Topic: Royal Institute Of International Affairs

Radical youth group turning to violence

Analyst cites absence of reconciliation process . There is an emerging radicalisation of Bahrain's opposition movement as analysts say that while...
A hacker claiming to be from Saudi Arabia has paralysed the websites of the Israeli stock exchange and the national carrier. This cyber offensive...
The availability of finance to help developing countries tackle climate change is drying up, imperiling the international climate talks, the head...

Suu Kyi wins international relations prize

Myanmar democracy campaigner Aung San Suu Kyi has won this year's Chatham House prize for her contribution to the improvement of international relations, the British think-tank said Friday.The 66-year-old's fight to bring political change to Myanmar, for which she ...
On December 29, 2010, in an article looking at the investment opportunities within the broader energy sector entitled "What's Fueling Energy...

Scholarly cultural and literary magazines

As the 20th century progressed, the old critical review lost some of its former glory, but it often wielded an influence quite out of proportion to its circulation. Among additions of the scholarly type were the Hibbert Journal (1902-70), a nonsectarian quarterly ...
Illegal logging of tropical woodland has fallen sharply, providing welcome news in the fight against climate change and a lifeline for a billion poor people who depend on forests for survival, a report released Thursday said.Since 2000, international efforts to stem ...

Illegal logging declined worldwide since 2002

The amount of illegal logging is down an estimated 22 percent worldwide since 2002, according to a report released today by Chatham House, the London-based think tank.. Wood products made from illegal timber are often consumed in Europe, Japan and the United ...

FOREIGN POLICY AND THE LAW

The author discusses the origins and role of the New Zealand Institute of International Affairs and comments on the issues of process in international affairs and foreign policy. Such institutions as the NZIIA, and its forerunners in the United Kingdom and the ...
Continued reliance on oil is risky and expensive for business, say the authors of a new report from Lloyd's global risk assessment department, 360 Risk Insight, and UK think tank Chatham House.. When the hurricane hit the Gulf of Mexico in ...