World Affairs: Global Issues
Lead Feature
An inevitable crisis
Viewed from a distance, the events of 2008 will be seen as a particularly dramatic example of the age-old cycle of famine and feast. James Buchan reflects on a financial crisis of unprecedented size and complexity
In global issues
Rise of the new Anglo-world order
- By Jonathan Derbyshire
- 18 December
It's an old controversy that was reignited this autumn by the remarks of a Nobel Prize judge: is American literature too insular, preoccupied only with the home country? If so, what else should we be reading in the age of globalisation?
Outlook stormy for Obama
- By Hugh O'Shaughnessy
- 15 December
The inclusion in Obama's team of so many figures from the past heralds the continuation of the policies of the past, some of which, even among Bushites, were seen to be stupid
A declaration of digital rights
- By Peter Bradwell
- 12 December
After 60 years, it’s time to refresh the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to take in the new digital frontier argues Peter Bradwell of UK think tank Demos
When writing saves lives
- By Mahendra Kusuma Wardhana
- 09 December
Mahendra Kusuma Wardhana - a former prisoner of conscience - has a personal experience of how much difference Amnesty letter writing campaigns can make
How to stop the pirates?
- By Brittany Peats
- 05 December
It seems absurd that modern day pirates can board and overpower huge tankers and merchant ships and yet sitting low in the water these vessels are vulnerable to attack
More in global issues
The triumph of greed
- By Clive Dilnot
- 04 December 2008
Plight of the unpeople
- By John Pilger
- 27 November 2008
Catastrophe averted?
- 20 November 2008
Recession blues
- By Martin Bright
- 13 November 2008
The fire next time
- By James Buchan
- 13 November 2008
The age of uncertainty
- By Tim Adams
- 13 November 2008
The last best hope
- By Peter Wilby
- 13 November 2008
