Greece is not integrated enough
A previous post on this blog looked at international trade from the perspective of value added rather than gross exports, that is to say, what proportion of a country’s exports …
Israel
A vote on Palestine at the UN
The non-existence of a Palestinian state is one of the last bits of unfinished business after the end of the second world war, when millions of people were forced or …
Official languages
Letter published in the Jewish Chronicle, 26 August 2011 Geoffrey Alderman’s reference to Norway in his discussion of the proposed new language law in Israel is more relevant than he …
The New Geopolitics of the Middle East: Iran, Israel and Turkey (27 June 2011)
The New Geopolitics of the Middle East: Iran, Israel and Turkey 27 June 2011, 5.30 pm, followed by a reception Mary Sumner House, 24 Tufton Street, London SW1P 3RB Speakers: …
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The dawn of democracy in the Arab world
By Lucio Levi After the fall of the fascist regimes in Mediterranean Europe, in Latin America and in Asia and after the fall of the communist regimes in the big …
Democracy in Egypt: how long is the long run?
The current turmoil in Egypt could end in any number of ways. Perhaps there will be moves in the direction of democracy, to make Egypt look a bit more like …
The Czechoslovakia of 2010
The foreign minister of Israel, Avigdor Lieberman, provoked a storm in a meeting with his counterparts from France and Italy yesterday, rejecting the European approach to the problems of the …
Peace and security are still not the same thing
Given that the Hamas government in Gaza considers itself to be at war with Israel, it is hardly surprising that Israel seeks to enforce an arms embargo against Gaza. All …
The trial of Tzipi Livni
Let me say at the outset that there is no simple answer to this question. The development of the law in theory has outstripped the implementation of the law in …
Peace is more than just a real estate deal
I heard an interesting talk at the weekend by Avraham Burg, a former member of the Israeli parliament and a man on the fringes these days of Israeli politics. That …