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About David Rieff

David Rieff is a Senior Fellow of the World Policy Institute and a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine. He is the author of Slaughterhouse: Bosnia and the Failure of the West (Simon & Schuster, 1995), A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis (Simon & Schuster, 2002), and At the Point of a Gun: Democratic Dreams and Armed Intervention (Simon & Schuster, 2005).

Articles by David Rieff

Friday 23rd February

Concerts and silly seasons

The interests of the great powers won’t be reconciled in a multipolar world, argues David Rieff. Competition, not cooperation, is the lifeblood of power.
Thursday 22nd December

Eppur si muove

In the last days of 2005, leading thinkers and scholars from around the world share their fears, hopes and expectations of 2006. Forty-nine of openDemocracy’s distinguished contributors, from Mariano Aguirre to Slavoj Zizek, Neal Ascherson to Jonathan Zittrain – offer their predictions for the coming year. Since this is openDemocracy, we did not expect them to agree. We were not disappointed. (Part Two)
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