By Dr. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed
“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 a tapestry as Nafeez Ahmed has …
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 methods of analysing various crises affecting the world currently are inadequate if we are to prevent a ‘crisis of civilization’.
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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 …
A new peer-reviewed study in the journal Science has concluded that world coal production will peak next year. The study finds that on a business-as-usual scenario of exploitation (i.e. without efforts to curb fossil …
Prospect Magazine has today published my analysis of the US-Pakistan terror nexus on its blog here:
Since the release of 90,000 pages of classified US military intelligence on operations in Afghanistan and Pakistan by WikiLeaks, the …
Five years on from the London tube bombings, we remain no closer to a full, complete and impartial understanding of the terrible events of that day. Today, the coalition government has demonstrated that it has …
It is no surprise that President Obama decided to sack General Stanley McChrystal after he and his aides were quoted criticising the president and other senior administration officials in Rolling Stone – of all places. …
Lots of my friends and colleagues are concerned, if not downright depressed, by the Conservative Party’s ascension to the seat of government. They’re also equally, if not more, shocked that Tories did so with the …
In the UK, headlines are dominated by one thing: the hung parliament, and which party, or coalition of parties, is going to take power. Perhaps the subject slips to issues of economic crisis, with mention …
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
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 …
So far, Blair’s testimony before the Chilcot Inquiry has been seen as a largely self-incriminating affair, illustrating the extent not only to which Blair was willing to lie, or deceive himself and others, to go …
Lecture on Muslim youth in the United Kingdom. Dr. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed Political Analyst on security, conflict and global crisis. Director of Institute for Policy Research & Development, London. Author …
Toufic Machnouk with Lord Norman Lamont & Ambassador Lincoln Bloomfield on Middle East Today talking about the new US Administration’s policy towards Iran.
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 …
No territorial acquisition resulting from the threat or use of force shall be recognized as legal. — Declaration on Principles of International Law concerning Friendly Relations and Co-operation among States, General Assembly Resolution 2625 (XXV), 24 …
1 billion children (every second child) live in absolute poverty — UNICEF, The State of the World’s Children, 2005
The richest 2% of adults in the world own more than half of global household wealth — UNU-WIDER study …
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 …
I know what America is, America is a thing you can move very easily, move it in the right direction. They won’t get in their way.
— Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, 2001
For the Arches Quarterly - The Crisis of (Post) Modernity: The De-Sacralisation of the Social, the Death of Democracy, and the Reclamation of Islamic Tradition
In early 2007, then British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, described the ‘War on Terror’ as …
By M. Shahid Alam, Professor of Economics, Northeastern University
At a time when Palestinian men, women and children, corralled in the ghetto of Gaza since 1948, are daily, hourly, relentlessly, being bombed from the air, …
By Ruth Blakeley, 3 April 2009
This book explores the complicity of democratic states from the global North in state terrorism in the global South. It evaluates the relationship between the use of state …
Press TV: “Post Election Iran 2009, Special coverage – Show 3, Part 2 of 3″ – Interview with Timothy Towell (President of The Foreign Policy Group), Franklin Lamb (international lawyer), Toufic Machnouk (Institute …
The Cutting Edge by Nafeez Ahmed
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