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![]() Paul GillespieThe Irish Times |
Three international summits in a row illustrate the changing patterns of world power and the forces driving them. Demands for more equality from a...
Oceans make up 70 per cent of the Earth’s surface. They have absorbed 90 per cent of the global warming imbalance and 25 per cent of the responsible...
Former senior United States officials have reportedly been talking to Russian government ministers about creating a negotiating framework for talks on...
A highlight of the recent Government-organised Consultative Forum on International Security Policy was a statement by the Swiss academic Professor...
“The first true subversion since Marx.” So the late Michael Viney described the new ecological thinking in his first Another Life column from...
Where now for Irish neutrality? Must it gradually disappear into European Union security structures dominated increasingly by the United States and...
The fragmenting world order was visible at the Group of Seven (G7) summit of rich democracies in Hiroshima last weekend. It was attended by leaders...
Framing perspectives matter greatly in contextualising political identities and positioning political actors. Ireland’s 50 years in the EU and its...
In times of rapid change we struggle to find a vocabulary and ideas to express it. These often take an ideological form that distorts and obscures...
“Just as printing made everyone a potential reader, today, digitalisation is making everyone into a potential author. But how long did it take until...