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The end of military rule in Egypt is inevitable, Khalil al-Anani
SCAF’s leaders do not have the mechanisms necessary to tighten their grip on power: a coherent ideology, a political organization, and a platform for modernization. That is why military rule in Egypt...
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Durban: failure will be success (again), Simon Zadek
There is no global deal nor any chance of one at Durban's COP17. Fortunately, "Plan B", predicted by the author after COP15, is looking feasible and even healthy. Welcome a profusion of national,...
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Russia beyond 2012: the challenges of the network state, Vadim Kononenko
In a Russia that is neither a traditional authoritarian regime run by hereditary dynasty, nor a true democracy with power focused in official institutions, the distribution of power is best understood...
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Democracy put to the test, José Ignacio Torreblanca
Just as the mechanisms that made democracy function in city states were not adequate for governing nation states, representative democracies today are showing themselves incapable of managing,...
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Europe's choice: Monnet vs de Gaulle, Charles Grant
The pressure of financial crisis is changing the European Union's internal power-balance. The rival visions of two of its pioneering statesmen are in play, says Charles Grant. The euro crisis is...
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Merkel and Sarkozy are proposing a catastrophe that will destroy the left...
The entire continent is being steered towards disaster - for the sake of economically nonsensical policies that benefit only the banks while decimating societies. The Merkel and Sarkozy plan for...
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The Singing Detective, losing one’s skin with irony, clues and no solutions,...
Ahead of a one day conference in London, Anthony Barnett recalls how he felt about Dennis Potter's 'The Singing Detective' when he wrote about it back in 1987. Twenty five years ago, the BBC ran two...
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Gaza: reflections on resilience, Jonathan Chadwick
There is a danger in giving an account of the human damage sustained there that an image will be given of Gaza as a society of victims. Gaza is an exceptional social, political and economic space full...
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Tunisia: Occupy Bardo, Kacem Jlidi
Despite Tunisia's successful election in October, there has emerged a remarkable ideological split in the ranks. In Bardo, protesters are pressuring members of the National Constituent Assembly to...
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How far have Human Rights advanced when poverty is so widespread? , Vijay...
If the measure of a society is how it treats its most vulnerable, then societies everywhere have cause to be ashamed. In a changing and dramatically unequal world, the global human rights system must...
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Illuminating the UK’s lethal detention and deportation conditions, Tom Sanderson
Public interest groups challenge immigration authorities' hazardous policy and practice. Medical Justice, a charity that arranges for independent doctors to visit immigration detainees, convened a...
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Euroscepticism: A very English disease?, Gareth Young
With the Eurozone crises threatening to blow the Coalition Government out of the water, Gareth Young examines the implications for English nationalism and the Union dynamic between England and...
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My evening with the London Met Police Commissioner, Zoe Stavri
An activist, with her own vivid personal experiences of London policing, meets the man in charge: Bernard Hogan-Howe, the new Metropolitan Police Commissioner. My first experience of "Total Policing"...
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Bangladesh: A road map for political disaster, Mahin Khan
Far from being reconciliatory, the government's International War Crimes Tribunal is tantamount to a witch hunt of the opposition. After 40 years, the Bangladesh government is hosting an International...
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The men who knew too little: reflections on the Zatuliveter case , Nick Fielding
The FBI’s investigation into the sleeper spy ring in the USA was an impressive intelligence operation, producing detailed, irrefutable evidence for the public record. The MI5 investigation into...
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Who wrote the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ? , Gita Sahgal
Many of the assumptions about who wrote the Universal Declaration of Human Rights are wrong. Gita Sahgal tells the less known story of the men and women who wrote this foundational, emancipatory and...
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Britain on the edge of Europe , Charles Grant
"I can never recall Britain being so friendless in the EU", writes the Director of the Centre for European Reform who thinks it spells disaster for the UK whatever the fate of the Franco-German pact....
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India’s proliferating relations with Africa , Anirudh Menon
India’s demand for resource security, potential trade and investment opportunities and a strategic partnership with the African Union is similar to that of China; but the approach that each nation has...
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Why I wish I could condemn Cameron's decision whole-heartedly but can't, Tony...
It is now that we really need a genuine democratic European movement with strong civil society roots. But it doesn't exist, and in its absence, the Commission is an untrustworthy institution. I wish I...
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