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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
One should never judge a book by its cover, but in this case of this book, it is very hard not to do so. The title suggests the book will be an ideological screed, and it is. The cover has …
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 …
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 …
Kanan Makiya is the Sylvia K. Hassenfeld Professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at Brandeis University, and the President of The Iraq Memory Foundation. His books, The Republic of Fear: Inside Saddam’s Iraq (1989, written as Samir al-Khalil] and …
An important part of the European left saw in the Iraq war – and particularly in the protests against it, notably those in various European cities on 15 February 2003 – an awesome moment. ‘The simultaneity of these overwhelming demonstrations …
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
‘Welcome to regime change, European style.’ So wrote Madeleine Bunting in the Guardian (26 September) on the impending signing of the accession process for Turkey’s membership of the European Union. Bunting argues that the pressure for reform exercised by the …
I am sorry. If you think I am going to sit back and agree with beheadings, kidnappings, torture and brutality, and outright terrorization of ordinary Iraqi and others, then you can forget it. I will not be involved whatsoever, to …
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 …
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 …
Martin Shaw is a sociologist of war and global politics and holds the Chair of International Relations and Politics at the University of Sussex. He studied Sociology at the London School of Economics, graduating in 1968. Martin has been a …
