John Kampfner, of Index on Censorship, Eric Kaufmann, from Birkbeck College, London, and Dominique Moisi, a founder of the French Institute of International Relation debated the global future of democracy in a particularly lively event in Jewish Book Week 2010. Ann Jungman was there
If you wanted to raise the issue of water privatisation and its effect on the human right to water, you might turn to animation. Particularly if you needed to emphasise the role we all play as consumers in the water crisis
The United States's war in Iraq failed to curb Iranian influence in the region. The war's architects now seek to make Tehran pay for their mistake.
The people of Diego Garcia, Peros Banhos and the other Chagos Islands speak out on Britain’s proposal for a Marine Protected Area
The Liberal Democrat leader wrote this article for the Guardian in 2002. It is now being used against him by a hysterically melancholic tabloid press in Britain. We are proud to republish it.
The Arab-Israeli war of narratives that has led to Holocaust-denial on the one hand and Nakba-denial on the other opposes two entirely symmetrical visions of the origins of this intractable conflict. In Arabs and the Holocaust: The Arab-Israeli War of Narratives, Gilbert Achcar traces a complex hi
Political upheaval in Thailand reaches new levels as opposition threaten counter-protests. Sudan elections criticised, but seen as positive step forward. Iranian leader Khameini labels US ‘nuclear criminal’. Constitutional clause hinders formation of new Iraqi government. Clinton urges renewed pea
Piñera faces earthquake reconstruction and a credibility gap. But the two challenges may come together in an interesting way, albeit under pressure of events
Today’s antiwar movements could become wider and deeper and more united if they took the critique of gender properly to heart
The end of Lula’s eight-year presidency of Brazil is approaching. But the contest to succeed him is deeply marked by his political influence. A vivid portrait of the fluid electoral landscape, by Leslie Bethell.
The chances of an internal resolution of the enduring Cyprus conflict are receding. This reinforces the temptation of many to embrace a “European solution” as the way forward. But the European Union's understanding of democracy is less principled than Greek Cypriots would like it to be, says Huber
The Washington-hosted summit on nuclear security heard Barack Obama warn of the fearful prospect of a non-state group using a nuclear weapon. How realistic is it, and how to prevent it?
