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Category Archives: Africa

Published on
22 July 2017

The March of the Malthusians

Posted in Abortion, Africa, British Politics, Marriage & Family

Last week we saw the return of the London Family Planning Summit, with senior government officials, NGO representatives and business leaders committing billions in additional funding with a view to getting 120 million more women and girls using ‘modern’ methods of family planning by 2020. The British Government alone pledged to increase its International Development department’s […]

Published on
15 September 2011

Afghanistan, Zimbabwe and the Just War principle

Posted in Africa, Freedom, Human Rights, Islam, Military Ethics, United States of America, World Affairs

The world has just marked with due solemnity and regret the tenth anniversary of terrible terrorist attacks upon the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Much has been written in recent days analysing the legacy of the events to date. The most notable 9/11 outcome has perhaps been armed intervention in Afghanistan by NATO and […]

Published on
16 May 2011

The Secret Challenge of Africa

Posted in Africa

From a guest blogger in Kenya: After structural adjustments and economic liberalisation have proved inadequate to address the continent’s woes, the focus of the international donor community in Africa has been trained on the need to combat corruption. The fight against corruption has been precisely that—a fight against—but the central problem of the continent is […]

Published on
13 April 2011

Egypt, Tunisia, and the Failure of Neoclassical Economic Theory

Posted in Africa, Middle East, Political Economy, Recommended Links

‘The regime changes in Egypt and Tunisia have been hailed as victories for democracy, as proof of the liberalizing power of social networking media, as testimony to the power of nonviolent political action. All of that they may indeed be; but the events in Egypt and Tunisia also illustrate a major defect in our economic […]

Published on
4 March 2011

Should Britain Invade Libya?

Posted in Africa, Human Rights, Legal Affairs, Middle East, Military Ethics, Moral Philosophy, Philosophy, World Affairs

The title I have chosen is somewhat disingenuous. I do not support armed intervention in Libya, and so my intention in blogging on this subject is not to voice support for military action. Neither, however, do I oppose it. But the suggestion that the West might use force in the Arab world has once again […]

Published on
3 March 2011

What Libyan and Other Jasmine Revolutionaries Owe Burma

Posted in Africa, Burma, Middle East

Part one of a series written by a guest blogger: ‘Burma leads the world!’ – not a common headline. And yet, this should be the sub-heading behind every newspaper cover story of the Middle East uprisings taking place right now. Why? The (non-violent) revolution handbook used in each of these settings was originally written to […]