Dangerous liaisons! Niebuhrians and Neocons
10 August 2009 _ Therese Feiler
Our involvement in the Afghanistan War is inextricably intertwined with that of the United States, whether through a pacta sunt servanda imperative or acceptance of a certain political mindset.* To understand this mindset, we need to poke around a little in recent American intellectual history. Much ink has been spilt on how the Bush era was determined by neoconservatism, but what about Obama’s intellectual background? mehr
Iranian Elections: What did the Iranians vote for?
18 July 2009 _ Nora Mokdad
Iran has decided not to change. Not to change its president neither its political discourse. Iran has decided to wait for the next American offer before it freely compromises, because it is still convinced that it has not lost any of its battles in the last four years, especially those concerning the nuclear issue. mehr
Waves of Mutilation
16 June 2009 _ Ross McKibbin
Unless the opinion polls are very misleading Gordon Brown’s government seems electorally finished: undermined both by longer-term policy failures and, increasingly, by the short-term embarrassments to which terminally ill governments are subject. What went wrong is an important question, not only to the Labour Party itself but to European social democracy generally, since it was Labour which carried ‘third way’ politics furthest and fastest. mehr
Northern Ireland at a crossroads?
23 March 2009 _ Stefan Wolff
For more than a decade, Northern Ireland had been spared from fatal attacks on security forces. Then, within two days, two soldiers and a policeman had been killed by terrorists. Why did it happen, and what does it mean for the future of Northern Ireland? mehr
Public interest information policy in Germany: challenges and opportunities
01 March 2009 _ Jonathan Gray
Terms such as 'knowledge economy' and 'information society' have become central in the political landscape of contemporary Europe. Advances in computing, telecommunications and media technologies have had profound and wide-ranging effects on the ways we live and work.
Growth in the production of knowledge and knowledge-based services has changed the socio-economic makeup of most European countries. mehr