries and the prevention of future wars, cosmopolitan spirit, and the need to go beyond global photo opportunities
Middle Eastern revolutionaries and spectators alike, deprived in the media of any representation of their own agency and denied the chance of producing their own new life chances, end up commodifying the identities they are exposed to within their social pattern
Contemporary Britain already has a more-or-less intelligible public moral theory that guides much of its laws and policy. Unfortunately, this public theory is virtually silent on the matter of immigration.
The accounts, symbols and feelings that we have about national identity were largely imagined, created and popularized in the nineteenth century. The word ‘nationalism’ itself dates from the early nineteenth century and marked the increasing use of national identity in order to make political clai
In James Crawford's opinion, the duty of non-recognition of illegal settlement activity does not mandate states to withhold from trading with them. In my opinion, this is incorrect.
A bitter post-Soviet war in 1992-93 saw the Black Sea territory of Abkhazia resist invasion from Georgia and establish an independent statehood. But amid non-recognition from all but a handful of countries, and persistent hostility from Georgia, the young republic has faced many challenges in the
The challenge for UK firms is a serious one - how to conform to the industry’s best practices which they preach in a country where the standard practice is so poor?
This week, a funeral for five hundred genocide victims marked the 17th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide in Bosnia. But with genocide-denial in the regional air, and electoral changes and political manipulation erasing the Bosnian Muslim history of Srebrenica, is the tragedy being both frozen
The nations of the southern Mediterranean, from Morocco to Syria, are all experiencing political change. The nature of this change however varies deeply form country to country which makes a consistent international community appraoch to the region highly difficult.
A young model notorious for her provocative dress, revealing videos, and bumptious mother has something to teach China's cynical political world, says Kerry Brown.
