Western democracies’ claims to the moral high ground in respect to the brutality of war are uncalled for. There is no such thing as sophisticated violence.
There are important ethical, political and legal concerns with military contracting. The most serious of these is the fear that it will lead to a democratic deficit.
The current pandemic exhibits the strong dependency from transnational companies in the food, and medicine supply.
The break down in multilateralism forces us to think more expansively about how protection and prevention initiatives can be delivered and supported.
Some of the countries that were labeled by Donald Trump as ‘shitholes’ outperformed Global North states and despite their successes have been sidelined by the media.
The public does not seem inherently hostile to assistance to climate refugees or US involvement to address their plight.
COVID-19 has exposed the weaknesses of both the EU and the eurozone and brought into question the fiscal and political survival of the bloc.
This chapter describes the author’s travel, stories and experiences travelling to the Russian Far East in the 1990s following the collapse of the Soviet Union at the start of the decade.
America will have great difficulty being the hospital and the gun shop for the global South. Perhaps it is time for it to re-examine its approach and re-order its priorities.
Without the possibility to independently think and freely express, that allows us to question the reality around us, there are no ideas and there is no creativity.
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