Russia's beleaguered anti-fascists, Vlad Tupikin
On Tuesday 4 August 2009 the St. Petersburg City Court examined the appeal in the case of Alexei Bychin, a young anti-fascist arrested in the summer of last year. According to witnesses, the trial lasted around three minutes and upheld...
A global financial detox , Saskia Sassen
All complex economies need a strong financial sector. Finance, unlike traditional banking that slowly accumulates capital, can be thought of as a capability for making capital - and hence enabling the launch of major projects. Financial assets are...
Iraq: new alliances, old repression, Zaid Al-Ali
Iraq's main political actors are engaged in intense political jockeying in advance of the country's parliamentary elections scheduled for January 2010. The formation of the al-Ittilaf al-Watani al-Iraqi (Iraqi National Alliance), announced...
Criminalise WMD, Marlies Glasius
In her recent column on dismantling the global nuclear infrastructure, Mary Kaldor proposes criminalising the threat or use of nuclear weapons. Just over a decade ago, global civil society actors largely drove the processes leading to the ban on...
Palestine: seize the initiative, Ahmed Badawi
In his latest European tour, the Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu repeated his demand that the Palestinians must accept Israel as the homeland of the Jewish people before peace could be achieved. In the press conference with Gordon Brown...
Natalia Estemirova, champion of ordinary Chechens, Tanya Lokshina
A heavy, stifling heat envelops the Caucasus in midsummer. During the day the sun fries your brain, your throat itches from the hot dust, and the night brings no relief, only hordes of maddened mosquitoes.
After hurtling along Chechen roads from...
Geoengineering: do we intervene?, Tan Copsey
As part of a series for chinadialogue that examines the environmental and political arguments around geoengineering, Tan Copsey spoke to Ken Caldeira, senior scientist at the Department of Global Ecology at the Carnegie Institution and a leading...
Russia’s three tinderboxes , William Courtney Denis Corboy Kenneth Yalowitz
Denis Corboy is director of the Caucasus Policy Institute at Kings College London and was European Commission ambassador to Georgia and Armenia. William Courtney was U.S. ambassador to Kazakhstan and Georgia. Kenneth Yalowitz is director of the...
Militias, gangs and vigilantes in Kenya, Nicholas Daniels
The Kenya National Dialogue and Reconciliation process (KNDR) led by Kofi Annan brought together the political parties disputing Kenya's 2007 presidential election, reaching an historic agreement to form a coalition government on 28 February...
Mexico drug violence kills 40 in 24 hours, Sarah Gallagher
The latest in a series of violent attacks by drug cartels saw patients of a rehabilitation clinic lined up in a corridor and shot dead in the border town on Ciudad Juarez. It is thought that seventeen people were killed in the attack. Ciudad Juarez...
UN reports that Iran is continuing nuclear program, Carly Nyst
In a report released on Friday, the International Atomic Energy Agency claimed Iran was continuing its uranium enrichment program despite UN Security Council resolutions to the contrary. The UN's nuclear watchdog again criticised Iran's...
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