The struggles of post-colonial states are due to enduring colonial influence. This article explores how colonialism in Africa was conducted, and how methods of colonial historiography contributed to a romanticising of its impact.
COVID was an unprecedented event from a human rights law perspective: never before had the international framework been challenged by a truly global emergency.
This is the first section of a report of the Italian Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry into Operation Gladio, a clandestine military and intelligence network operating on European soil for forty years after WWII.
The recent NATO summit in Madrid heralds a historic change in European security structures. The 2022 Strategic Concept that resulted from the meeting will guide NATO policy for the next decade, and you should know the details.
Much has been written about Rwandan genocide. Less has been revealed about how powerful states and international institutions chose to ignore the bloodshed as it developed. This is how it happened.
Historical fact is more unsettling than fiction. The first in a series, this article is an introduction to Gladio, a clandestine operation that changed Italian - and world - politics.
India was born in exceptional circumstances, and with 2022 marking 75 years of independence it is an apt time to see how its foreign policy has evolved since 1947.
Originally published just weeks before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, this article predicted that a lack of engagement with the Russian perspective on NATO expansion would lead to an escalation of tensions.
The ‘state of exception’ is critically important from a human rights perspective because the suspension of the legal order often paves the way for systematic human rights violations.
