'Terror' is the name we give to vague and pervasive anxieties within us Unlike 'fear' it has no specific location but is all around us. Yet you cannot pursue a 'war on terror' without targeting specific persons. The very vagueness of terror prevents us thinking clearly about it. You cannot fight...

'Terror' is the name we give to vague and pervasive anxieties within us Unlike 'fear' it has no specific location but is all around us. Yet you cannot pursue a 'war on terror' without targeting specific persons. The very vagueness of terror prevents us thinking clearly about it. You cannot fight...

In the late 1990s, Somalia's business community struggled to profit in a market without any regulation. The government had collapsed and clan warlords had divvied up the country and the capitol. The business people supported the Islamic clerics who formed Sharia courts to solve disputes. After...

This article briefly explores the many ways in which the George W. Bush administration's response to the terror attacks of September 11, 2001 do not conform to the predictions of the rational actor model. The article suggests that foreign policy decision-making models which focus on the...

The history of the present is assessed in terms of forecasts that proved to be spectacularly incorrect. Debate about power in the past was largely state-centred but the realisation that the opposite of the state is not a free market but a political anarchy seems to have been forgotten. The...