Haiti is tossed by a sea of troubles: economic, social, political, legal, gender, security, and environmental. The fact that so many of them are interrelated increases the challenge of understanding
The conference sponsored by the United States government in Annapolis, Maryland, scheduled for the last week of November 2007 has little chance of brokering a meaningful agreement between Israel and
A series of incidents involving employees of private companies operating as security guards have resulted in the deaths of around twenty Iraqis in recent months. The bloodiest of these was
Mariano Aguirre, Fride
Chukwu-Emeka Chikezie, Afford
Patrice de Beer, journalist
Brian Brivati, Kingston University
Camilla Toulmin, IIED
Godfrey Hodgson, author
Ruth Lister, Loughborough University
Nasrin Alavi, author
Abdul-Rehman Malik, Q-News
At the end of 2006 Kofi Annan will conclude his term as secretary-general of the United Nations and will be replaced by Ban Ki-moon, a South Korean career diplomat and
Bolivian society and its institutions are passing through a tense moment. The political triumph of Evo Morales and his Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) party in the presidential and legislative elections
In the midst of a serious legitimacy crisis over the policies of the George W Bush administration and its war in Iraq, the White House made public a new national
Two years after the 11 March 2004 terrorist attacks in Madrid that killed 191 people and injured around 1,900, Spain lives in a paradoxical situation. On the one hand,
Haiti's legislative and presidential elections on 7 February 2006 were held in a climate of tension, even though there were few major irregularities and less violence than seen
The concepts of fragile, failed or collapsed states are usually applied to states where the principles of territorial unity, legitimate monopoly over the use of force and constitutional law do
In the last days of 2005, leading thinkers and scholars from around the world share their fears, hopes and expectations of 2006. As Isabel Hilton asks: What does 2006 have in store? (Part one)
The paralysis of official America in face of the New Orleans disaster exposes the systemic failures of United States politics, argues Mariano Aguirre.
The aftermath of the coastal catastrophe in
