This article first appeared in the June 2009 edition of Business Plus and is reproduced here with their kind permission. Continue reading
This article first appeared in the June 2009 edition of Business Plus and is reproduced here with their kind permission. Continue reading
Audrey Kurth Cronin. Ending Terrorism Lessons For Defeating Al-Qaeda London: Routledge; Adelphi Paper No: 394, for The International Institute For Strategic Studies (“IISS”), April 2008, 85 Pages, No Price Stated, ISBN: 978-0-415-45062-1 Continue reading
This article first appeared in the 11 June 2009 edition of The Irish Times and is reproduced here with their kind permission. Continue reading
This article first appeared in the April – June 2009 edition of Terrorism and Political Violence and is reproduced here with their kind permission. Continue reading
Richard Whelan, financial and international policy analyst, reviews the reasons for the new Depression and tries to see how events will unfold.
This is a journey of discovery and I hope you will join me. I have drawn on international expert commentary and opinion to try to make sense of what has happened to the global and local economy. We have to try to understand what went wrong before we can put it right.
I hope you will read this piece and that it will add to your understanding. I don’t pretend to have the answers, and I’m not sure if anyone yet has. Please leave a comment – take issue with me or add to the discussion.
Richard Whelan, Dublin, April 2009. Continue reading
Despite the election of Obama, Europe and the US are on diverging paths and very different tranjectories. Continue reading
It is difficult, but try to put aside for a moment the appalling conflict in Gaza, with its daily toll of lives and destruction. We need to focus on a major difficulty, obscured now by bombs and rockets, but which stands in the way in of ending this conflict. Continue reading
This article first appeared in the 7 January 2009 edition of The Irish Times and is reproduced here with their kind permission.
There’s a fuzzy perception of Russia today as being like a teenager “going through a bad patch.” Squabbling with its neighbours, inclined to throw its weight about, not fully reconciled to the loss of the Soviet Empire, overkeen on the trappings of wealth, but nothing it won’t – given a bit of time – grow out of. Having observed the fall of communism with some relief, many Western observers have been prepared to indulge the Kremlin’s post-Soviet antics, “throwing shapes” while it adjusted to a new reality. Continue reading