World Politics News   Articles for World Politics Course

An unsteady peace has been broken in Egypt as tensions rise over the writing of the new constitution.  Secularists and Islamists fought in Tharir Square following a court decision on the previous violence in the Square during Mubarak’s rule.  We can expect these tensions to persist for some time; we can only hope that they don’t escalate.

There is an ongoing debate about what is necessary to protect the global environment.  Some of the monetary estimates of what it might cost to protect species from extinction sound prohibitively expensive, but the sums are comparable to what is being spent on what some might regard as less urgent matters.   The BBC has an article on some of these costs.

Growing income inequality across virtually every part of the planet (except for some parts of Latin America) seems to be a product of globalization.  But its political effects are, over time, quite corrosive and destabilizing.  Efforts to address income inequality have been stymied by an excessively ideological framework imposed by both the right and the left.  The Economist has published an essay which asks us to look differently at the problem.