THE United States, heavily engaged in Afghanistan and Iraq in  its global war on terror, is now fighting on a third front…

The American sponsored UN Security Council Resolution on Somalia in December 2006 prepared the grounds for an Ethiopia invasion of Somalia. This…

North Korea’s first nuclear test on 9 October was not the only recent shock in northeast Asia. The region had been just…

A group of rightwing ‘declin-ologists'(1), prompted by the avian flu scare, have diagnosed France as an organism in collapse and in urgent…

Democracy may have been promoted as the best of all political systems, but it has long been a rare form of actual…

NOTHING can justify the 7 July attacks in London, which killed 56 people along with their suicide bomber perpetrators. Murdering innocent civilians…

FRANCE, with its resounding and rebellious vote against Europe’s constitutional treaty, has again shown itself to be a political nation to its…

SUDDENLY international concern is focused on the Taiwan Strait, a scene of major tension since 14 March, when the Chinese parliament passed…

WAS Syria responsible for the assassination on 14 February of the former Lebanese prime minister, Rafik Hariri? A part of Lebanese public…

WHAT could be more symbolic of the disarray of the French press, as it faces an alarming fall in sales figures, than…