The day after New Labour took office in May 1997, Frank Field's appointment as Minister for Welfare Reform was high on the government's news agenda. Yet, by August 1998, Field was out of office and w
Latin America is an increasingly important geopolitical entity and its nations are emerging as some of the most influential and radical states in the modern world. The media conglomerates which contro
Matt Beech traces the ideological roots of the Labour Party from its nineteenth century origins in the Labour Movement, through the twentieth century, until the years under Tony Blair. He claims that
Does patriotic pride inevitably develop into nationalistic aggression? Is this exacerbated by the global outreach of the media? And what is the relationship between mainstream politics and increasingl
Black Sea Politics presents a variety of experiences of civil society, looking at representation, participation and power relations in countries such as Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria, and the Caucasus ar
The Liberal Unionist party was one of the shortest-lived political parties in British history. It was formed in 1886 by a faction of the Liberal party, led by Lord Hartington, which opposed Irish home
Floods are amongst the most common and devastating natural disasters worldwide. A major flood may culminate in the death of thousands, sometimes millions, of people and cause immense damage. It may al
"For those of us who have to live with terrorism, when we leave home in the morning there is no guarantee that we will come back." Thus Lakshman Kadirgamar, Sri Lanka's Foreign Minister, foreshadowed
