Tackling the State’s problems requires structural change to decentralise and redemocratise power

Etain Tannam argues that John Hume’s central three-stranded idea for the agreement has been neglected

Worldview: Ireland was a pioneer settler colony of England

Worldview: Donald Trump must steer a path between the domestic promise of no more foreign wars and Netanyahu’s serial gambles on his support in Gaza and Iran

Worldview: ‘Barbarian’ is a term occurring in most civilisations to describe less well organised neighbours and colonial adversaries

Critics have begun to ask if Israel can still convincingly present itself as a safe haven for Jews

Worldview: The history of the so-called Gilded Age in America reveals massacres, ethnic cleansing and inhumanity on an unthinkable scale

Worldview: Outsiders can see Europe’s problems more clearly than Europeans can

Worldview: Europe can respond by developing links with China, Africa and the middle powers now asserting their role

Worldview: We need to forge a a rational, interest-based response to America First

Worldview: With his economic and policy goals often irreconcilable, how these economic and international contradictions play out will determine whether the US president-elect can claim success

Worldview: Multipolarity is based mainly on nineteenth and early twentieth century European precedents concerning balances of state military and strategic power. A multiplex world allows due place in producing order and disorder for institutions, corporations, extremists and social movements

Worldview: Improving local democracy should be a priority in talks on the formation of the next government

There are deep contradictions between Trump’s policies which empower the super-rich and the interests of left behind communities he pretends to represent

Worldview: Taking on Hizbullah and Iran and showcasing Israel’s mastery of intelligence boosted his popularity, forestalling an early election and political reckoning