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Law & Justice, Politics

Waiting at Guantánamo

After fourteen years, Mohamedou Ould Slahi may finally have a chance at freedom.

Henry Ace Knight

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War & Security

Global Justice, Politics

Garrison America and the Threat of Global War

The crisis of liberal capitalism has arrived, bringing us to the brink of total global war.

Alex de Waal

Philosophy & Religion, War & Security

Let Loose the Line

Protest is not merely a matter of personal awakening, but of organizing and mobilizing the power needed to change social relations.

Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey

War & Security

A Kurdish Problem

Kurds—the largest stateless ethnic group in the world—can be found on all sides of an increasingly complex conflict that stretches across Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.

Umar Farooq

Global Justice, War & Security

The End of Interventionism

Two new British reports deliver a damning and decisive verdict on the politics of interventionism.

Alex de Waal

Politics, War & Security

Putin’s More Perfect Union

The idea that Putin is driven by the philosophy of Eurasianism obscures the pragmatism of Russia's foreign policy. 

Jordan Michael Smith

Global Justice, Politics

Kashmir’s High Price for Demanding Independence

In the name of fighting radical Islam, Indian troops have gone to war with civilians.

Tariq Mir

Politics, War & Security

Will Peace Bring Justice to Colombia?

Will victims of the war be served by the call for restorative justice?

Lauren Carasik

Politics, War & Security

NATO Has Problems, But Trump Won’t Fix Them

Trump may have just been running off at the mouth, but policy experts agree he’s not entirely wrong about our dysfunctional relationship with NATO.

Simon Waxman

Global Justice, War & Security

Choosing Violence

War is almost always a choice, a madness we go along with.

Oded Na’aman

Global Justice, Politics

Brexit Threatens World Peace and Security

The vote will have consequences far beyond the UK's borders. 

Alex de Waal

Global Justice, Law & Justice

That Lonesome Whistle

Edward Snowden’s actions can be justified, but not as civil disobedience.

Candice Delmas

Global Justice, Politics

Writing Human Rights and Getting It Wrong

The West likes morality plays with clear heroes and villains, in which we play the role of savior.

Alex de Waal

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