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Liberalism: The road from serfdom. A conversation with Dominico Losurdo, Tony Curzon Price and Dominico Losurdo Liberalism does not evolve and progress according to some internal process, but because of the historical challenges it has faced. Slavery, colonialism, anti-semitism have all been a part of this. How do religious fundamentalism, environment... Read more » • Email to a friend • Article Search • Why Hamas has no need for Saatchi and Saatchi. , Wasseem El Sarraj There is little evidence that suggests that sanitizing or transforming the Palestinian brand produces much of a return, at least not for Palestinians. Media-savvy westerners arrive in Gaza with usually just one stunning piece of advice... Read more » • Email to a friend • Article Search • Greece’s other imminent crisis , Takis S Pappas Could politics in Greece prove even more dangerous than its economics? It is already a year after Greece was forced to seek a bailout from its fellow euro partners and the IMF but the outlook seems no brighter than before. Despite the... Read more » • Email to a friend • Article Search • How Republican are Alassane Ouattara’s "Republican Forces"? , Moussa Fofana and Yvan Guichaoua The Côte d’Ivoire now needs to enter a period of demilitarisation. This faces challenges in the long and the short term arising from the sort of resistance that developed under Bédié and Gbagbo. But there is hope that genuine... Read more » • Email to a friend • Article Search • The AV debacle, the waste of nearly £2M and the Rowntree Reform Trust, Anthony Barnett The Yes to AV referendum campaign was a fiasco. Supporters of reform - activists, funders and voters - deserve an explanation. A public enquiry should be launched by JRRT, who took a leading role both in funding and organising the failed... Read more » • Email to a friend • Article Search • Green policy in Colombia. Quixotic or corrupt?, Oliver Harvey The divergence between rhetoric and reality in the environmental policies of President Juan Manuel Santos points to real tensions between development and environment, between the desire to lead by example but not to sacrifice opportunities.... Read more » • Email to a friend • Article Search • Gleb Pavlovsky: the final act, Ivan Krastev and Tatiana Zhurzhenko Russian “political technologist” Gleb Pavlovsky is considered a master of political intrigue and backstage games, yet on April 27 found himself dismissed as a Kremlin advisor. His fall from grace was reportedly linked to indiscreet... Read more » • Email to a friend • Article Search • WTO membership: confused by the double-headed eagle, Nicolae Geaman and Rihard Kols Russia has taken seventeen years of WTO negotiations to get to a stage that most candidate countries reach after six. Now, with the country finally on the verge of joining, there is no sign of any consensus at the top, write Rihards Kols and... Read more » • Email to a friend • Article Search • Rape in Pakistan: the real verdict , Ayesha Khan The gang-rape of Mukhtaran Mai launched a nine-year court battle that concluded with a verdict by the Supreme Court of Pakistan acquitting all but one of the accused. Her case illustrates how both the formal and informal systems of justice... Read more » • Email to a friend • Article Search • More Recent Articles Russia: an opinion-poll democracy, Alexei Levinson The politics of fear, Joan Subirats The undesirables of the world and how universality changed camp, Michel Agier The emotions of Britishness and being English, a response to David Mitchell, Gareth Young Our European incapacity, Etienne Balibar A story of moral abandon, Celia Mckeon and Diana Francis oD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of May 16th 2010, Charles Shaw and Mark Weiss A Beginner’s Guide to Scottish Independence and Britain, Gerry Hassan Unique Britain, Danny Dorling Bin laden ‘revenge’ suicide bombing kills 80 in Pakistan, , Oliver Scanlan