Since the end of the Cold War, academics have turned from convoluted iterations of deterrence theory and strategic posture to considerations of the complex security environment engendered by globalisation and multi-polarity, a world populated by a bewildering range of actors …
After reviewing the ills that beset America, from a weak economy to a misguided energy policy, from failing schools to costly health care, Barack Obama focused on the nation’s mood. ‘Less measurable, but no less profound,’ the new President suggested …
Editors Introduction: In Democratiya 5 (Summer 2006) we published an article on the Korean war written in 1950 by ISL member Susan Green in Forum: Discussion and Information Bulletin of the Independent Socialist League. The Independent Socialist League (called the …
The political trajectory of Nick Cohen is well known, especially to the readers of this journal. Attaining prominence as a columnist for the Observer and the New Statesman, he moved from being an unrelenting critic of Blairism and New Labour …
Noah Feldman is one of the most prolific public intellectuals in the United States today. Fluent in Arabic, with a law degree from Yale and a D.Phil in Islamic thought from Oxford, he is a uniquely qualified participant in the …
Halfway through Part II of his autobiography The Story of My Experiments with Truth, we see the young Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, still only 24, preparing to leave South Africa in 1893 after the successful resolution of the court case that …
Reza Aslan is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at University of California, Riverside and research associate at the University of Southern California’s Center on Public Diplomacy. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Los Angeles Institute …
Editor’s Note: This speech was given on 25th February, 2009, in the House of Commons at an event organised by the All Parliamentary Group on Transatlantic and International Security with the support of the Henry Jackson Society.
Also under review: State and Evolution: Russia’s Search for a Free Market, Yegor Gaidar & Jane Ann Miller (Translator), University of Washington Press, 2003 (first published in Russian in 1994), pp. 176; Days of Defeat and Victory, Yegor Gaidar & …
Despite being a brute and massive fact of human experience, evil is often denatured within liberal-leftist discourse: it is redescribed, recalibrated, recategorised. People do unspeakably terrible things all the time: no liberal-leftist will deny that. But there is a general …
For the past 60 years, democratic theory has more than held a central place at the core of political theory. The collapse of European fascism as well as the opposition to Soviet communism produced a robust discourse about the nature …
‘Call me a crank, but I’ve had enough of reverential nostalgia for The New York Intellectuals,’ declared feminist writer Ellen Willis in 1999. She objected to her fellow liberals’ tendency to pay ‘disinterested tribute’ to Irving Kristol, Daniel Bell, Nathan …
Faced with a collapsing banking system and worsening recession, the United States has embarked on a ‘borrow and spend’ binge of mind-boggling proportions. That may seem ironic, considering that living beyond our means is what got us into this mess …
The controversy sparked off by the Dutch MP Geert Wilders [1] being denied entry to the UK (he boarded a plane and landed in Heathrow only to be sent back), may have generated more publicity for his film, and therefore …
While the ‘Northern Ireland model’ is increasingly cited as applicable to other conflicts, perhaps especially in the Middle East, the truth about the ending of the Northern Ireland Troubles is misunderstood, not least because a myth has been established by …
