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Rosemary Bechler is Editor of openDemocracy. 

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We need your ideas and your input

Rosemary Bechler 11 March 2013

openDemocracy's Editor on how an open debate between men and women could be one way in which openDemocracy moves ahead

France is a universal nation: Mélenchon speaks out

Rosemary Bechler 11 January 2013

In London last month to speak on a progressive alternative to the austerity policies which are being implemented across Europe (at the European Institute of UCL), France’s Left Front leader gave a follow-up interview to openDemocracy on the politics of the media, the evolving image of Marine Le Pen, colonialism, laicité, ideological hegemony, France and Europe.

Tariq Ramadan interviewed post-Arab spring

Tariq Ramadan, Heather McRobie, and Rosemary Bechler 5 December 2012

We are making a mistake, a very big mistake if we look at what we call the Arab Awakening only by looking at the whole dynamics in political and not in economic terms.

Free speech: working our way towards the liberal minimum

Rosemary Bechler 9 August 2012

openDemocracy’s Editor spends a summer afternoon in Oxford, catching up with the Free Speech Debate as it nears the end of its first phase. 

Jalal Alamgir, 17 January 1971 – 3 December 2011

Rosemary Bechler 30 March 2012

The tragic early death of the scholar, consultant, researcher and teacher, has elicited a series of tributes and testimonies to the life of a remarkable man.

Subterranean politics and the European debate

Rosemary Bechler 23 February 2012

Subterranean European politics draws on a new meaning of Europe already visible in cross-border citizens’ mobilisations, civil society networks, trade union struggles; it has now to shape Europe’s politics and policy-making.

Stronger, safer Scotland?

Rosemary Bechler 20 February 2012
Being part of the Union makes Scotland stronger, safer, richer and fairer. So says David Cameron, but Scotland is building an alternative vision of itself as a nation, outside the parameters of the neo-liberal model.

‘I am an American’ - filming the fear of difference: a book review

Rosemary Bechler 12 September 2011

Ten years after 9/11 and counting, Cynthia Weber’s project in ‘filming the fear of difference’ is more than ever relevant to our debates.

July update from openDemocracy editors

Rosemary Bechler 5 July 2011
How the dramatic events of the last few weeks have been seen through the eyes of openDemocracy writers...

From the future, what we want is….

Rosemary Bechler 12 May 2011
An invitation to readers, commenters and contributors...

Top Ten on openDemocracy - Editors’ choice

Rosemary Bechler 12 May 2011
openDemocracy editors choose a first draft of the best of a decade

The first quarter of 2011 on openDemocracy, a look back

Rosemary Bechler 10 May 2011
openDemocracy's editor looks back over the first few months of 2011 on openDemocracy

Voices from the military abyss – An Introduction to The Skinback Fusiliers.

Clare Sambrook, Rosemary Bechler, and Niki Seth-Smith 28 March 2011
openDemocracy and Our Kingdom are proud to serialiseThe Skinback Fusiliers, a fast, funny and deeply disturbing novel about life in the British army today seen through the eyes of three young men.

The dangers of illiberalism call for a pluralist state

Rosemary Bechler 10 January 2011
Paul Hirst explored one particular cause for the creeping authoritarianism of the liberal democratic state that he identified before 9/11: the worsening crisis caused by the attempt to govern by one community standard in a diversifying world.

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