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In the conservative Muslim culture of Mali, women fulfill their traditional gender roles of raising children, tending the [...]
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It can be difficult to gauge the balance between making university places accessible but also maintaining their value – here’s how Singapore does it University degrees are a strange commodity. They [...]
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This recent article from Salon describes the evolution of a zero-sum game scenario between the Indigenous Amazonian Shuar tribe and international mining companies backed by the Ecuadorian [...]
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A citizen and his State. This relationship is at the forefront of discussion as the welfare state tests its limits and migration patterns become increasingly metropolitan. Thanks in particular to [...]
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The Nile: There Won’t Be Enough for Everybody Is the post-revolution change in Egyptian leadership bringing about a shift in foreign policy towards the nations of the Nile Basin? The Nile River [...]
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In the middle of March in Brussels about 40 representatives of civil society from European Union candidate countries (South-East Europe, Turkey and Iceland) attended the European Commission study tour “Direct [...]
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The crisis in Europe is starting to cause the demolition of the so-called "Welfare State" in many countries while others are struggling to hold it together. At the same time, [...]
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The Maldives’ Former President is Not About to Go Quietly In the European mind, the Maldives is a tranquil island paradise of exotic settlements and sun-kissed beaches. In February 2012, the [...]
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I made a decision this morning, and that is to be very rich. Mind you, I have always wanted to be rich, but this morning I decided on a new [...]
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A road expansion campaign in Kathmandu has been initiated by Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai. This campaign has been ongoing since September 2011.The project has received mixed feedback. Praised for adding significant [...]
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Governance isn't the only thing that is being taken into the hands of civil society. In Australia, the entire premise of the market system is also being reworked. [...]
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The United States has a cultural problem. Europe has it too. It is the welfare state—the overextended, debt-funded morass of entitlements. “But why,” some will ask, “is it a cultural [...]
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From Syria to Tunisia to Scotland, people seem to be taking political processes into their own hands. Are we shifting from a heavy reliance on those who once [...]
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Sixty nine years since independence and India is still battling a parasite called corruption. When the people of India voted for democracy, little did they know [...]
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The time for big revolutions is gone. This doesn’t mean we do not change -- on the contrary, we're changing now more than ever. But change is already a conservative aspect [...]
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“There are men who fight one day and they are good, men who fight one year and they are better, men who fight many years and they are [...]
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"Yugonostalgia." It's an expression that suggests many things at once. Generally, it refers to a feeling of longing for “the good old days” felt by citizens of those countries which [...]
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It was pretty delightful, the time we spent together was indescribable. Mr Welfare had really committed, promised me that he was there to support me describing himself as [...]
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Sometimes the relationship between the state and its citizens can be very complicated. But it's even more so when it's not clear who should be a [...]
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The beauty of childhood is its lack of expectations Photo credit: Powerhouse Museum Collection [...]
