Bosnia-Hercegovina, like the rest of the former Yugoslavian republics, has an almost impenetrable history to outsiders and non-experts. A contentious mix of political ideologies, ethnicities and religious beliefs – including nationalism and Communism, Serb and Croat, Catholic, Eastern Orthodox and …
Visiting Havana is like travelling in a time machine to a film-noir inspired past. From the classic American cars to the sunglass-wearing secret police and the city’s crumbling visage, Havana looks and feels stuck in the Cold War. Disembarking from …
Tel Aviv, 1933: Members of Betar, the Revisionist Zionist youth movement, march through the streets of Tel Aviv in clean, pressed, brown uniforms, performing militaristic drills to the jeers of socialists. In the minds of the Labour Zionists the uniforms, …
In the Summer of 1993 Samuel Huntington published his influential essay ‘Clash of Civilizations?’ in the journal Foreign Affairs. A book followed, minus the question mark, in 1996. His central thesis: many contemporary conflicts are expressions of an underlying clash …
