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In search of an Israeli left, Joel Schalit and Keith Kahn-Harris The slow death of the "Westminster model", Guy Aitchison The Poet and the Tsar, Olga Sherwood The Battle for Khimki Forest, Yevgenia Chirikova How billionaires can help the world, Lorenzo Fioramonti Kenya's new constrained presidentialism, Siddhartha Haria Will Fini finish-off the Berlusconi saga?, Michele Monni Imposing peace in the middle east, Nicholas Murphy Collective persecution of the Bahais in Iran, Afshin Shahi Jordan’s uranium and Israel’s fears, Heather McRobie
In search of an Israeli left, Joel Schalit and Keith Kahn-Harris Every Israeli news outlet, from the website of the arch-rightArutz Sheva radio-station to the centre-left newspaperHa’aretz, was broadcasting the same story and showing the same video-clip. Aboard the Turkish ferry Mavi Marmara in Cyprus before... Read more » The slow death of the "Westminster model", Guy Aitchison Patrick Dunleavy has another fascinating post up on the LSE Politics and Policy blog in which he examines the future of the "Westminster model" in light of the recent Australian election which delivered a hung parliament in which neither Labour nor... Read more » The Poet and the Tsar, Olga Sherwood Last Sunday, 22 August, more than 2000 people gathered in Moscow's Pushkin Square to protest the building of a motorway through a protected forest in the northwestern Moscow suburb of Khimki. For months local ecologists have been appealing to... Read more » The Battle for Khimki Forest, Yevgenia Chirikova Last Sunday, 22 August, more than 2000 people gathered in Moscow's Pushkin Square to protest the building of a motorway through a protected forest in the northwestern Moscow suburb of Khimki. For months local ecologists have been appealing to... Read more » How billionaires can help the world, Lorenzo Fioramonti Forty of the richest individuals in the United States recently committed to returning the majority of their wealth to charitable causes. In order to ‘inspire’ people across the globe, they have established the Giving Pledge, a philanthropic... Read more » Kenya's new constrained presidentialism, Siddhartha Haria Millions of words have been written on Kenya's constitutional reform process. Therefore given the chance to add yet more words to his vast literature I would like to address some issues that have not been given the attention they deserve –... Read more » Will Fini finish-off the Berlusconi saga?, Michele Monni In the last few days political commentators and analysts have depicted the political crisis within the Italian Government involving Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and his now former ally, the Speaker of the Low ChamberGianfranco Fini, not only as... Read more » Imposing peace in the middle east, Nicholas Murphy Ahead of the return to direct peace talks between Israeli and Palestinian leaders, the forecast is bleak. Over a year of shuttle diplomacy and a few months of bilateral negotiations led by George Mitchell, the US special envoy for middle east peace,... Read more » Collective persecution of the Bahais in Iran, Afshin Shahi Children weeping as the bulldozers come to demolish their homes turning them into twisted metal and concrete piles, adults standing watching their lives being crushed. Is this taking place in Gaza ? Or Harare ? No, this is in Lvel, in the north of... Read more » Jordan’s uranium and Israel’s fears, Heather McRobie A lack of natural resources has long plagued Jordan: along with one of the world's smallest reserves of potable water, the Middle East country is dependent on importing around 95% of its oil. Such energy dependency would pose a problem for any... Read more »