How the legacy of an obscure Italian Marxist came to motivate a Norwegian terrorist – and a Dutch politician.

January 1996, Freetown, Sierra Leone – I was at the American embassy in Freetown, Sierra Leone and had a cup of tea with the humanitarian affairs attaché. Suddenly, the alarm went off and a metallic voice announced: ‘The embassy is temporarily clo…

Salwa Ismail is professor of politics at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. At the TNI Fellows Meeting in Amsterdam (3-4 June), she discussed the differences between the revolutions in Egypt and Syria….

Andy Storey, lecturer at University College Dublin and chairperson of Action from Ireland, questions the validity of the euro. He argues that the monetary union was designed to foreclose democracy….

The dust has settled. Shaheer George is finally able to look back at the recent events in Egypt and does so at the TNI Fellows Meeting in Amsterdam (3-4 June 2011). George is an Egyptian youth activist, active in pro-democracy groups including the…

Phyllis Bennis is the director of the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) in Washington, and a Fellow at the Transnational Institute (TNI) in Amsterdam. At the 2011 TNI Fellows Meeting (3-4 June) she talked about…

In a sequence of three blog posts Alex Calvo examines the wider geopolitical issues that are likely to be affected by the nuclear incident in Fukushima Daiichi, Japan.In previous postings, Prof Calvo discussed the Nuclear Renaissance and the Compe…

In a sequel of three blog post Alex Calvo examines the wider geopolitical issues that are likely to be affected by the nuclear incident in Fukushima Daiichi, Japan.   In a previous posting, Mr Calvo discussed the Nuclear Renaissance. In th…

Reporting on the trouble at Fukushima Daiichi’s nuclear facilities initially focused on the possibility of a meltdown, and has later concentrated on the repair works being conducted and the small radioactivity leaks which have taken place.It is to…

Each year, the Spring Summit of the EU is followed by the Brussels Forum of the German Marshall Fund. This is the third year that I have been invited to this meeting of politicians, public opinion leaders, diplomats and young people from the US an…