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I do not consider myself to be an expert on development assistance, but perhaps I am something of an expert on international security.The current Dutch government, consisting as it does of a centre-right coalition supported by Geert Wilders’ anti-…

‘Talking to the enemy is not, in my view, appeasement.’ These words were uttered by James Baker, secretary of state in the final year of George Bush senior’s administration, on 6 October 2006. It was a courageous statement, because it ran directly…

The more nuclear reactors there are, the higher the risk. This is the logical conclusion made by Yukiya Amano, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna, Austria. ‘As more countries build more nuclear reactors, th…

The usually serene world of peace researchers is currently being rocked by a veritable war about who can count the best, and who is counting what. The row is not about something trivial, but about war victims.

Described as a ‘pocket-sized medium power’, the Netherlands has always struggled with its size. It has never felt satisfied, like a teenager in front of a mirror. Within NATO, the Netherlands has for years wanted to be the biggest of the small. Wh…

‘No system of government can or should be imposed upon one nation by any other’. — US President Barack Obama, from his address to the Muslim world, Cairo, Egypt, 4 June 2009.

In 2008, the South Korean electronics company Daewoo agreed to lease 1.3 million hectares of land in Madagascar. Daewoo pays no rent for the land and intends to use it for producing maize and palm oil – not to satisfy the hunger and needs of the l…

Three months ago, the term ‘system crisis’ was only heard in think tanks and sleepy research institutes. Who else worried about it? Now it is competing with ‘meltdown’ to become the most-used term in newspapers and on the television and radio.

Thomas P.M. Barnett has given well over a thousand presentations worldwide. Barrett is a well known defence expert whose career trajectory has run from Harvard University to the US Naval War College, and from being just another Soviet Union specia…