How the West is withdrawing into a bunker of its own making
A chronic state of emergency now infects border politics in the West. But our view of how this has come to pass is too narrow
News Snippets
How prolonged conflicts left Libya vulnerable to climate change
Libya’s agriculture relies heavily on irrigation but climatic conditions are not conducive for good production
LIBYA
Bloggers rally to free medical workers in Libya
In Court
'Dissatisfaction with quality of life triggered Arab Spring'
Standard development indicators failed to predict the outburst of anger in the spring of 2011, says a World Bank report
WHO adopts plan to make vaccines cheaper and more accessible
Calls for transparency around vaccine pricing and procurement
Germs of terror
As terrorists arm themselves with biological weapons, India wakes up to find how ill equipped it is to face this deadly reality
Battle for the Internet
As the Internet becomes the public square and the marketplace of our world, it is increasingly becoming a contested terrain. Its potential for …
The digital is political
Technologies are not just agents of politics, there is politics in their design
Secretive tribunals, hidden damages
Canadian academic Gus Van Harten is well known for his efforts to reform the global investment treaty regime through his research papers, …
India’s many investment treaties make it vulnerable
Senior international lawyer Nathalie Bernasconi-Osterwalder, who heads the investment programme of the International Institute on Sustainable …