As Gaza lies in ruins, with over 70,000 Palestinians killed by relentless Western-backed Israeli warfare, since October 2023, a grotesque proposal has surfaced from the corridors of imperial Washington and colonial Whitehall. Backed by the Trump administration, the...
The specter of a formal American Empire of Might Makes Right—an idea many mistakenly believed long dead—has reemerged with a vengeance after Trump’s return to the White House in January 2025. The reckless and dangerous force driving US power today is its revival of...
America in Crisis: Will there be a peaceful transfer of power? The United States enters 2024 with a deep sense of foreboding. As Republican primaries loom to find their nominee for the November presidential election, US politics hits new lows. Donald Trump’s CV plumbs...
Mobilising Knowledge for Power, to Obscure Where it Lies and How it Works – It’s What American Universities, Foundations and the State, Do Emily Hauptmann, Foundations and American Political Science: The transformation of a discipline, 1945-1970 (University press of...
“Who Won the Iraq War? Twenty Years On, Iran, China and Russia boosted while US loses ground in the region” Introduction The twentieth anniversary of American-led aggression in Iraq generated a Great Debate around what was achieved, squandered, and why the US...
Poly Crisis or Organic Crisis? The Crisis of the United States and the US-Led World Order (Lightly edited transcript of an Inaugural Lecture by Professor Inderjeet Parmar, City, University of London, to the students and faculty of the Department of International...
