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Felon Voting Rights and Democracy, Rebecca Gould Kosovo, Serbia and Bosnia: after the ICJ , Florian Bieber Soviet anti-religion has returned, claim Europe's last surviving pagans, Geraldine Fagan Vilnius Poker: Ideas for Eastern Europe , Chris Parton Wounded Afghan civilians - Nato's responsibility, Dave Lannen AV timing betrays an accident prone and centralising government, Gerry Hassan Lacking Cohesion? Cameron's National Citizen Service, Andy Mycock
Felon Voting Rights and Democracy, Rebecca Gould A debate is raging in Washington State concerning the legitimacy of denying voting rights to felons. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer has published several editorials over the course of the past few years insisting on the right of felons to... Read more » Kosovo, Serbia and Bosnia: after the ICJ , Florian Bieber “Such declarations are no more than foam on the tide of time; they cannot allow the past to be forgotten nor a future to be built on fragments of the present.” Judge Mohamed Bennouna, dissenting opinion, para. 69 (re International Court of... Read more » Soviet anti-religion has returned, claim Europe's last surviving pagans, Geraldine Fagan The clang of knife on axe blade grates through the sacred village of Pine Grove. Woodsmoke wafts from a low flame amid offerings of boiled eggs, cheesecake, steamed buckwheat and buttered pancakes. Before this altar, eight karts, or priests,... Read more » Vilnius Poker: Ideas for Eastern Europe , Chris Parton The Lithuanian-American academic Violeta Kelertas has referred to Vilnius Poker as a postmodern 'melange of genres': a kaleidoscopic mongrel which operates simultaneously as (anti)hero quest, bildungsroman, murder mystery and philosophical... Read more » Wounded Afghan civilians - Nato's responsibility, Dave Lannen On any given day Nato hospitals in southern Afghanistan enter “condition black” – a status that alerts military tactical commanders that hospital beds are full and patients should be diverted elsewhere.  Commanders’ options are limited... Read more » AV timing betrays an accident prone and centralising government, Gerry Hassan There is a sense of gathering storm clouds for the coalition on the forthcoming AV referendum. Nick Clegg made a statement to the House of Commons on its last day sitting before summer recess, and dismissed any concerns about having the AV vote on... Read more » Lacking Cohesion? Cameron's National Citizen Service, Andy Mycock Debating the "Big Society" > Jonathan Rosenberg > Anthony Zacharzewski > Peter Johnson > This post. The (re-)launch of the Big Society this week conformed to the overly-frantic approach to policy development adopted by the Coalition... Read more »