Today’s hyper-connected world faces big challenges e.g. pandemics, climate change, cyber-crime, financial crises. Can the UN and other international institutions provide adequate global governance?
Who are the Alt-Right? What are their ambitions? What do they really think of Donald Trump? And where do they go from here?
The west vs ISIS: a new stage A UN resolution will intensify the war against ISIS. Such an outcome carries three grave risks, says Paul Rogers, Professor of Peace Studies at Bradford University in this post which first appeared on Open…
The initial optimism of the 2011 Arab Spring has been replaced by oppressive government or brutal civil war. Intervention by the West has been unsuccessful, the US should have learned the lessons of the Vietnam war.
Globalisation has improved nutrition and child mortality, increased income and life expectancy. But turbo-charged globalisation contains systemic risks – growing inequality, pandemics, cyber and terrorist attacks. Are our international institutions up to the challenge?
Growth is a fundamental tenet of capitalism, and growth is driving climate change and environmental degradation. So can capitalism provide a sustainable future for our planet? We explore the views of Marx and Engels, and current Marxist thinkers.
It’s the start of the UN’s 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence, but as the austerity cuts – to refuges and legal aid – have a devastating impact on women’s safety, what is the economic cost of violence against women?
In mid-2013, Barack Obama called for a winding down of the remnants of the “Forever War”. But even while making these calls, the US has maintained that terrorism poses a “continuing and imminent threat” – depriving the notion of imminence of any meaning,…
The UN has called for an end to female genital mutilation. Is ‘zero tolerance’ the most effective way to end this abusive practice?
There has been no satisfactory explanation for the plane crash in 1961 in which UN Secretary General, Dag Hammarskjöld died while on a peace mission to Congo. Was it sabotage or an accident? New leads from the Hammarskjöld Inquiry.
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