Neoconservatism: A good idea that won't go away
I suspect that no presidential candidate in 2016 will say "I am a neoconservative". But a look at the GOP line-up suggests the easiest one-word explanation of their foreign policy planks will be that very word
- 11 June 2013
Can we remodel the Middle East?
Can the West really remodel the Middle East?
- 6 June 2013
Mutilated justice is better than no justice at all
The international community has a duty to act when human beings are suffering, no matter how anti-interventionists try to obfuscate the matter
- 29 March 2013
You're welcome, Mali
Critics of the intervention in Mali have argued that the French and the British should stop the 'colonialist' incursion. Mali thinks otherwise
- 24 January 2013
Owen Jones’s anti-colonialism reflects a dead ideology
Owen Jones's Independent article today confirms that the old Left wing notion of anti-interventionism still rules the roost in some circles. That ideology is dead, explains Raheem Kassam
- 14 January 2013
History itself demands action: Part 2
Are we really going to allow innocent people to be killed in Syria because the next government could be far from perfect?
- 12 March 2012
Wielding Britannia’s dented shield
The false dichotomy between “advancing British interests” and “advancing human rights” was in evidence again at the Labour Party Conference last night. It’s time to craft a British foreign policy in the service of both.
- 27 September 2011
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