One year on from the Iraq war, an experienced researcher of military conflict and peacemaking asks: was there an alternative, what can be done now, and what are the lessons
Modern Iraq is still just barely discernable as ancient Mesopotamia. You can see the tablets on which Hammurabi inscribed the first code of laws nearly 4000 years ago, you can
The Bush administration has received much criticism for its preparations for war in Iraq: but few, if any, coherent alternatives have been put forward. Criticism is unconvincing when it fails
Scilla Elworthy
In October 2002 I wrote to my old friend Margarita Papandreou, with whom I took delegations of women leaders to NATO headquarters in Brussels in the 1980s, to
What happens if you introduce the idea of cost control into the handling of terror? The beginnings of an audit.
The cost effectiveness of conflict resolution measures is in little
The purpose of terrorism is to frighten you.
11-Oct-01
Tim Garden writes:
In most counter-terrorist operations, the military are always subservient to the forces of law and order and the
Missile defence
The US feels threatened by rogue states those usually cited are North Korea, Iran, Iraq and Libya. The list of threats, Im told by official sources, is