Hans Kochler: The Voting Procedure in the UN Security Council

In the essay, The Voting Procedure in the United Nations Security Council, Kockler writes that:
The four sponsoring governments at the San Francisco Conference … propagated the idea of creating a new world order based on freedom and equal rights for men and women of all nations (Preamble of the UN Charter). However, in the same [...]

Business and Private Interest in Universities: BP and Berkeley

Below is an excerpt from an article by Iain A. Boal, written in Mute:
In June 2006 British Petroleum announced a plan to spend half a billion dollars to fund research into genetically modified elephant grass and other transgenic plants now being considered as candidates for rotting and fermenting into alcohol for non-fossil car fuel. Like [...]

The Power of the State in a Global Economy

Below is an excerpt from an article written by Daniel W. Drezner, posted at the Chronicle Review:
When I began working on my latest book, I also began regularly reading a news source greatly undervalued in international relations: The Onion. The timing was serendipitous because I soon stumbled across a mock headline that crystallized one of [...]

News in Brief: 5 June 2007

A brief list of news for the day:
US commanders say push in Baghdad is short of goal. “Three months after the start of the Baghdad security plan that has added thousands of American and Iraqi troops to the capital, they control fewer than one-third of the city’s neighborhoods, far short of the initial goal for [...]

The Militant French Banlieues

Below is an excerpt from Mute, written by Emilio Quadrelli:
French cities burst back into flames after President Sarkozy’s election on a ‘clean the scum off the streets with a high-pressure hose’ ticket. It won’t be the last time, as long as the factors necessitating the mass revolt of November 2005 remain in place, in France [...]