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It gives us great pleasure to announce that the IPRD is an exciting transition phase. We have a spanking new team who are currently working hard behind the scenes to revamp the website in …
By Dr. M. Shahid Alam, 17 Mar 2000
This text presents an analysis of the evolution of global disparities. It inserts two additional asymmetries into the global economy; those created by “unequal races” and unequal states. …
S. Mansoob Murshed, United Nations University, World Institute for Development Economics Research
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By Dr John McMurtry, CCPA Monitor, August 1996
When we think of a society’s “defense system,” we think of its armed forces. We have long been conditioned to do this. The military-industrial …
By Dr. Johan Galtung, 16 April 1996
Johan Galtung, one of the founders of modern peace studies, provides a wide-ranging panorama of the ideas, theories and assumptions on which the study of peace is based.
The book …
By William M. H. Kötke
The crisis of the planet Earth is so profound that all of our lives will be caught up in it. Our lives will change because of it. Our lives …
By Dr. M. Shahid Alam, 12 June 1989
It has become fashionable in some circles after September 11 to excoriate Islam as the source of the problems facing the Islamic world. The air is …
The US was aiming to achieve a “new post-Iraq war security structure that can secure the flow of energy exports to the global economy”. The arms sales would “reinforce the level of regional deterrence and help reduce the size of forces the US must deploy in the region”; Anthony Cordesman, from the Centre for Strategic & International Studies in Washington
— Gulf states in $123bn US arms spree, Financial Times, 20 September 2010
By Aisha Dennis and Dr. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed
According to British government officials, the Iraqi government of Saddam Hussein systematically obstructed and undermined the weapons inspections programmes conducted by the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspections …
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 …
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 …
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 …
The Cutting Edge by Nafeez Ahmed
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