UN must change
Letter published in The Times, 24 September 2010 Sir, If the ability of the United Nations to deliver results is held back by the self-interest of its member states (letter, […]
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Humanitarian intervention and the Responsibility to Protect
Report from a series of 3 seminars held in 2009 by the Wyndham Place Charlemagne Trust: General Sir Mike Jackson on “Intervention? Protection? Prevention? Military and humanitarian angles of the
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Migration and diversity: creating a society that is at ease with itself
By Keith Best Migration is a global phenomenon, whether it is people with portable skills taking them where they are needed or the forced migration perpetrated by persecution and economic
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Not just who but how
Claire Melamed, head of policy at ActionAid, writes in the Guardian today about the G8 summit to be held in Italy this week and whether it would be better if
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The Gaza war
By Sergio Pistone In the Gaza Strip, a new and particularly cruel chapter of the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians is currently being written. As a contribution to this discussion,
Greening America to green the world
By Professor Satish Desai OBE, 3 December 2008 Introduction The world has experienced many unfortunate events, e.g. the World War II (WWII) that was perhaps the last serious event. WWII was
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A world citizen’s guide to the 2008 crash
By John Roberts News pictures of the world’s financial and political leaders in the past few days have raised irreverent thoughts of “pass the parcel”‘ as they searched for ways
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Global democracy: the case for a world government
By Torbjörn Tännsjö There is no denying that many problems facing humanity have a global nature. If we are to solve them at all, we need to solve them on a
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A fair trial for O J Simpson
O J Simpson is in trouble again. This time he is on trial for kidnapping and robbery, having been acquitted famously of murder back in 1995. A problem for the courts,
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A league of democracies
Most of the discussion about the proposal for a league of democracies – floated most notably by Republican presidential candidate John McCain – centres about the notion of democracy. How
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