Author: Colman

Recent events in Iraq and Lebanon lead me to wonder if the necessity to maintain at least minimal support for wars by avoiding large spikes in our casualty rates makes it impossible for modern, high-tech, highly connected...

I’ve stolen the title from this Scientific American article, which surveys the effects of globalisation on poverty in developing countries. It concludes: The expansion of international trade and investment is one of the...

The Financial Times asked Europeans what they thought of US foreign policy:In a Harris opinion poll, published on the eve of Mr Bush’s latest visit to Europe this week, 36 per cent of respondents identify the US as the greatest...

This (European) morning, Jérôme did a story on Eurotrib about a report from the McKinsey Global Institute think-tank that the FT had covered with the headline ‘Real Swedish jobless rate 15%’. So much for the vaunted...

The report of the Council of Europe’s special rapporteur on CIA rendition flights has been published and it does not make for cheerful reading. Based on the information available he concludes that many European states have...