David Cameron talks like he can change the fight against Islamic State. But Britain’s international role has been dwindling for years.
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As British MPs prepare to vote on whether to join the bombing campaign against IS in Syria, three peace campaigners make the case against military action.
Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s tale of rural Scottish change between the world wars is anything but narrowly focused. It speaks to our universal sense of injustice and fairness.
Jeremy Corbyn is allowing Labour to vote with its conscience but don’t expect the squabbling to stop.
The group believes that it represents a religion – denying that won’t get us anywhere.
An almighty row has broken out about whether MPs should be whipped when the time comes to decide on airstrikes.
Syria’s demographics are markedly different to Lebanon’s. A power-sharing arrangement would be more difficult to design.
With such an even split among the public and political leaders, here are five reasons why now is not the right time to be putting boots on the ground in Syria.
The downing of Russia’s plane by Turkish military forces over the skies of the Syrian-Turkish border has added yet another layer of complexity to the vortex of conflict in the Middle East. Most of the…
The British PM wants military action in Syria. First, he must convince a reluctant parliament.
Selective sympathy raises troubling questions. If you neglect suffering in other places, it is much more difficult to mobilise political actors to take it seriously.
Environmental factors are important, but we must not ignore history and politics.
With hardliners taking charge of the government and presidency in Warsaw, the migrant rhetoric is looking worrying. But how much will change in practice?
Vladimir Putin has been proved right again as Western priorities shift from removing Assad to destroying Islamic State.
A growing field of policy analysis now focuses on reducing armed violence. Remarkable consensus has emerged at high policy levels around the basic elements of an approach to reduce violence.
Twelve years after George W Bush proclaimed a new era of peace and stability in Iraq, the Middle East is more unstable and dangerous than ever before.
In the flurry of activity since Paris was attacked, the reasons it happened in the first place risk being forgotten.
Who is fighting who – and why.
Australian Strategic Policy Institute executive director Peter Jennings has strongly criticised the decision to lease the Port of Darwin to a Chinese company.
The Paris atrocities came just as Assad’s military position was improving. Can the dictator harness international fury at Islamic State to strengthen his position in Syria?
Top contributors
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Professor of International Politics, Clinton Institute, University College Dublin
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Professor of Peace Studies, University of Bradford
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Senior Lecturer in History and International Relations, Curtin University
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Senior Lecturer, School of Social Sciences, UNSW Sydney
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Honorary Senior Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor in Islamic Studies, Director of The Centre for Islamic Studies and Civilisation and Executive Member of Public and Contextual Theology, Charles Sturt University
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Professor of International Relations, Lancaster University
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Professor in The Division of Global Affairs and The Department of Political Science, Rutgers University - Newark
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Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History, University of California, Los Angeles
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British Academy Research Fellow, University of Oxford
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Professor of International Security, University of Birmingham
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Chair in Global Islamic Politics, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University
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Reader in International Relations, Royal Holloway University of London
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Professor, Department of Government, University of Essex
