By Dr. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, M.A., D.Phil (Sussex)
“A very worthwhile read for policy-makers everywhere.” Rt. Hon. Michael Meacher MP – UK Minister of State for the Environment (1997-2003)
“Few thinkers weave as many threads into …
By Peter D. Schwartzman & David W. Schwartzman
Arguably no challenge is more serious for the world’s future than bringing about a rapid decarbonation of the energy infrastructure with the possibility of preventing the onset of catastrophic climate change. With a mathematical model we demonstrate that this transition is technically plausible using modest inputs of existing fossil fuel reserves in the creation of a global solar power infrastructure even with existing solar technologies such as wind turbines. In addition, this global power capacity can likewise provide energy consumption per person levels for all of humanity consistent with high human development requirements. Read the full story »
Recent publications have revived interest in Herman Daly’s proposal for a Steady-State Economy. This report by IPRD Research Associate, ecological historian Dr. Richard Smith, argues, that the idea of a steady-state capitalism is based on …
By M. Shahid Alam
Pakistan’s rulers and ruling elites may well be thinking that the wave of people’s indignation that started in Tunisia and is now working its way through Egypt, Jordan and Yemen will never …
The Crisis of Civilization is a documentary feature film investigating how global crises like ecological disaster, financial meltdown, dwindling oil reserves, terrorism and food shortages are converging symptoms of a single, failed global system.
Weaving together …
By Robin Yassin-Kassab
Written on the night of January 14th 2011
The dictator, thief and Western client Zein al-Abdine Ben Ali, beloved until a few hours ago in Paris and Washington, has been driven from Tunisia. His …
Launch of A User’s Guide to the Crisis of Civilization: And How to Save It – Published by Pluto Press / Macmillan (2010)
The first study of its kind, peer-reviewed by a multi-disciplinary panel of twelve …
By Robin Yassin-Kassab
M. Shahid Alam’s latest book “Israeli Exceptionalism: The Destabilising Logic of Zionism” is a fascinating historical analysis, densely detailed and referenced, of the nature and trajectory of Jewish nationalism. It is bracingly honest, …
With the kind sponsorship of the Commonwealth Journalists Association, the IPRD cordially invites you to an exclusive book launch for A User’s Guide to the Crisis of Civilization: And How to Save It …
The military adventure that George W. Bush embarked on within months of his inauguration in 2001 was to eclipse everything else in his presidency. His name will forever be synonymous with the “war on terror.” …
Various abridged versions of this piece have been published in Le Monde diplomatique, Daily News Egypt and Pakistan Observer.
Unprecedented heatwave in Russia, leading to uncontrollable wildfires. Floods in Pakistan the like of which have not …
The New Left Project (NLP) publishes the transcript of a lengthy interview with IPRD Executive Director, Dr. Nafeez Ahmed, by NLP’s Samia Aziz – on the nature, causes and future of Islamophobia in the UK …
By Dr. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, published by OpenDemocracy.net
Pakistan is in the eye of many storms. It lies at the heart of the United States’s almost decade-long “war on terror”, with an ever-ambiguous position (in Washington’s …
By Dr. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, published by Ceasefire Magazine
Only 500 generations ago, hunter-gatherers began cultivating crops and forming their tiny communities into social hierarchies. Around 15 to 20 generations ago, industrial capitalism erupted on …
Dr. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed on The Real Deal with George Galloway talking about his new book A User’s Guide to the Crisis of Civilization: And How to Save it. Dr. Ahmed discusses global crisis …
1 billion children (every second child) live in absolute poverty — UNICEF, The State of the World’s Children, 2005
10.6 million children died last year due to extreme poverty before they reached the age of 5 (equivalent …
Young Fabian New Media Officer, Alex Baker, caught up with Dr Ahmed to discuss his forthcoming book “A User’s guide to crisis of civilization: and how to save it”, in which Dr Ahmed argues that existing …
Crisis is a word we’ve been hearing a lot over the last couple of weeks and months. In recent days it has been applied to the floods in Pakistan, mudslides in China, wild fires in …
New research published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that rice yields in many parts of Asia over the last 25 years have fallen already by about 10-20 per cent due …
This is my letter on latest developments in Pakistan/Afghanistan published in today’s Evening Standard:
The fuss over David Cameron’s comments on Pakistan exporting terror and his subsequent attempts to repair bridges has been hugely overblown. Given …
It’s important to explain that in foreign policy we are not looking for differences. I don’t see it as part of that style of parties. We don’t as in many areas of domestic policy say that we’ve got to differentiate with the government necessarily, foreign policy gains strength from continuity between parties. There are differences of speed and emphasis than of direction
— William Hague, Conservative Friends of Israel Annual Business Lunch, June 2008
Submission to the Parliamentary Committee on Communities and Local Government
The Government’s understanding of extremism inadequately analyses the core social factors behind violent radicalization, seeing these …
By Toufic Machnouk
Structural violence is the effect of a systemic imbalance in society that prefers the interests of some over others. Its dynamics are less visible than that of direct violence, where the causes are …
By Dr. M. Shaheed Alam
This book discerns in the history of Zionism the plot of a Shakespearean tragedy.
A small band of European Zionists enters the world stage in late 19th century, determined to …
The Charter of the United Nations was signed on 26 June 1945, in San Francisco, at the conclusion of the United Nations Conference on International Organization, and came into force on 24 October …
Toufic Machnouk with Derrick Conway MP, Dr Michael Kerr, Andy Love MP on Epilogue to review The 33- Day War written by Gilbert Achcar and Michel Warschawski
The Cutting Edge by Nafeez Ahmed
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