Jonathan Power
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Associate Jonathan Power – one of the world’s leading columnists
on international affairs, human rights and peace. He syndicates
his columns with some 50 papers worldwide.
We are proud to have featured every one of them since 1997.
In 2003, Power returned to the International Herald Tribune.
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January 17, 2012 Taiwan is not going back to China
January 11, 2012 Muslim extremism in proportion
January 7, 2012 The 10th anniversary of the Euro – the creation of the politically united Europe?
2011 Columns
December 27, 2011 The US is off the mark in North Korea
December 20, 2011 War and crime is sharply down
December 13, 2011 Islam – Nothing to fear but fear itself
December 6, 2011 Terrifying blockage in nuclear disarmament
November 29, 2011 Rosa Parks of today – or how to tame the financial monster
November 23, 2011 The search for happiness
November 17, 2011 Finland resists immigration tide
November 9, 2011 Iran’s bomb will not be the last
November 1, 2011 Dangerous Pakistan
October 26, 2011 Gadaffi should have been tried
October 19, 2011 The end of Africa’s darkness
October 11, 2011 Ten more years in Afghanistan?
October 5, 2011 Who is the enigma – Putin or Clinton?
September 27, 2011 Endgame for Al Qaeda
September 20, 2011 Palestine versus Israel at the UN
September 13, 2011 Did America learn nothing from 9/11 ?
September 6, 2011 Is war receding as Barack Obama claims?
August 30, 2011 Despite Libya warmongering is down
August 23, 2011 Nigeria – Africa’s biggest country – is surging
August 18, 2011 London riots is nothing new
August 10, 2011 Israeli intrasigence ignores history
August 3, 2011 The "Arab Spring" – is Morocco ahead of the pack?
July 29, 2011 Are the poor getting hungrier?
July 20, 2011 No progress in Guatemala, Latin America’s most violent state
July 12, 2011 The immigration debate is extremely misleading
July 5, 2011 Obama is cornered by his generals on Afghanistan
June 29, 2011 The Afghanistan imbroglio
June 23, 2011 Time overdue that Russia enters the EU
June 14, 2011 Turkey’s general election and the Kurds
June 7, 2011 The madness of American and European economic policies
May 31, 2011 Amnesty International is 50 this week
May 25, 2011 World poverty: this is progress
May 17, 2011 The communists lost in India’s West Bengal but Kolkata is heading for world city status
May 11, 2011 Could the Second World War have been avoided?
May 2, 2011 The killing of bin Laden and the American arrogance of power
April 26, 2011 A court to arrest dictators before the damage is done
April 20, 2011 Is the UN becoming a warrior?
April 7, 2011 Nigeria is becoming number one
March 29, 2011 The "No First Use" of nuclear weapons debate
March 23, 2011 Hiroshima and today’s earthquake
March 15, 2011 A no-fly zone over Libya won’t work!
March 9, 2011 Maoist insurgency in India
March 2, 2011 The UN Security Council refers Gaddafi to War Crimes Court
February 23, 2011 The non-violent struggle in the Middle East
February 15, 2011 Mistaken fear of change in Egypt – and non-violence works!
February 8, 2011 Worrying about China’s military strength
February 1, 2011 The cutting of a trusted voice: BBC World Service
January 26, 2011 Dangers of conventional wisdom
January 21, 2011 Is Israel the only possible homeland for Jews?
January 11, 2011 The Third World is catching up
January 4, 2011 So aid doesn’t work?
2010 Columns
December 31, 2010 Is Afghanistan another Vietnam?
December 22, 2010 Astute thinking is quickly needed on the Korean peninsula
December 15, 2010 The micro-credit revolution fights back
December 8, 2010 At the economic heart of India
December 2, 2010 A bit of cricket in the Afghanistan debate
November 25, 2010 After the NATO-Russian Summit, it is time to reflect on peace
November 16, 2010 Preventing more ethnic disputes
November 10, 2010 China’s assertiveness in the South China Sea
November 2, 2010 Sweden’s success in combating sex trafficking
October 26, 2010 The mid term U.S. elections are not that important to Obama
October 19, 2010 Death of the Soviet Union’s foreign policy guru
October 13, 2010 Norway – women at the top
October 6, 2010 Brazil is moving from Third World to First World
September 29, 2010 Brazil’s strightforward elections on October 3
September 22, 2010 Is China expanding?
September 14, 2010 Sweden’s election on Sunday – a conservative sweep in a socialist land?
September 6, 2010 Sunday’s referendum and the future of the Turkish Kurds – more progress and less war?
August 31, 2010 If Iran why not Britain abjuring nuclear weapons?
August 25, 2010 The lies of Tony Blair that led to the Iraq war
August 20, 2010 Devastating origins of the Afghan imbroglio
August 12, 2010 The former President of Mexico calls for drug legislation
August 5, 2010 The attack on human rights is flawed
July 28, 2010 The excitement of the big drop in the infant mortality rate
July 22, 2010 Russia inside NATO?
July 15, 2010 Israel’s dangerous ignorance about its own history
July 7, 2010 Government use of torture in the U.K.?
June 30, 2010 Latin America succeeds at more than just the World Cup
June 25, 2010 Africa roaring to go
June 16, 2010 Iran’s nuclear deal with Turkey and Brazil worth another look
June 9, 2010 The International Criminal Court is on the up
June 1, 2010 Israel’s attack could well become the turning point Selma Alabama did
May 25, 2010 How soon withdrawal in Iraq?
May 22, 2010 Israel is shooting itself in the foot – and in its back
May 13, 2010 The up and coming state of Nigeria after the death of its president
May 5, 2010 Can the terrorists halt India’s peace deal with Pakistan?
April 29, 2010 New contours in UK elections
April 20, 2010 Obama’s empty promises on human rights
April 15, 2010 Kolkata – The legacy of empire
April 7, 2010 Is the U.S. really prepared to nuke Iran?
April 1, 2010 This is the exact moment to start total nuclear disarmament
March 23, 2010 Obama must put Palestine before Israel On the visit of Netanyahu to Washington…
March 17, 2010 Obama’s foreign policy in the sand
March 9, 2010 Misleading us on climate change
March 3, 2010 Maoists on the up in India
February 24, 2010 Amnesty off the piste
February 17, 2010 Haiti – failed state forever?
February 9, 2010 Forgetting about North Korea’s bomb
February 3, 2010 Tony Blair’s obfuscation on Iraq war
January 28, 2010 Communism in India
January 23, 2010 Nigerian president half dead
January 15, 2010 Can there be peace now between India and Pakistan?
January 5, 2010 War crimes punishment on a roll
2009 Columns
December 31, 2009 Total nuclear disarmament in 2010
December 24, 2009 Obama’s peace and war
December 19, 2009 India resurgent
December 9, 2009 The horror side of capitalism: Bhopal 24 years
December 2, 2009 Why not Turkey in the EU?
November 24, 2009 A surplus of men. A deficit of peace?
November 19, 2009 America’s war criminals
November 12, 2009 Breeding Bin Ladens
November 3, 2009 The arm of the terrorists is not that long
October 30, 2009 Free trade is coming back
October 23, 2009 Absolutely nothing in the news!
October 13, 2009 We will live for ever!
October 7, 2009 The search for happiness
October 1, 2009 Running out of goals? Poverty remains…
September 22, 2009 War works?
September 15, 2009 The exaggerations of the climate debate
September 7, 2009 War in abeyance?
August 26, 2009 How not to capture Osama
August 18, 2009 There are many Irans
August 11, 2009 The division of Jerusalem has to be faced now
August 4, 2009 Who’s left? What’s right?
July 28, 2009 Democracy gone to seed?
July 21, 2009 Russia, Europe’s other half On Medvedev’s proposal for a new European Security Strategy
July 13, 2009 Do the G8 know how to help poor farmers?
July 6, 2009 The G8 promises to help the global poor
June 30, 2009 The Obama-Medvedev Summit of July 7th
June 23, 2009 Can Obama and Medvedev press the reset button at their July 6th summit?
June 16, 2009 Europe, the great republic?
June 9, 2009 Can Obama marry the history of Islam with the politics of today?
June 2, 2009 Can the European Paliament help change Europe?
May 26, 2009 Now is the time for a deal on Kashmir
May 20, 2009 Talking to Sonia Gandhi
May 13, 2009 Legalising poppy growing in Afghanistan
May 6, 2009 A conversation with the man closest to Dmitri Medvedev
April 28, 2009 Have we forgotten the Convention Against Torture?
April 20, 2009 My daughter’s holiday in the Muslim world!
April 15, 2009 The big hunt from Eichmann to Bin Laden
April 7, 2009 Can Obama do better than Reagan on nuclear arms control?
March 31, 2009 At the London G 20 meeting tooth fairies could help with the economic crisis
March 25, 2009 A re-entry strategy into Afghanistan?
March 18, 2009 Engage more, do war less in Afghanistan
March 11, 2009
On how not to press the re-set button
March 4, 2009 The Jews have no right to their Old Testament conquests
February 24, 2009 India is key to peace in Pakistan and Afghanistan
February 19, 2009 Resurrecting Keynes, the world’s greatest economist
February 10, 2009 The Pope should resign
February 3, 2009 Undermining Afghanistan’s opium business
January 27, 2009 Libya’s lesson for Iran
January 21, 2009 Can Obama meet the world more humbly?
January 13, 2009 Obama’s inheritance of torture
January 7, 2009 Palestine and the war of civilisations
2008
December 30, 2008 Is Sweden in the midst of political change?
December 23, 2008 Twisting the words of Paul McCartney
December 15, 2008 Nuclear matchsticks on the Indian sub-continent
December 10, 2008 Walkers of the World, Unite!
December 3, 2008 The triangle of madness
November 26, 2008 The hurry to get rid of big power nuclear arms
November 19, 2008 Obama and the Iranian bomb
November 12, 2008 Next step – Obama’s foreign policy
November 5, 2008 President Barack Hussein Obama
October 28, 2008 War is not how McCain describes it
October 22, 2008 Non-violence – a dangerous idea
October 14, 2008 North Korea – the long way round
October 7, 2008 Exiting Iraq and Afghanistan
October 1, 2008 America in this financial crisis must end its military dreams
September 27, 2008 America’s love/hate relationship with the United Nations
September 19, 2008 Downhill in Afghanistan
September 12, 2008 The dreadful simplicity of today’s war-mongers
September 7, 2008 After Georgia, get ethnic conflict in proportion
August 28, 2008 The long insult to Russia
August 22, 2008 How not to deal with Russia
August 14, 2008 Russia should be law-abiding with Georgia
August 8, 2008 The U.S. needs international law
August 1, 2008 Without an American war on poverty
July 24, 2008 Defeating the military-industrial complex
July 17, 2008 This should be Obama’s foreign policy
July 4, 2008 Africa’s Cindarella
June 23, 2008 Beneath the surface in Nigeria
June 20, 2008 Nigeria after Obasanjo
June 2, 2008 A new missile crisis?
May 30, 2008 Immigration is not good for you
May 24, 2008 Why the Middle East doesn’t matter
May 17, 2008 The so-called World Food Crisis
May 9, 2008 Muslim deviance?
April 30, 2008 Looking at the end of Israel
April 24, 2008 Paris 1968 – the wrong story
April 17, 2008 U.S. torture – when can the prosecutions begin?
April 11, 2008 Saving Zimbabwe to save Africa
April 5, 2008 McCain’s Islamic demagoguery
March 28, 2008 Tanzania – an African country hurrying to the fore
March 20, 2008 Taiwan’s general elections could help make a grand Chinese peace
March 12, 2008 The 3AM call
March 8, 2008 Post Al Qaeda terrorists can be defeated
March 1, 2008 Obama’s foreign policy will win the world’s respect
February 19, 2008 Getting out of Afghanistan
February 16, 2008 Our racial prejudice in the Obama age
February 8, 2008 Will Bush fight Iran?
February 2, 2008 A double-headed double dose of Clinton is not what the world needs
January 26, 2008 The confidence to say ‘no’ to presidential warmakers
January 19, 2008 Is democracy going backwards?
January 12, 2008 Barack Obama’s remarkable personality
January 3, 2008 Musharraf is not the rogue; Bhutto was
William Pfaff, September 17, 2007 Jonathan Power’s book "Conundrums" – A Review "His is a powerful and comprehensive statement of ways to make the world better. Is that worth the Nobel Prize? I say, why not?"
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