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YPF in the world, Ivan Briscoe
The sudden expropriation of Argentina’s YPF’s oil firm has stirred alarm across Spain, the EU and international business. But the galloping radicalization of economic policy led by a group of young...
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Sergei Udaltsov: has the Russian left found its new leader? , Ilya Azar
Sergei Udaltsov, leader of Russia’s ‘Left Front’ movement, had barely been heard of before the recent elections, but his emotional speeches, hunger strike, imprisonment, not to mention an incident in...
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Partners in democracy, partners in security: NATO and the Arab Spring, Josiah...
Sponsored by the NATO Public Diplomacy Division, the US Mission to Germany, and the Heinrich Böll Foundation, the Atlantic-community.org’s "Your Ideas, Your NATO" policy workshop competition...
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Democracy in Abkhazia: a testing year, George Hewitt
An eventful political period in the Black Sea republic of Abkhazia that began in 2011 with the premature death of its president, Sergej Bagapsh, continued with the election of - then a murky...
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Visible players: the power and the risks for young feminists, Jenny Allsopp
From the student protests in Chile, to the protests of the 'Arab spring' in the MENA region, the debate among young feminists about how to reclaim public space reveals tensions between an...
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'Occupying democracy:' a moral revolution for social justice, Janet Coster...
The Occupy Movement, according to the authors, is above all a call for America to return to its founding roots, working on behalf on all people and not just the wealthy, powerful and privileged. The...
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"Food sovereignty" as a transformative model of economic power, Jenny Allsopp
The argument is being made that “food sovereignty” is an organising principle so demonstrably strong that it has the potential to transform economic power. Can we really invest in it as the ecological...
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Consumed, Jim Gabour
The author is caught by his own consumption, and effects a narrow escape with the help of friends. Exhausted and desperate for a change of mental location, I find myself mid-weekend pawing among the...
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The Arab uprisings, George Lawson
It is a long road from an initial uprising to something that can be called a successful revolution. So far in the Arab region, only Tunisia has met even the minimum criteria of revolutionary success....
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The end of the Murdoch Archipelago, Bruce Page
This week, the media mogul once unquestioningly known as 'the kingmaker' appears before the UK state inquiry into the British press - a day after his son and would-be heir. To mark this moment, we...
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23 April, 2012: Nicolas Sarkozy fights for his political life, Philippe Marlière
Charles de Gaulle once said that the French presidential election was “an encounter between the nation and a man” (sic). Big Charles may have been right in suggesting that this election is about...
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Purposeful inquiry: detoxing the poisoned chalice, Eamonn Baker
Derry/Londonderry is the UK City of Culture in 2013. In a place where names can be rigid markers of enmity, what tools can we use to dismantle the unseeing ways ‘the enemy’ is passed between...
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Some people look unusual — get over it, James Partridge
James Partridge, whose appearance was transformed by fire when he was 18, campaigns for greater social acceptance and understanding of facial and body diversity. Now he's taking on the film industry...
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Time to reframe the debate on the Iranian nuclear programme, Paul Ingram
Debates on the Iranian nuclear programme tend to adopt a Manichean view depicting it as a major security threat. If we want to properly address the issue of nuclear proliferation, it is time to switch...
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Secret justice: making the exception the rule, Aisha Maniar
An anti-Guantanamo Bay activist gives an overview of the UK government's 'secret justice' plans. The piece accompanies Tim Otty QC's detailed analysis of the Justice and Security Green Paper and its...
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Tatarstan’s new activists, Oleg Pavlov
Like many other Russian cities, Kazan, capital of Tatarstan, has seen public protests since December’s rigged parliamentary elections. A particularly striking feature is the youth of many of the...
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The Arab Spring: The End of Postcolonialism - an interview with the author,...
In his new book, Hamid Dabashi argues that the revolutionary uprisings across the Middle East have finally put an end to postcolonialism, and that we must now re-imagine the geopolitics of the region....
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Syria and Iraq: armies, politics, and the future, Hazem Saghieh
The shared experience of military repression and failure under Saddam Hussein's Iraq and the al-Assad dynasty in Syria is a challenge to the Arab world's political elites, says Hazem Saghieh. In the...
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Is the UK Government fattening up defence logistics for the private sector?,...
Is the Government neglecting to scrutinise what Ministry of Defence officials are doing? Or is lack of scrutiny a deliberate and necessary part of the privatisation process? Yesterday on BBC Radio...
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24 April, 2012: What will Marine Le Pen’s voters do?, Philippe Marlière
The president has confessed that if he had not matched Le Pen’s hard-right rhetoric, he would by now find himself in an even more desperate position. But could the strategy of his advisor, Patrick...
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