Globalization Day 2016
IPS Fellow Phyllis Bennis is featured in this annual conference of The Center for Civic Engagement at Hofstra University under this year’s theme, “Wars of the World.”
Author Event: Blue Future
IPS senior scholar Maude Barlow talks about and signs her new book on “Protecting Water and People and the Planet Forever.”
Will Pakistan Counter India’s “Water Bomb” With a Nuclear Bomb?
Indian dams threaten Pakistani water sources.
Interview with Christian Parenti
The author of Tropic of Chaos talks about India, China, and the mentality of the armed lifeboat.
Global Warming, Global Violence
Christian Parenti’s new book looks at the intersection of climate change and conflict.
A Haggadah for AIPAC
Instead of children, imagine if AIPAC members asked the Haggadah questions.
Palestine: the Logical Locus of Les Onzards
Palestine, centrally significant to the Arab world, stands every chance of being the locus of the democracy movement.
Stormy War Clouds: A Briefing on The Crisis in Ivory Coast (Cote-d’Ivoire)
Experts describe Ivory Coast (Cote d’Ivoire) as Africa’s biggest news story of 2010. Its disputed November 28 run-off and its tense aftermath constitute a secondary crisis. This situation was indeed born out of unresolved primary Ivorian dilemmas and crises: the epicenter of FranceAfrique or French neocolonialism across Africa. Global capital, neoliberalism and foreign economic domination are the price of “stable” dictatorship.
Cynical Maneuvering by Democratic Leaders Quashes Recognition of a Palestinian State
Democrats push through yet another anti-Palestinian resolution.
Fireground Rules, Part 2: A Scheme is Not a Vision
Wildfires, like conflicts between states, are fast, dynamic and fierce.
Which Knot Needs to Be Unraveled First — Israel-Palestine or Iran’s Nuclear Program?
Does President Obama have enough political capital to lead the Middle-East peace process?
The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water
The three water crises dwindling freshwater supplies, inequitable access to water and the corporate control of water pose the greatest threat of our time to the planet and to our survival.
Asian Armageddon?
All this talk of peace runs straight up against the major increases in military spending and the acquisition of ever more sophisticated weaponry.
Albert Heta
Artist and Director of the Center for Contemporary Art in Pristina Albert Heta debates the political and social consequences of art in times of conflict.
A Return to Diversity in the Balkans?
The failure of multi-party talks over Kosovo’s independence has many bracing for further conflict in southeastern Europe. But the region is finding ways to negotiate conflict without violence.