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Asia
Eighty years after independence, India faces a crisis of identity…
Youth unemployment, economic inequality, religious nationalism and growing tensions between India’s states are placing mounting pressure on its democratic institutions and federal system. Rakesh Ahuja Pearls and Irritations The Indus…
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Features
When Yesterday’s Enemies Become Today’s Friends
Politics has always produced unlikely friendships. Artemis Kechagioglou Countries change direction. Parties reinvent themselves. Former adversaries discover common interests. New fears replace old ones, and yesterday’s political boundaries gradually become…
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Asia
AUKUS makes a US-China war more likely
By giving the United States greater military access to Australia, AUKUS has changed the strategic geography of any future conflict with China – and may have increased both the likelihood…
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Civil Liberties
Venezuela: Reform Needed for Rights Progress
Human Rights Watch Conducts First Official Visit in 18 years (Washington, DC) – Venezuela needs to take urgent measures and carry out institutional reforms to protect people’s basic rights, Human Rights…
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Asia
Peace Has to Be Felt
The hardest part of a peace process may begin after the agreement is signed. Eva Alexander A peace agreement can change history. It cannot, by itself, change everyday life. For…
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Aggression
White Phosphorus: Recent Use, Inhumane Effects Require New Law
UN General Assembly Should Respond to Global Concerns Recent use of white phosphorus munitions by Israeli forces in Lebanon underscores the need for new international law to regulate these devastating…
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Asia
The Power to Choose
For much of the period after the Cold War, American power appeared to rest on an extraordinary assumption: Jill Dean Singer That the United States could respond to almost every…
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Australasia
Beyond the tick-box: why we need ethical capability, not just…
Let’s begin with a deceptively simple question that at Cranlana, we’re frequently asked by corporate, civic, and institutional leaders: Can ethics actually be taught? The skepticism behind the question is…
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Arts & Culture
What are we missing about Helen of Troy?
Debate over who can play Helen of Troy misses something more interesting: in Homer, she emerges as a rare figure capable of questioning fate, power and her own responsibility. Adrian…
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Analysis
A World of Choices, Not Camps
The emerging international order may be defined less by who leads it than by how many countries refuse to be led. Fiona Ko Ko For much of the period after…
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Asia
Memory Is Not the Past
History becomes dangerous in two very different ways. Artemis Kechagioglou It becomes dangerous when it is used to cultivate hatred. But it can also become dangerous when it is deliberately…
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Aggression
How Drones are Changing Colombia’s Conflict
In this video, Crisis Group expert Bram Ebus explains how drones are reshaping Colombia’s armed conflicts, the human cost of their use and what the government can do to respond.…
