The New Zealand Herald

Charles Kenny of the Centre for Global Development says that military expenditure as a percentage of global GDP is about half of its 1990 level. Worldwide, combat casualties fell 40 per cent, from 2000 to 2008. Violent deaths per capita this past ...

According to Peter Bergen, director of the national security studies programme at the New America Foundation, a total of 17 Americans have been killed by what he describes as "jihadist terrorists" since the September 2001 al-Qaeda attacks. ...

Evgeny Morozov pans "cyber-utopianism" in his new book The Net Delusion. As he points out, there were only 19235 registered Twitter accounts in Iran (0.027 per cent of the population) on the eve of the protests. The biggest night of protests in Egypt ...

It is individual states and not Washington that will lead the United States response to climate change, says Terry Tamminen, friend and adviser to California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.

"I couldn't agree more that the U.S. has to step up. The good news -- it is already happening," Tamminen said.