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The sacred body of the state, Godofredo Pereira The EU's new External Action Service: what would success look like?, Dan Smith Pakistan and America: costs of militarism , Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed Is world poverty declining and if so why?, Michael Edwards Ten Years of War Against Poverty: What Have We Learned?, Michael Edwards Hawking kills gods, philosophers, Tony Curzon Price Dissing Assange, Tony Curzon Price
The sacred body of the state, Godofredo Pereira Venezuela´s president Hugo Chavéz has recently tapped into his country’s most powerful figurehead and source of mythical material, the Libertador Simón Bolívar. This is not the first time – in fact most of Chavéz’ self-styled persona is... Read more » The EU's new External Action Service: what would success look like?, Dan Smith The EU is not a state and will never be one, but nor is it just a multilateral organisation or a trading bloc. It is itself, sui generis. It has huge economic weight its political decision-makers often find hard to deploy. At its best the EU - and... Read more » Pakistan and America: costs of militarism , Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed Pakistan is in the eye of many storms. It lies at the heart of the United States’s almost decade-long “war on terror”, with an ever-ambiguous position (in Washington’s view) as an unreliable and perhaps even renegade ally. It is a society... Read more » Is world poverty declining and if so why?, Michael Edwards Measurements of ‘global’ poverty are fairly meaningless since they disguise enormous variations between different countries, and no-one seems able to agree on what poverty means or how it should be measured – not exactly the ideal basis for a... Read more » Ten Years of War Against Poverty: What Have We Learned?, Michael Edwards Of course, Manchester is no stranger to discussions about poverty. As one of the cradles of Britain’s industrial revolution, the city has witnessed both innovation and exploitation in roughly equal measure, and has always attracted those seeking... Read more » Hawking kills gods, philosophers, Tony Curzon Price Maybe it is the desire to sell books that makes Stephen Hawking claim the death of God and the death of Philosophy. (If you're in the UK, you can listen Hawking make this claim here.) M-theory, a variant of string theory, offers many possibe... Read more » Dissing Assange, Tony Curzon Price There are very serious questions raised by Wikileaks' release of the Afghanistan papers. The greatest is whether Wikileaks' treatment of the information has endangered individuals in Afghanistan. If it has, and if Julian Assange, the... Read more »