Articles

Since the end of the cold war, NATO has struggled to find a role. It can find in a focus on human security. Mary Kaldor* The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is a geopolitical alliance. It was constructed during the cold war to counter a potential Soviet threat. NATO forces in …

Taking the Republicans to task. James Zogby* Speaking at a Memorial Day observance last week, President Joseph Biden noted, rather ominously: “Our democracy is in peril.” Politics, if we can even call it that, has become so distorted and hyper-partisan that the shared values, comity and compromise needed for democracy …

Fascism is not just sepia images of yesteryear but a contemporary threat. A liberal-left alliance is needed to counter it. Paul Mason* If you search the database of white-supremacist Discord channels, leaked by the monitoring group ‘UnicornRiot’ since 2018, the word ‘genocide’ appears more than 10,000 times. Often it is …

A look at Israel and the religious right. James Zogby* At a recent conference in Israel, Ron Dermer, former Israeli ambassador to the US, was asked to respond to a criticism. During his tenure in Washington, he focused more on courting conservatives than on liberal Americans. In response, Dermer noted …

Outlining how desalination can help stave off Egypt’s looming water crisis. Beatrice Maser and Heike Harmgart* For millennia and in most years the Nile has provided enough water to support the people who call its banks their home. But even the world’s longest river has its limits, and they are …

If consumers are not given the tools to go green, then their eco-awakening could doom the climate. Isabel Schatzschneider* Biodiversity loss threatens at least one million animals and plants species with extinction. But as we celebrated United Nations International Day for Biodiversity (May 22nd) we saw a silver lining: consumers are …

Diana Buttu* (Guest Essay) Secretary of State Antony Blinken is visiting Israel and plans to visit the West Bank in an attempt to bolster Friday’s cease-fire, which halted Israel’s bombing campaign in Gaza and Hamas’s rocket attacks on Israel. On Tuesday, Mr. Blinken spoke in Jerusalem about his intention to …

James Zogby* In the 45 years since launching the Palestine Human Rights Campaign, I’ve witnessed more tragic wars than I can count, and I have defended Palestinians against more heinous crimes than I can list. During all this time, there have always been American supporters who embraced the cause of …

Europe cannot continue to treat those who arrive on its margins, as in Ceuta, as mere flotsam and jetsam to be repelled. Andrea Mammone* Spanish authorities have returned most of the 8,000 people, who included huge numbers of unaccompanied children. They fetched up this month from Morocco in Spain’s North-African exclave of …

Branko Milanovic argues African countries are not powerless to influence the global economic debates which marginalise them. Branko Milanovic* Is Africa marginalised in contemporary economics and politics, and in contemporary economic and political research? Impressions gathered over the years and a bit of evidence (much more could be assembled) indicate …