Battle Readings is a regularly updated compilation of articles, essays, and opinion pieces relevant to the themes of the Battle of Ideas.
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International Relations & Development
We will pay a high price if we do not arm Syria’s rebels
Sooner or later some combination of the opposition groups will indeed control Syria. And when they do, their memories of who did what during the struggle to achieve a democratic Syria are going to matter far more to the US and Europe than policy makers presently calculate.
Anne-Marie Slaughter,
Financial Times, 31 July 2012
Millennium Development Goals Report 2012
The report presents the yearly assessment of global progress towards the MDGs, highlighting several milestones – three important MDG targets have been met well ahead of the target date of 2015. The report says that meeting the remaining targets, while challenging, remain possible – but only if Governments do not waiver from their commitments made over a decade ago.
UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, 2 July 2012
Time to consider military options in Syria
It is ludicrous to wait for the Syrian opposition overseas to unite under the banner of the Syrian National Council. Instead it is through the local co-ordinating committees of activists and the revolutionary councils in towns across the country that western powers need to advance, and justify, a more robust strategy.
Roula Khalaf,
Financial Times, 5 June 2012
The Significance of Borders
For almost three-quarters of a century, the countries of Western Europe have abandoned national sovereignty as an ideal. Nation states are being dismantled: by supranationalism from above, by multiculturalism from below.
Thierry Baudet, Brill,
1 June 2012
Rethinking Child Poverty
This short paper argues that the current measure of child poverty is inadequate. It fails to acknowledge that poverty is about much more than a lack of income
Centre for Social Justice, 12 May 2012
When China Rules the World
China will replace the United States as the world's dominant power. In so doing, it will not become more western but the world will become more Chinese.
Martin Jacques, Penguin,
29 March 2012
Poverty and Inequality
The themed section of this Review includes four papers that look, through different lenses, at the evolution of the UK income distribution – the components and dynamics of income over time.
National Institute Economic Review, 1 November 2011
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