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About Ian Christie

Ian Christie is a writer, researcher and local government policymaker. He was joint head of environmental and economic policy at Surrey County Council.

Articles by Ian Christie

Wednesday 26th May

What next after neo-liberalism?

Ian Christie, 26 May 2010
Thursday 17th December

Copenhagen: climate countdown

Sue Branford, Ian Christie, Andrew Dobson, John Elkington, Øyvind Paasche, and Oliver Tickell, 17 December 2009
The United Nations climate-change summit is a vital moment in the world’s effort to avert catastrophe. openDemocracy authors reflect on what needs to happen and how much Copenhagen can achieve.
Wednesday 29th August

When the levee breaks

Ian Christie, 29 August 2007
When the levee breaks, it's a message for the world too (archive)
Wednesday 16th April

Food: what we eat is who we are

Ian Christie, 16 April 2003
Food, the daily ingredient of human survival, raises deep questions of politics, economics, the environment, and culture. Ian Christie introduces the Ecology & Place theme’s new debate on this most universal yet intimate of themes.
Wednesday 2nd April

What Europe? Whose century? Which project?

Ian Christie, 2 April 2003
Transatlantic strategic and political divisions lie within the United States and Europe as well as between them. Yet in this contested terrain, Europe’s debility is even more marked in light of the visionary fire of US neo-conservatives. Where is the source of passion and ideas that the European Union needs?
Wednesday 29th May

Three visions of politics: Europe in the millennial world

Ian Christie, 29 May 2002

The range of global political possibility has been transformed by post-cold-war turbo-capitalism. A new mapping of the political faultlines defines "high stakes", "shared values", and "natural orders" as competing versions of the European future. But could there yet be a fourth, involving the demise of the European Union itself?
Wednesday 22nd May

Motorway culture and its discontents

Ian Christie, 22 May 2002
The sheer ugliness and anonymity of motorways seem only to reinforce their destructive environmental impact. Yet even motorways have their poets and celebrants. But what are they doing to our soul?
Wednesday 8th May

Beyond Orwell: scenarios for the European long term!

Rebecca Willis and Ian Christie, 8 May 2002
Europe’s achievement in the last half-century has been immense. But all visions run their course, and today the EU needs more than prosperity and security: it needs a vision of the good life. Can ‘sustainable Europe’ provide it?
Wednesday 29th August

Coming or going? NGOs in the new political landscape

Tom Bentley, Richard Burge, Rebecca Willis, Ian Christie, Charles Secrett, and Anthony Barnett, 29 August 2001
The influence of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) - on governments, corporations, and public opinion - has not been matched by a clear understanding of their own role in the global order. What is their relationship to power? Are they agents of positive change, or merely of protest?
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