Jonathan Power




TFF 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.
More about Power here.

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2009 Columns

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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