Drones may offer an appealing alternative to the US after Iraq and Afghanistan but they don’t provide genuine security.
Little is clear about the US renewal of drone strikes in Pakistan—except that they won’t be the last.
After two months in the global spotlight, the insurgency in northern Nigeria is fast turning into a national political crisis.
At the weekend police fired teargas at demonstrators in Istanbul, attempting to enter Taksim Square to mark the anniversary of the Gezi Park protests—another battle in the struggle for rights and freedoms in Turkey
If madness is doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting a different outcome, the authors of Thailand’s twelfth coup since the absolute monarchy have yet to learn from Einstein’s aphorism.
The last two decades have seen a growing global appetite for peace but unless concerted, informed action is taken the next two could bring darker times
With the mass trials in Egypt of Muslim Brotherhood members in the media spotlight, behind the scenes authorities are drafting wide-ranging “counter-terrorism” legislation which could add another turn to the authoritarian screw.
The arrest of the decades-long leader of the 'republican movement' in Northern Ireland, Gerry Adams, has provoked international surprise. It shouldn’t—but it does provide a lesson in the perils of suborning the rule of law.
Illegal drug trafficking is deeply embedded in Mexico. Collusion between the state and ‘self-defence’ groups is not, however, the answer to it.
The government in Islamabad will face opposition in the coming week to its Protection of Pakistan Ordinance. Is it about protecting the citizen—or the state?
Five years on from the end of the civil war in Sri Lanka, the international community’s patience with the government in investigating gross violations of human rights and international humanitarian law is exhausted.
