From PUP, the introduction to After Anarchy: Legitimacy and Power in the United Nations Security Council. Dilemmas of justice: Phil Clark on how the challenges faced by the International Criminal Court are about more than "peace vs justice", but Tim Allen remains broadly confident about the International Criminal Court. Here's why. You can measure peace with a rating, but can you understand it? Pro and anti-whaling nations are circling each other at the International Whaling Commission meeting. Andrew Darby reports on the manoeuvres, deals and compromises threatening the endangered humpbacks.
From The Economist, a look at how business is starting to tackle climate change, and how governments need to help; and a series of articles on how business is getting down to cutting carbon, but needs more incentives to make much difference to climate change. Bush kills off hopes for G8 climate plan: US recognises global warming danger but wants to lead response outside UN, as Bush plays for time as the planet begins to burn.
Form The Nation, The Case for Shared Sovereignty: Let's give up the illusion of a two-state solution—Israel's already a binational state; and For a Secular Democratic State: Zionism has run its course, and in doing so has killed any possibility of a two-state solution; and a review of The Tragedy of Zionism: How Its Revolutionary Past Haunts Israeli Democracy by Bernard Avishai; The Question of Zion by Jacqueline Rose; A Threat From Within: A Century of Jewish Opposition to Zionism; and Booking Passage: Exile and Homecoming in the Modern Jewish Imagination by Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi. A history of the hapless: Palestinians in Lebanon are long the unluckiest of the lot.
From Daedalus, a special issue on violence, including William McNeill (Chicago): Violence & Submission in the Human Past; Steven LeBlanc (Harvard): Why Warfare? Lessons from the Past; Mark Juergensmeyer (UCSB): Gandhi vs. Terrorism; Neil Whitehead (Wisconsin): Violence & the Cultural Order; Tzvetan Todorov (CNRS): Avant-gardes & Totalitarianism; Adam Michnik on the Ultras of Moral Revolution; Cindy Ness (John Jay): The Rise in Female Violence; Mia Bloom (Georgia): Female Suicide Bombers: A Global Trend; and James Blight (Brown): Robert McNamara: Then & Now. From Prospect, my brother the bomber: What turned Mohammad Sidique Khan, a softly spoken youth worker, into the mastermind of 7/7? Shiv Malik spent months in a Leeds suburb getting to know Khan's brother. A complex and disturbing story of the bomber's radicalisation emerged. John Gray explores Ed Husain's The Islamist, his candid, riveting story of how as a young man he joined and then left a radical British Muslim group.
Tony Blair reflects on the lessons of his decade as Britain's prime minister. Are the Tories under David Cameron a genuinely new party? Anthony Giddens David Willetts debate. 50 ideas for Brown's Britain: New Statesman asks the five leading think tanks of the left to suggest ten-point plans for the Brown premiership. The 1960s was a mythical period in British history in which the way the country was run fundamentally changed. Lectures about Heaven: Thomas Laqueur reviews Five Germanys I Have Known by Fritz Stern. She goes West, he goes Right: A study finds a lack of women in eastern Germany feeds Neo-Nazis. And Jerry Falwell lives ... in Poland: The Poles are now investigating whether the Teletubbies are gay as US religious-right style politics spreads through Europe
