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Can Israel and Hamas be held to account for alleged crimes against civilians?

By Amy Maguire International humanitarian law – the law of armed conflict – aims to constrain how wars are fought. It is designed to protect noncombatants and limit the means of warfare.…

by Dialektika

October 19, 2023

Society & Politics

The EU and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: many voices, no shared vision

At this stage, coordinated action by France, Germany and the UK, as in the case of Iran, does not seem to be in sight either. Unfortunately, the Israeli-Palestinian issue shows the limits…

by Dialektika

October 19, 2023

Politics

High quality international education as a catalyst for growth of future leaders

It is about showcasing how to interpret ‘the other’ by adopting an attitude of acceptance and tolerance…

Marijana ProdanovićandBegoña Crespo

September 4, 2023

Editors' Picks·Education

The BADGER explosion on April 18, 1953, as part of Operation Upshot-Knothole, at the Nevada Test Site. Photo courtesy of National Nuclear Security Administration / Nevada Site Office

Oppenheimer’s warning lives on: international laws and treaties are failing to stop a new arms race

As with every potential future threat, it seems, international law and regulation are left scrambling to catch up with the march of technology – to govern what Oppenheimer called “the relations between…

by Dialektika

July 30, 2023

Editors' Picks·Politics

Noam Chomsky versus Collapse Theory – A New “Debate of the Century”

A New “Debate of the Century” between Noam Chomsky, Miguel Fuentes, Guy McPherson, John Bellamy Foster, Yanis Varoufakis, and Max Wilbert…

by Dialektika

July 28, 2023

Society & Politics

Mass shootings in Serbia. Photo by: Yamel Santana Valdés-Hernández.

What mass shootings in Serbia tell us about systemic violence and social death

Although Serbia still ranks third behind the United States and Yemen in gun ownership, with an estimated 39 firearms per 100 inhabitants, acts of this nature are atypical in the country…

Jorge Gonzalez ArochaandYamel Santana Valdés-Hernández

May 26, 2023

Editors' Picks·Society & Politics

The politics of the castaway story

The castaway story has helped promulgate a view about human nature as eternal and unchanging. By taking human beings out of society, our supposedly fundamentally individualist survival instincts come to the fore.…

by Dialektika

April 19, 2023

Philosophy·Politics

Caution Tape at the United States Capitol in Washington D.C.

Why can’t Americans agree on, well, nearly anything? Philosophy has some answers

Two ideas can help us think about polarization on matters of fact. The first is epistemic pluralism, and the second is epistemic dependence…

by Dialektika

March 6, 2023

Editors' Picks·Society & Politics

CUBA. Rebels in Havana. 1959. Crowd awaits Carto to come on to balcony.

Cuba: A Critique of Despotic Reason

The silences, half-truths, concealments, and deceptions that the region's leftists dispense to their critical peers on the island and, in general, to the entire population are expensive. They impact thousands of concrete…

by Armando Chaguaceda

February 18, 2023

Society & Politics

One Year of “Russian World”

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has been going on for a year now. In the speech before US Congress, Ukrainian President Zelensky said:” The Russians will stand a chance to be free…

by Michael Fedorovsky

February 15, 2023

Opinion·Politics

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