With Saturday 14th January marking one year since the ousting of President Ben Ali in Tunisia, we should take a moment to reflect on what the "Arab Spring" has achieved in the past year. We have seen the ousting of Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi in Libya and ...
Renewed questions have rightly been raised about the presence of NATO troops in Afghanistan with fifteen British soldiers killed during the first ten days of this month. Many commentators have raised the issue of cost, saying that a war cannot be fought on the cheap. More fundamentally, however, is why our ...
This week sees the presence of President Obama in Europe for the fourth occasion since he was elected President, this time for the G8 summit in Italy. This illustrates the commitment of the Obama Administration to working with Europe on the major global challenges, not just economic but also strategic ...
