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| Wednesday 7 September 2011 |
Where did all the goodies and baddies go?
Hollywood’s post-9/11 films have ditched old-style patriotic chest-beating in favour of moral self-flagellation.
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| Thursday 28 October 2010 |
An indictment of the
anti-war movement
Demands for the prosecution of Tony Blair only legitimise the use of international courts against weak states.
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| Friday 5 March 2010 |
Darfur: every celeb’s favourite African war
A new book reveals how celebrities’ and human rights activists’ simple-minded moral posturing on Darfur made the conflict even worse.
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| Friday 26 February 2010 |
Why Darfur is everyone’s favourite African war
Rob Crilly’s new book is a fine work of reportage, challenging the myths and misunderstandings that surround Darfur and exposing how celebrity campaigners intensified the conflict.
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| Monday 21 December 2009 |
The search for green meaning
For our confused and cut-off leaders, Copenhagen offered a chance to magic up some historic momentum.
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| Friday 25 September 2009 |
Demystifying the ‘global ideology’
David Chandler’s new book Hollow Hegemony draws on the work of Marx and Engels to explain how the political class’s embrace of ethics and ‘global politics’ springs from their political weakness and isolation.
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| Friday 10 July 2009 |
Al-Qaeda: it’s not big and it’s not clever
What do suicide bombers and environmentalists have in common? Faisal Devji explains in his daring new book on contemporary terrorism.
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| Friday 26 June 2009 |
Al-Qaeda: what’s the big idea?
Faisal Devji’s new book draws some daring parallels between the outlook of militant suicide bombers and that of Western humanitarians – but it ultimately projects the author’s own search for political meaning on to the al-Qaeda network.
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| Wednesday 13 May 2009 |
The Hague: a tool of ‘legal vengeance’
ESSAY: The ICTY’s Kafkaesque decision to bump up a prisoners’ sentence by 12 years shows that it is nothing like a proper court of law.
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| Monday 30 March 2009 |
The tyranny of ‘international justice’
Philip Hammond reports from a conference that cross-examined the prosecution of presidents by international tribunals.
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| Tuesday 24 March 2009 |
The rise of the laptop bombardier
Journalists and editors did more than simply cheer NATO’s bombing of Belgrade: they wrote the script for it.
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| Thursday 12 March 2009 |
Indicting Bashir won’t bring peace or justice
Predictably, the ICC’s arrest warrant for Sudan’s president has created a backlash against aid workers and crippled hopes of an end to war.
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| Monday 29 December 2008 |
Why human rights are wrong
As the Universal Declaration of Human Rights turns 60, many seem unsure whether to criticise Western governments for breaching it or to urge them to enforce it. The end result is that our understanding of rights has become degraded.
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| Friday 21 November 2008 |
The thin blue line between ‘humanitarianism’ and war
Conor Foley’s account of how human rights violations became a justification for launching wars reminds us of the need for a political critique of interventionism. Unfortunately, this isn’t it.
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| Friday 7 November 2008 |
Darfur: the dangers of celebrity imperialism
Sending Blackwater to Sudan? The eccentric war-hungry activists of the Save Darfur lobby have taken leave of their senses.
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| Friday 24 October 2008 |
Darfur: the dangers of celebrity imperialism
From having talks with Blackwater to trying to fly unmanned aerial vehicles over Darfur, the war-hungry celebrities and activists of the Save Darfur lobby have taken leave of their senses.
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| Thursday 28 August 2008 |
The politics of recognition
Attacks on Russia for recognising breakaway regions in Georgia are riddled with hypocrisy: Moscow is playing a game invented by the West.
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| Monday 12 May 2008 |
An iron fist in a velvet glove
Iron Man, the latest Marvel superhero story to get a big-screen outing, captures the crisis and contradictions in ‘humanitarian militarism’.
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| Friday 25 April 2008 |
How the ’68ers
became warmongers
From their days as denim-wearing radicals manning the barricades to politicians in positions of power, Bernard Kouchner and Joschka Fischer have been fighting fantasy battles against fantasy fascism.
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| Friday 28 March 2008 |
From Somalia to Iraq: the hack as collaborator
In this extract from his new book, Philip Hammond says the media-ignited fuss over Bush and Blair’s destruction in Iraq should not blind us to the fact that throughout the 1990s, and still today, journalists collaborated with Western warmongers.
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