north Africa Articles

Why does international development matter? This is a question I’ve thought about before in my life, so when Ed Miliband kindly asked me to join Jim Murphy, Gavin Shuker and Ray Collins in the shadow international development team last week, it was an exciting chance...

In the desert of the Sahel, European foreign policy has finally come of age. The French intervention, supported by the EU and US and backed by regional allies and international institutions has (at least until now) been a resounding success. Not only that, but this...

As Obama’s second term begins, foreign policy looms large. Following his public inauguration, Barack Obama has now begun his second term of office.  While this is a high moment for the Democratic Party (Obama is just the second Democrat to be re-elected president...

Quite a lot of foreign policy happened this week; but for the sound of silence from the British left you might have been forgiven for thinking that the world outside the British Isles had ceased to exist. The natural posture of opposition parties is parochial: but the...