A Brief History of Neoliberalism  

David Harvey has established himself as one of the most insightful and politically relevant social scientists on the left. By extending Marxian political economy into new spheres of social reality – such as the urban environment and space – he …



Crimes Against Humanity: A Normative Account  

Larry May has written a book on crimes against humanity that provides careful analysis of the core issues for anyone – whether lawyer, moral or political philosopher, or plain citizen – interested in this subject. The book is divided into …



Deadly Connections: States That Sponsor Terrorism  

It is an irony of the war with Iraq that we seem to have lost track of the threat of states that sponsor terrorism. Whatever view one takes of its necessity, this highly contentious war has been shoddily presented, haphazardly …



Editor’s page  

Norman Geras reviews Larry May’s Crimes Against Humanity: A Normative Account. He identifies a tension within Larry May’s conception of crimes against humanity, arguing that one of the two central principles at the heart of it undermines the other. He …





Letters Page  

Editors: In his essay Turkey, Islamaphobia, Genocide-Denial in the November- December edition of Democratiya – a review of Taner Akcam’s From Empire to Republic: Turkish Nationalism and the Armenian Genocide – Marko Attila Hoare criticises demands that Turkey recognise its …



Bad News From Israel  

This book focuses on British television reporting of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Readers familiar with the Glasgow Media Group’s earlier work will recognise a continuity of method: chiefly, a political economy approach to the analysis of news media which views reportage …







Archive: The Social Democratic Prospect  

This keynote address was given to the National Convention of Social Democrats, USA, held in New York on July 17-18, 1976. Thanks to Social Democrats, USA for permission to reproduce the speech from their website http://www.socialdemocrats.org







Iraq: The Borrowed Kettle  

If the task of a review is to boil down the book’s content to a series of discrete propositions and subject them to analysis and evaluation, then any book by Slavoj Žižek is strictly speaking unreviewable. Like Hegel, one of …



The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror  

How can democracies defend themselves against the threat presented to them by terrorist attacks, while still remaining recognisably liberal? Terrorism is hard for democracies to fight – defeating it, or even resisting it, requires violence, secrecy, abrogation of rights. But democracies are committed …