Latest Int. Relations

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  Turse: America’s Winless Wars

  Winning: it’s written into the DNA of the U.S.A. After all, what’s more American than football legend Vince Lombardi’s famous (if purloined) maxim: “Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing”?
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  Prashad: The Perils of Humanitarian Wars

  The limits of the ‘responsibility to protect’ doctrine
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  Savio: European Security with or Without Russia? Consequences of the Chinese-Russian Alliance on the Relationship Between USA and EU

  The joint military manoeuvres between the Russian and Chinese navies, armies, and air forces has kicked off. It’s a clear message for Washington
• Kinzer: Saudi Arabia Bill Opens US to Avalanche of Lawsuits

  No one could sue the United States for damages, he reasoned, because “the United States does not engage in international terrorist activity.” He may honestly believe that, but judges in other countries might disagree
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  Feffer: NATO’s Expiration Date

  Problems with Turkey, Eastern Europe, and Donald Trump could tear the rickety alliance apart at the seams
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  Klare: Sleepwalking into a big war

  The major powers are planning for war and claim that’s the best way to defend against war. Will this mutual hawkishness lead to armed conflict?
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  Gordon: Using human shields as a pretext to kill civilians

  By claiming that the other side is using human shields, the attacker provides itself with a pre-emptive legal defence
• Scrivener: Why we need a world without borders

  The right to live where you want should be as fundamental as the right to vote
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  Falk: Failures of Militarism in Countering Mega-Terrorism

  [Prefatory Note: I am posting on my blog a short...
• Ioakimoglou: Greece Was the Prologue

  Austerity experiments in Greece set the stage for a radical restructuring of Europe by elites
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  Falk: Beyond Jewish Identity: Exceptionalism Revisited

  Living part of each year in Turkey for more than twenty years has led my to think about the secular/religious divide that is very deep in Turkish society, and produces cleavages of understanding and polarizing enmities
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  Rasmus: Who Profited From the $440 Billion Greek Bailout? Not Greeks

  Hundreds of billions of dollars in loans haven't helped the Greek economy or its people
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  Fisk: The Shias are winning in the Middle East – and it’s all thanks to Russia

  Just as Erdogan has become pals with Putin, the Turkish and Iranian foreign ministers have been embracing in Ankara with many a promise that their own talks will produce new alliances
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  Chomsky: Global Struggles for Dominance

  Interview on ISIS, NATO and Russia
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  Hallinan: Dangerous Seas: China & The U.S.

  Simple demographics are shifting the balance of economic and political power from Europe and the U.S. to Asia
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  Bennis: Team Refugee and the Normalization of Mass Displacement

  As refugees take the Olympic stage, the wars that sent them running for their lives continue apace
• Prentoulis: Lexit delusionaries

  The Brexit campaign brought together a number of narratives, none of which signals any progress towards social justice and democracy
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  Amin: Brexit and the EU Implosion: National Sovereignty — For What Purpose?

  The defense of national sovereignty, like its critique, leads to...
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  Swanson: But, Mr. Putin, You Just Don’t Understand

  The purpose of war is indeed war itself. The justifications are always pretexts
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  Bello: Superpower Conflicts Are Driving Tensions in the South China Sea

  The Philippines won a huge legal victory against China on a long-running territorial dispute. But Manila's alliance with Washington may make it all for nothing