Spring 2025

Editors Note: David Miliband delivered the Aung San Suu Kyi Lecture at St Hugh’s College, Oxford on 12 February, 2008.

Editors Note: This is the English translation of a speech delivered on November 16, 2007 at the Schauspiel in Frankfurt/Main Germany in the 35th Annual Römerberggespräche (Römerberg Conversations).

When the Courtauld Institute in London announced that they would be holding a conference in April 2008 entitled ‘Framing the Other: 30 Years After Orientalism,’ we were once again reminded of the central role Edward Said plays in Western public …

It is a truism in French public discourse, from either the nationalist or transnationalist perspective, that La Grande Nation has long been in need of a foreign policy overhaul. In 2001, it was the Socialist and former Foreign Minister Hubert …

When the concept for this book was pitched to the editor, Why We’re Losing the War on Terror, probably seemed like quite a safe bet for Paul Rogers. 2006 had been a disastrous year in Iraq, with violence widespread and …

Editor’s Note: This article first appeared in New America, the newspaper of Social Democrats USA, in July 1985. It had been presented in January 1985 as a speech to the ‘Democratic Solidarity Conference’ organized by the Young Social Democrats (YSD) …

An airport is that most modern and liminal of places, a kind of temporary and illusory ground between the worlds of home and elsewhere, a no-place through which we pass, noting the lives occurring around us and sharing in their …

Gina Khan is a British Muslim woman who lives in Birmingham’s Ward End, an area in which men were recently convicted of a plot to kidnap and kill a British Muslim soldier. In this interview she sets her story of …

I am not a certified expert on the Middle East. The fact is I do not have a college degree – yet. But before writing this I pored over articles, essays, embassy cables and street reports. I talked to Iraqis, …

According to historian and intellectual Joseph Massad, Arab cultural traditions have always included a measure of tolerance for same-gender sex practices, without recognising a separate socio-sexual categorisation for those who engage in such practices. Recently, however, there has been an …

Bosnia-Hercegovina, like the rest of the former Yugoslavian republics, has an almost impenetrable history to outsiders and non-experts. A contentious mix of political ideologies, ethnicities and religious beliefs – including nationalism and Communism, Serb and Croat, Catholic, Eastern Orthodox and …

Alongside the fierce resistance against the occupation, another surprise of the Iraq venture of great consequence that requires explanation and assessment is the political rise of the Shia’s and their clash with the Sunni establishment, in Iraq and beyond. Vali …

Editors: The International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers’ Unions calls attention to the brutal political killing of Hassan Hamza, a secular trade unionist in Iraq who was murdered in October. He was the president of the Hotel …

Joshua Muravchik is a resident scholar at The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and the author of Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism (Encounter, 2002). He has written extensively about democracy, human rights, and American foreign policy in …

Editor’s Note: Max Shachtman (1904-72) was expelled from the Communist Party in 1928 for Trotskyism. He broke with Trotsky in 1939 to found the Workers Party- Independent Socialist League (1940-58). From 1958, he was a leading figure in the Socialist …