Comment & Opinion - Columnists Archives

20 December 2017
Humanitarian Rackets and their Moral Hazards: The Case of the Palestinian Refugee Camps in Lebanon by Rayyar Marron. Abingdon and New York: Routledge 2016. 188 pp., £110…
19 December 2017
The ability to argue, to express our reasoning to others, is one of the defining features of what it is to be human. Argument and debate form the cornerstones of civilised society…
19 December 2017
Never laugh at a rape joke, speak out against lower wages for women. Don’t underestimate the power of everyday activism to uphold justice. Activism can be as soft as a…
18 December 2017
The “Parenting for a Digital Future” blog has tried to capture the diversity of families’ experiences with the internet around the world by including reflections…
15 December 2017
In this post Mary Kaldor reviews Nathalie Tocci’s book: Framing the EU Global Strategy: A Stronger Europe in a Fragile World  Palgrave Studies in…
15 December 2017
Charlene Jennett and Anna L Cox explore the benifits of citizens' science projects.  On Christmas Day in 1900, the ornithologist Frank M Chapman proposed a new holiday…
13 December 2017
Post-Western World: How Emerging Powers are Remaking Global Order by Oliver Stuenkel. Cambridge and Malden: Polity 2016. 180 pp., £50 hardcover 9781509504565, £15.99…
12 December 2017
On 1 December I attended SOAS University for a screening of the film ‘The Spider’s Web: Britain’s Second Empire’, co-produced by film maker Michael…
12 December 2017
In the wake of the rise of nationalist sentiments in Western nations, Senni Salmi examines how Finland arrived at its inclusive narrative. The term nationalism is not in fashion.…
11 December 2017
Following his previous opinion piece (available here), Dave Anderson sketches the contours of a US peace treaty with North Korea. The North Korea crisis is the most critical…