Over the past decade Brazil has become a major player on the world stage. Under President Lula, the country has become an economic powerhouse, whilst its fast-growing military and uranium enrichment...

On Sunday Turkey will go to the polls to vote in a referendum. A “yes” vote will clip the power of the military, give more legal rights to individuals and, most importantly, reform the high...

We live in exciting times. I am not talking about the advances of medicine, science and engineering. Nor the growth of the internet, the mobile phone or the fact that Africa is the world’s fastest...

It looks as though the new government is belatedly prepared to grasp the nettle of Labour’s alleged acceptance of torture. The promised commission will investigate what exactly was tolerated under...

Hamas is causing unforeseen problems Too many Israelis don’t want a settlement with the Palestinians. Ten years ago, when prime minister Ehud Barak negotiated face to face with Yasser Arafat...

The stability of Africa’s most populous state continues to defy the doomsayers. When the democratically elected president Olusegun Obasanjo ended his second term of office in 2007, a quiet,...

The passage of the health reform bill has reversed perceptions of President Barack Obama’s weakness. He is now master of his own house and can perhaps out-achieve Lyndon Johnson’s and even...

The Israeli government’s slap in the face of visiting US Vice-President Joseph Biden—announcing 1,600 new homes in the contested territory of East Jerusalem during his stay—has heightened the...

As the possibility of a UN-backed plan aimed at limiting Iran’s ability to make nuclear weapons has been given a glimmer of hope—in not being rejected outright by the Iranian government—it is...

It seems fashionable to argue that the wheels are coming off Barack Obama's foreign policy. It's a position which the distinguished American scholar Philip Bobbitt stakes out in the most recent...