Mehrdad Khonsari* The year ahead; with parliamentary elections only months away, is likely to echo widespread public disillusionment. It promises to be another difficult and excruciating period for the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI). Despite ongoing efforts behind the scenes, without any ground-breaking diplomatic breakthroughs; either at the regional level …
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Hussein Haridy How to view the year 2019? It is not always easy to pass a definitive judgement on international events and developments in a certain period of time. Neither is it easy to deal with the totality of world events across the globe in one article, however long it …
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Even in the midst of protracted conflicts, it is possible to make progress towards peace, development and human rights by following certain guiding principles. Andrew Whitley The late UN secretary-general Kofi Annan had a maxim that he often used. He would say that “one cannot have real peace without development; …
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Regulating conventional multinationals is difficult enough but taming digital labour platforms raises even more challenges. Valeria Pulignano and Evrim Tan In spite of their strong and visible transnational character, digital labour platforms are often defined simply as digital networks that co-ordinate labour-service transactions in an algorithmic way. Therefore, how they …
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In our series on ‘just transition’, Marina Povitkina and Bo Rothstein argue neglected issues around quality of government need addressing to secure public legitimacy. Marina Povitkina and Bo Rothstein The challenges which climate change is heralding are nothing if not formidable. Effective policies against this threat to human wellbeing on …
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Why did Labour lose so heavily in the UK? Partly it was ‘Brexit’, partly Corbyn. Nicola Melloni The UK general election was an unmitigated disaster for Labour, which managed to win the smallest share of seats at Westminster since the 1930s. The Conservative landslide means the party leader, Boris Johnson, …
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Combined, Trump’s decisions on Palestine constitute the gravest attack on Palestinian rights since the historic dispossession of 1948. James Zogby Two years ago, Friday, President Donald Trump formally recognised Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. We knew then that it was an irresponsible and cruelly insensitive act; that would do grave harm …
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Christian Kellermann and Mareike Winkler open a Social Europe series on artificial intelligence, arguing that regulation will be needed to ensure prosperity for all. Christian Kellermann and Mareike Winkler What will be the effects of the digital transformation on jobs? Job creation outnumbering digital job destruction is part and parcel …
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Turkey’s escalated meddling in Libya is something Egypt cannot tolerate. It must be halted promptly and with full vigour. Hussein Haridy On Wednesday, 27 November, the Government of National Accord (GNA) in Libya signed two Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) with Turkey that are destined to raise the level of tension …
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Sheri Berman warns that, however self-evident the crisis of this neoliberal phase of capitalism may appear, it will not automatically collapse. Sheri Berman Over recent years, the negative consequences of neoliberal capitalism have become impossible to ignore. It contributed to such traumatic events as the 2008 financial crisis as well …
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