All is Fair in War and Facebook
From the streets of New York to Egypt, Moscow to Tunisia, the rise of social movements in the past few years has illustrated the power of social media in political change. Although 2011 might seem like...
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Keep Walking
In a town such as St. Andrews, full of Americans, IR students and American IR students, conversations about post-9/11 US foreign policy are inevitable. The conclusions of such conversations often...
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Currency War?
Quantitative easing (QE), also referred to as monetary easing, is an unconventional monetary tactic used by a country’s central bank to boost money supply in hopes of stimulating economic activity;...
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Forgotten Errands: Let the Sky Fall and the Nukes Launch
In my last article, I referenced the increasingly cliché “asteroid headed towards Earth” scenario with relation to the global imperative to take immediate action in combating the devastating effects of...
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The Politics of International Criminal Law
“Today, we live in a world where a man has more chances to be judged if he kills only one person than if he kills 100,000.“ – Kofi Annan, 1998 The year 1998 was the year in which the Rome Statute, the...
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World Hunger: Questioning Cameron’s Pledge
During the London Olympics David Cameron proclaimed that negotiations on improving the Global Food Security System would enjoy top priority on the agenda of the G8 Summit in Northern Ireland this June....
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Scottish Independence: What Happens to Us Students?
Scottish independence was never something I thought much about, at least until I came to St Andrews. As a French expat, I never identified with this particular issue, and always viewed it as more of an...
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NATO in the 21st Century
NATO is in crisis today. In an interview with the St Andrews Foreign Affairs Review conducted at Sciences Po, Paris, on Aril 12, Olivier Kempf states his views on the role of NATO in the twenty-first...
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Why there Will Never Be a House Built by BRICS
At the end of March 2013, a strange gathering of world leaders met in Durban, South Africa. They included the leader of the world’s biggest democracy, the leader of the world’s biggest dictatorship and...
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Who is Responsible for this Mess? : Generation Parasite vs. Generation Apathy
It’s all too common for commentators to look at the world today with an overabundance of skepticism. With the global economy in upheaval, bloody revolts in fill-in-the-blank-region of the world, and an...
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Vegetarianism: Fashion Trend or Remedy for Global Problems?
In recent years, the number of people who have stopped consuming animal products in Europe and the US has been rapidly rising. The Vegetarian Association VEBU estimates that 4000 people become...
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Snitching for Her Majesty
It is known that every totalitarian regime will sooner or later become dependent on informants for its own survival. The USSR was a prime example of this, but other totalitarian states have developed...
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Kenneth Waltz: 1924-2013
Kenneth Waltz, one of the most prominent theorists of international relations of the post-war period, passed away earlier this week, aged 88. Waltz is known primarily for his contributions to the...
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White Widow, White Lies?
Samantha Lewthwaite has been a prominent feature of mainstream news since the attacks on the Westgate shopping centre in Nairobi this September. However, when her name is entered into a Google search,...
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A New Brand of Politics?
In an expletive-spattered, 4,500 word opus as guest editor for the New Statesman, and a clash with Jeremy Paxman on BBC’s Newsnight, British comedian Russell Brand declared the political system...
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Indebted by Prejudice: Bishop Botches it Over UK Islamic Bond
Dr Michael Nazir-Ali, the former Bishop of Rochester, is a man of strong opinion. There is nothing extraordinary about this. As a senior official within the Anglican Church he had a legitimate mandate...
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Warsaw Climate Change Talks: Is it Time to Move in a Different Direction?
The November 2013 climate change negotiations in Warsaw made headlines around the world when the Philippines linked Typhoon Haiyan to the failure of the international community to take effective action...
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Bitcoin by Bitcoin
You might never have heard of Bitcoin. But there’s a good chance that we might be using it for our online shopping soon—indeed, some people are already doing that. Its usage isn’t limited to the online...
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Jenny from the Communist Bloc
Jennifer Lopez famously sung that her ‘love don’t cost a thing’. However, a recent investigation by the Human Rights Foundation (HRF) revealed that Jennifer’s love can in fact be bought for the small...
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Nelson Mandela: 1918-2013
In 1994, I had a relative who worked in the television industry and he offered me a free press pass to a big event in Pretoria that weekend. Nelson Mandela was to be inaugurated as president. I took...
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