On the history of hegemony: an informed sense of how power has been understood can only cultivate a much stronger sense of how it operates today. Book review.

A ground-breaking new UN Nuclear Weapons Prohibition Treaty could be agreed tomorrow – or it could be consigned to the special purgatory of lost opportunities that could have saved the world.

A permanent state of crisis has intersected with the Supreme leader’s actions to create conditions for the emergence of a new ‘post-reformist’ conjuncture. Could this lead to a paradigm shift in Iran?

The Turkish authorities’ fight against real and imagined enemies in the Gülen movement has now reached Azerbaijan and Georgia.

Recent creative writing and films feature women’s voices on Brexit, many of whom explore the paradox of migrants voting to leave the EU.

Russian theatre is fighting for the right to independence and diversity — and showing how to do that beyond political protest. RU

Perpetrators of hate crime and gang violence are turning to easily available weapons. Muslim communities are frightened.

Glimpses of life in a Greek refugee camp through the diary of a young volunteer.

After Grenfell, it’s time for the government to urgently rethink its attitude to regulation.

Half of all peace deals fail within five years. This is how you make them work.

80% of Rio de Janeiro’s residents believe they are at risk of being murdered in the next year. In a face to face encounter with the city´s darker side, how do you confront a suffering community? Español Português

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México es un país donde hoy el Estado de derecho se aplica sólo a aquellos que pueden pagarlo. Como señaló recientemente el Relator Especial de Naciones Unidas sobre la Tortura, el 98% de los crímenes en México permanecen impunes. English

We need more than just fire safety; we need fire justice, and a culture which takes stock of the fact that it is the poor and the disadvantaged who die in natural disasters.