The World Today Lessons from the 1950s on mind control Sarah Marks and Daniel Pick explore the difficulty in pinpointing how radicalization works in practice
The World Today Robert Tombs, historian and author The Cambridge history professor looks at the future of British identity in the light of Brexit and the power of the Magna Carta myth
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The World Today Democracy is still the answer for Arab world Wadah Khanfar analyses the power plays that have torn the region apart
The World Today Can you ever de-radicalize the extremist? How do young people get ‘radicalized’ and transform into terrorists? This has perplexed governments for the past decade and, despite the investment of huge sums, it is still not possible to draw up a reliable profile of a budding terrorist.
The World Today Taming the solo terrorist Christopher Stewart on the killers who use the media as a weapon
The World Today New Caledonia’s time to decide Alex Vines on the island’s referendum to break free from France
The World Today Parents are forced to look elsewhere Peter Selman on how adoption across borders is in decline
The World Today Lebanon’s refugee fatigue Attempts to stem flow of Syrians are counterproductive, says Haid Haid
The World Today The renminbi sold short Geoffrey Yu discusses an expert’s view on the Chinese currency’s flaws
The World Today Can a jobless pay packet work? Juhana Vartiainen on a Finnish trial to see the effects of a citizen’s salary
The World Today Liberalism’s last fortress Catherine Fieschi looks at the re-emergence of the notion of sanctuary
The World Today Fifty years on from the six-day war Burhan Wazir looks at an account of the war that remains the most consequential of all the regional wars in the Middle East
The World Today Will Guinea beat its fatalité? Escaping the past has been a thirty-year journey, writes Paul Melly
The World Today Luther’s hammer is still heard Kate Connolly looks at Protestantism’s influence on German politics
The World Today Guy Verhofstadt The EU parliament’s Brexit negotiator and former Belgian prime minister has strong views on how to fix the weaknesses of the European Union. Here are five things he told an audience at Chatham House on January 30.
The World Today Melinda McRostie Starfish founder who offers refugees support on the Greek island of Lesbos
The World Today The First Fourteen Days In his first two weeks in the White House Donald Trump delighted his supporters and spread consternation around the world. Here are some of his concrete actions
The World Today Why do we use the term 'radicalization'? The word ‘radicalization’ has been used intensively over the past decade to talk about recruitment to extremist terrorism, usually within an Islamist framework. But why do we use it?
