The world after glaciers, Øyvind Paasche
The natural rhythm that has characterised climate on Earth during the last 3 million years is broken. It has taken humans less than 200 years to accomplish this. The industrial extraction and burning of fossil-fuels have fed the atmosphere and...
Afghanistan: the point of decision , Paul Rogers
The world media's attention on Afghanistan in the past week has, most unusually, been focused on the country's domestic politics rather than its internal-security situation. The questionable process and equally uncertain outcome of the...
The judicial system in Mexico (part 1), Nancy J. Blake Kathleen Blake Bohne
The words “judicial reform” imply change; a system that has beenstruggling will be transformed into something new and improved. This sounds simple enough, unless of course one is talking about Mexico,...
Israeli settlements and “ethnic cleansing” , Martin Shaw
An intense political engagement over the question of West Bank settlements is continuing between the Barack Obama administration in the United States and the government of Binyamin Netanyahu in Israel. A failure to resolve the issue would be fatal...
The wheels have come off the Putin model, Dmitri Oreshkin
Putin has been a different man at various stages of his years in power. The changes can be roughly divided into three stages. The first stage was mainly a continuation of the Yeltsin tradition, when his opportunities were still limited and he was...
Non-violent action in Gaza, Sameh Habeeb Ayman Quader
The Gaza Strip has lost 1,400 lives and a further 5,000, mostly civilians, have been maimed and wounded in the latest attack waged by the Israeli government. This came on top of an illegal, yet relentless siege that has dragged on and on for over...
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