The Islamist Moment in the Middle East: Domestic and Geostrategic Implications|
Speaker: Professor Fawaz Gerges
Date: Monday 13 February 2012, 6.30-8pm

 

Maonomics: why Chinese Communists make better capitalists than we do|
Speaker: Loretta Napoleoni
Date: Wednesday 15 February 2012, 6.30-8pm

 

Dispatches from the Dark Side: on torture and the death of justice|
Speaker: Gareth Peirce
Date: Thursday 16 February 2012, 6.30-8pm

 

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Every nation should have a say in governing space|
Oversight of the space around the Earth should be a matter for all countries and not just space-faring nations argues a new study of global common resources.

 

Ties that bind|
A new report by Kristian Coates Ulrichsen examines the challenges and connections between Basra, southern Iraq and the Gulf.

 

IMF does react to workers’ concerns|

Workers in debt-ridden countries do get sympathetic treatment from the International Monetary Fund, especially if they are organised, a new study has found.