The world over, most public opinion is ignorant of just how much violence has declined over the last 3,000 years.Judging by the historical record, the 21st century is, thus far, the least violent and safest century of all, despite Daesh, despite Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, Sudan,

The Greek clash with the EU continues.

Russian European dreamers included Alexander Pushkin, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Mikhail Gorbachev and until relatively recently, President Vladimir Putin. They have all seen their country’s future as part of the “European house”.But history and events have not been kind to Russia.

As long as Jeb Bush stays in the race for president of the US, the issue of the Iraq war will not go away.The fact that Iraq is descending into further chaos and that he is the brother of ex-president George W.

Both the West and Russia have a responsibility to make sure they do not throw the baby out with the bath water as their quarrel over Ukraine continues.So much has been achieved since the end of the Cold War; why throw it away because of Ukraine?Ukraine is a marginal country.

In a BBC World broadcast yesterday morning, its considered opinion is that the ceasefire in eastern Ukraine, where Russian-backed rebels battle US-backed Ukrainian forces, is working. There are still too many skirmishes, too many guns and mortars being fired, but the big guns ar

The first recorded parliamentary debate on the use of the death penalty was held in 427 BC when Diodotus, arguing that the penalty was not a deterrent, persuaded the Athenian assembly not to execute the Mitylene rebels. The debate goes on, in America in particular, a big time us

The debate over a way to end the Iranian nuclear (bomb?) crisis is now, rightly, the number one issue in Western foreign policy. Compared to that, the partial civil war in Ukraine seems trivial, one that could be solved in a week if only the West would make clear that Ukrainian

Iran will find it easier to kill the nuclear bomb deal than the Republicans in Congress. Why?