The annual St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) will be held under the theme Finding Resolve to Build the New Global Economy on 20–22 June 2013. It is expected that the event will bring together around 5000 attendees including leading economists, businessmen and politicians, and will provide the participants with […]

The court-martial of PFC Bradley Manning began on Monday the 3rd of June, three years after his initial arrest. Manning, who is responsible for one of the biggest leaks of classified documents in history has already pleaded guilty to 10 of 22 charges. Bradley Manning, Whistle-blowing hero or law-breaking traitor? […]

Last month, The New York Times ran an interview with disgraced and disgruntled congressman Anthony Weiner and his wife Huma Abedin, in which they discuss married life and other boring things, and, of course, the infamous photo of Weiner’s wiener. One breezy evening in May 2011, a picture of the […]

Another EU–Russia summit will be held in Yekaterinburg on 3–4 June 2013. It is expected that the agenda of the upcoming event will overlap with the main topics of Russian-European government consultations that took place in March. According to the media reports, the parties intend to discuss: trade and economic […]

What’s going on with our political parties? Our politicians haven’t been held in such contempt for a long time. And, really, who can blame the electorate? You’d have to go a long way back in time to find a similar period when most people who were old enough to vote could […]

Rational means exercising reason and sound judgment. In international relations theory the rational actor model is that when making a decision the rational decision maker takes into account the foreign policy goals of the nation and determines which one takes priority over others. Then the decision maker weighs up the […]

The United States use of drones began under George W. Bush era, but their use has dramatically increased under Barack Obama’s, as the new way to fight al-Qaeda and other terrorist organisations in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen and Somalia. Since 2004 there have been 283 drone strikes in the border region […]

In America, the biggest beast of capitalism, they call May 1st ‘Labor Day’. In South Africa, it’s ‘Workers Day’. The Germans call it ‘Arbeiterstag’. While here in Britain it’s known, blandly, as ‘May Day Bank Holiday’. It wasn’t that long ago that an earlier Tory government – it could have […]