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The next Colombia , Adam Isacson openDemocracy - The next Colombia , Adam Isacson
The approach to Colombia’s presidential election on 30 May 2010 is gathering pace. The shape of the unfolding campaign became a little clearer on 14 March. That day, the opportunities to vote included legislative elections to elect the... An upside-down view of governance, Sue Unsworth and Mick Moore
With more than 50 years of experience to draw on, it is dispiriting that so much current debate about international development is still narrowly focused on the effectiveness of aid. This is perhaps understandable in the case of recent policy... Proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider – what’s in it for you?, Ransom Stephens
In the shadows of the Jura Mountains protons are being accelerated to the highest energies ever produced by human beings. Deep underground, in the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the European Center for Particle Physics, which straddles the... Cracking heads open in Ukraine: a neurosurgeon’s story. Part 2, Henry Marsh
I first went to Kiev in the winter of 1992, a few months after the collapse of the Soviet Union. That trip came about almost by accident. An English businessman was hoping to sell medical equipment in Ukraine. There was a famous... Victims of the bulldogs under that carpet, Maxim Kantor
People are hostages to power in the country of our birth. Churchill once compared Russian politics to bulldogs fighting under a carpet: you’ve got no idea what’s going on under there, but every now and then a corpse gets hurled out. ... Are marketised states a threat to peace?, Michela Telatin
The marketisation of security is a prominent facet of the current foreign policy practices of Western states. Increasingly, Western states pay private military companies to fulfil militarised foreign policy objectives. Ongoing wars in... Do not disparage human rights - an open letter to the party leaders, OurKingdom
A group of foundations and philanthropists who are members of Ariadne – the European wide network of human rights funders – have issued an open letter to politicians and party leaders asking for thoughtful, accurate and truthful... Bombers strike at Russian police, Rukeyya Khan
At least twelve people have been killed and eighteen injured after two bomb blasts in Russia's volatile North Caucasus region on Wednesday, two days after a deadly attack on Moscow's metro system killed thirty-nine people. Nine police... |
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