The Clash of Peoples
Americans generally belittle the role of ethnic nationalism in politics. But in fact, it corresponds to some enduring propensities of the human spirit, it is galvanized by modernization, and in one form or another, it will drive global politics for generations to come. Once ethnic nationalism has captured the imagination of groups in a multiethnic...
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Climate War
Britain’s International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) warned last month that fears about stability — once hidden by smoke from the debate over the scientific evidence for global warming — are bound to rise to the top of the agenda. “The security dimension will come increasingly to the forefront as countries begin to see falls...
Number of conflicts no longer declining
The trend toward fewer conflicts reported by peace researchers since the early 1990s now seems to have been broken. This is shown in the latest annual report “States in Armed Conflict,†from the Uppsala Conflict Data Program at the Uppsala University Department of Peace and Conflict Research. The findings worry the researchers. The Middle East...
The assassination of Benazir Bhutto
Given the volume of commentary from bloggers throughout the world about the assassination of ex-prime minister of Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto, earlier today in Rawalpindi, Global Voices has set up a Special Coverage page aggregating some of the reactions from Pakistan and other parts of south Asia, as well as their own coverage on Global Voices....
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The Big Challenge
Currently, I’m working on an article where I try to identify the big challenges of our time, as they become more and more visibible last years and politicians seem to be more and more upset with them. Main inspirational source is Chris Abbott’s article and book ‘Beyond terrorism: towards sustainable security‘ at OpenDemocacry.org. In the...
