Although its original charter made no mention of peacekeeping, let alone state-building, both now feature prominently in its activities. By Justin Frewen.
(This is the second of a two-part series. Part one can be found here.)
Sharing power because the voters have demanded that you do is a concept foreign to the British No2AV crowd. By Jason O'Mahony.
"...and if you're just joining us here on Election 2015, the news is that despite winning over half the votes of the British people between them, the first government to do that since 1931, the Conservative/Liberal Democrat coalition has been ousted by Ed Miliband's Labour party, despite having received less votes than the coalition."
Discontent and discord are the main features of NATO's intervention in Libya. By Seosamh Ó Riain.
Trust in the UN has been eroding steadily for the past decade. In the first of a two-part series, its decline as trusted arbiter of world affairs is traced. By Justin Frewen.
At least 26 children have been killed and more than 800 injured in violence between anti-Saleh protesters and Yemeni security forces since February, UNICEF has said in a statement. It counts some 55 children that have died violently in unrest through the Middle East and North Africa in 2011. This estimate does not include the recent conflict in the Ivory Coast in which 1,500 people are reported to have been killed in March and April.
The great contest between democracy and tyranny in the middle east and north Africa is unresolved. David Hayes asked openDemocracy authors to consider a number of questions:
Our obsession with the misfortunes on our doorstep have distracted us from the agonies being piled on peoples of other countries by our European and North American allies, writes Vincent Browne.
While Tunisia was rising and Egypt was roaring, courageous people in other countries started to challenge their own regimes, on the streets or via social media. There was protest in Yemen, Syria, Morocco, Libya and Algeria. Where will the spotlight of revolution fall next? By Amel Yacef
It seems that the success of Tunisia and Egypt in turning the tables on their governments could put pressure on young people in other Arab states to launch their own revolution. But at what price?
This article has been cross-posted from Bloomberg.com
On his second day as head of Iceland's third-largest bank, Arni Tomasson faced a crisis: The firm he had been asked by regulators to run was out of cash.
As violence spreads from Tunisia to Egypt and Algeria, Paul Rogers of OpenDemocracy.net outlines the reasons for the upheaval.
The uprising in Tunisia is at once a response to systemic inequity and injustice and an expression of the limits of elite control. But to the economic and political ingredients of the revolt must be added the potent if less evident one of global environmental crisis.