The killing of British citizens without democratic oversight raises questions over the government’s use of drones

In August two British citizens were killed by British drones in Syria. The government has managed to avoid tough questions about the precise level of threat posed by the men to UK by conflating the right of an individual to self-defence with a state’s capacity to pre-emptive action. But Humeira Iqtidar writes that it remains hard to judge the appropriateness of the action because it was taken without any democratic oversight, raising worrying questions about the use of drones by the UK government

Where is the History of Political Thought Going?

After the recent publication of a couple of succinct and overarching essays covering the state of the field in the history of political thought (in the English language), Prof. Davide Cadeddu from the University of Milan expressed polemical remarks on some of their content. At the same time, he asked for comments on his own article, inviting the response several of English-speaking scholars (or scholars educated in anglophone cultural context). In response to this challenge, ten colleagues John Dunn (King’s College, University of Cambridge) Humeira Iqtidar (King’s College London) Iain Hampsher-Monk (University of Exeter) Richard Bourke (King’s College, University of Cambridge) Adrian Blau (King’s College London) Alexandra Chadwick (University of Jyväskylä) Duncan Kelly (Jesus College, University of Cambridge) David Leopold (Mansfield College, University of Oxford) Peter Burke (Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge) Richard Whatmore (University of St Andrews) answered with texts of different length and complexity. Depending on each case individually, each scholar was either in agreement or disagreement with the statements previously formulated by him, henceforth eliciting, more or less implicitly, new reflections on the matter at hand

The changing role of Muslim fundamentalists in Pakistan

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IMF ATTEMPTS T0 STRIKE BACK

it appears that the heady days when multilateral agencies such as the IMF and World Bank couid assume that every- body wiil automatically fall in line with policies of economic liberalization, deregulation and privatization of public resources are coming to an end. As the movement against corporate giobalization grows around the world, the agencies that acted as ‘faciiitators’ of this phenomenon are increasingly having to justify their actions. One such attempt at defending a key facilitator of corporate globalization, IMF, was made Kenneth Rogoff, Director of research at the IMF (2003), in an artists titled, ‘lMF strikes back’. That Rogoff has felt the need to defend this institution indicates the waning legitimacy of the International Monetary Fund and its sister organization, the World Bank