Here's the thing, right? There are two clear underlying causes to all the major problems on earth. The first is overpopulation. Overpopulation means that there are too many people chasing after too many resources - energy, water, land etc. which...
When I started this blog two years ago, crude was priced at $60 per barrel. Now it's $96. The dollar was $1.21 to the Euro then: now it's $1.44. So go the figures. Something is up. There is a big...
Finally, I've found an IR thinker who isn't wrapped up in misconceived notions of 'science', 'method' and 'theory' and sees the field for what it really is - an infinitely complex and mutable non-systemic entity that warrants close examination in...
Will need to check this guy out in more detail... QUOTES: Paul Feyerabend It is conceited to assume that one has solutions for people whose lives one does not share and whose problems one does not know. It is foolish...
Who said democracies never go to war with each other? If this escalates, and Lebanon is extremely shaky at the moment, it's goodbye and good riddance to Immanuel Kant. BBC NEWS | Middle East | Clashes on Israel-Lebanese border Israeli...
It is becoming more and more obvious by the day that the post-Cold War world is not, after all, multipolar but bipolar. The great powers are the US and China. This is especially obvious when it comes to Middle East...
Who says no-one talks about philosophy any more? Guardian Unlimited | Comment is free | Bush has created a comprehensive catastrophe across the Middle East Claiming to move Iraq forward towards Lockean liberty, we hurled it back to a Hobbesian...
If the world were a democracy, 'Chindia' would have the casting vote for sure. But it's not, and the relationship between the Asian giants is a complex one, without doubt. The Economist is swift to point out the theory: The...
No, not Tiananmen, Tiawan, Tibet and torture (hope that doesn't get this website blocked). Now we're talking about the traingular relationships of China, India, Pakistan and the US. I might add Iran in there as well - see below. Asia...
The Asia Times neatly throws structural realist theory straight out of the window. Also known as neo-realism, this Cold War theory rests on the idea of a balance of power between two giants (then the US and USSR); with equal...
Comment is free: The end of the beginning Lots of observation but little analysis, punditry or general smart-arsery from Dan Plesch, associate at the SOAS IR school. However, he does agree with other commentators that current events are part of...
Comment is free: The new world immaturity This is one of those moments in history when people recognise that they are in some kind of interregnum. They can describe the past - the old bi-polar world shaped by the conflict...
The Observer has a theory. There's a new phenomenon in the Middle East, the 'Shia Resurgence' and what we're seeing in the Levant is a little taste of it. The article is balanced enough to give voice to those who...
Oxford Professor and all-round commentator Timothy Garton-Ash takes a timely look at the state of the world in mid-2006. His analysis is bleak. Of course, no writer on current affairs has the benefit of hindsight and it'll be a long...
Cold War Standoff, Lukewarm Co-operation or Something Else Altogether? In Iran is embodied all of the issues of our time: nuclear ‘rogue states’; Islamic fundamentalism; energy security. And both the US and its rising rival, China, have vital interests in...
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