| Xenophobia and the Civilizing Mission, Françoise Vergès
Europe’s civilizing mission is humanitarian - its duty to intervene to spread the good word, protecting the oppressed against local tyrants. The conditions by which this protection is granted are always dictated by the protector and never...  The future of Islamophobia: the liberal, the Jew, the animal, Markha Valenta
The ritual slaughter of animals has become the last of many areas of contention that are changing the shape of our public domains. The way in which Islamophobia is becoming a part of our public ‘common sense’ has complex knock-on... America’s military: failures of success, Paul Rogers
The afterglow of Osama bin Laden’s killing fuels the United States’s confidence in its shift towards integration of military and security policy. But it is another grand illusion and missed opportunity. Three... Half a victory: the campaign to free Soviet Jews, Oliver Bullough
 The campaign to give Soviet Jews the right to leave their country brought two diasporas and a world superpower together in an unlikely alliance. Yet while it was a brilliantly fought battle, it could hardly be described as a total triumph for... The Democracy Manifesto: Re-imagining Democracy in Our Time, Bishnu N. Mohapatra
What is The Democracy Manifesto? A global conversation involving academics, civil society and social movement activists from Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin America and North America, has set out a credo for our fast-moving times, followed by... Politics of fear: a frightened left, Josep Ramoneda
Nobody has raised real debates in national or supranational parliaments to discuss the excesses of the securitarian discourse. Quite the opposite: the left has adopted the security discourse wholesale as its own and entered into a kind of... 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.... A story of moral abandon, Celia Mckeon and Diana Francis
Nonviolent power is quickly forgotten when the tried, tested and endlessly catastrophic option of violence re-presents itself to Western powers. Nonviolence is what we applaud. Violence is what we do The news that... oD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of May 16th 2010, Charles Shaw and Mark Weiss
We lead this weeks report with a message from the Drug Policy Alliance's Executive Director, Ethan Nadelmann, on the correlation between America's 40th anniversary of the war on drugs and prohibition related violence in Mexico.... A Beginner’s Guide to Scottish Independence and Britain, Gerry Hassan
Many in England don't understand the country they live in let alone Scotland. Here is a helping hand. This article is part of OurKingdom's debate on The Scottish Spring. It has never been very... More Recent Articles
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