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…
There are more questions than answers to the Crimean ‘question’.
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 CIA’s ‘deep interrogation’ and the Guantánamo detention camp came to symbolise the US ‘war on terror’. Yet it turns out that most individuals subjected to the first weren’t thought to merit transfer to the second.
In hardship, people turn to religion for help. Ukraine today is no exception. But is it the answer to the country’s problems?
Recognising there are political elements to any campaign of militant violence makes it less ‘terrifying’ for society and is crucial in developing measures to constrain it.
