It will be interesting to see exactly which customs the Vatican is going to allow from the past rich five centuries of Anglican worship, life and thought.
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american power & the worldThe period since 9/11 has renewed global debate about the nature of United States power and influence in a world being transformed by globalisation. openDemocracy writers - American and non-American - bring fresh perspectives to bear on the Iraq war, the question of empire, unilateralism, the "end of history", neo-conservatism, and foreign policy under and after George W Bush
A presidency born in hope of change is stuck. A year since the election, an anniversary assessment
Washington's offer of co-superpower status leaves the Chinese elite divided and worried
Barack Obama's outreach to Tehran allowed the mullahs to survive the post-election crisis
The tensions of international politics could yet work in favour of progress over Iran's nuclear plans
A Nobel peace prize intended to encourage the US president may do him more harm than good
The American president's political instincts undermine his capacity to make change
A pioneer has died, but the intellectual-political current he led is strong inside and outside the citadel
The US's cull of its missile-defence plans in central Europe teaches a bitter lesson
The Kennedy era is over. The space for Obama to make his own is narrowing
A plot against Chilean democracy in the 1970s has echoes in Colombia and Honduras today
The massacre of UN staff in Iraq on 19 August 2003 has lessons for the age of Barack Obama
The "resetting" of US-Russian relations faces many potential pitfalls, says Matthew Rojansky, but the development of US-Russian affinity networks could help the process to keep moving forward
The fury at Obama's healthcare reform also reveals the flaws of United States governance
Georgia’s disastrous defeat in the conflict of August 2008 is only part of a more complex story
A worldwide, grassroots view suggests that democracy is being reinvented from below
The political fallout of the Russia-Georgia war of 2008 reverberates across the entire Eurasian region
An open letter to President Obama is caught in nostalgia and fails to address emerging global realities.
The once close relationship between eastern Europe and the US is growing distant. How to put it right?
President Obama did not perform as well as expected during his recent visit to Moscow argues E. Wayne Merry
George W Bush championed it. Barack Obama underplays it. The subtle way may be the best
The change-making potential of the US president is becoming clearer
The secret empire of violation that shadowed the "war on terror" must be held to account
Barack Obama’s intended audience for his "new beginning" with Muslims was also at home
The US president's Cairo speech will be a measure of the prospects for a new peace process
The US president’s Cairo visit should offer the Arab-Muslim worlds an America they can at last believe (See also our account of Obama's speech in Cairo)
Hugo Chávez’s gift to Barack Obama is a blast from the past not a guide to the future
The US president reaches a landmark with his first-term achievement already in the balance
An eye-witness account in the US of the practise recently deployed during the G-20
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A shift of strategy towards “AfPak” must go deeper - to the local and regional
The US president's smooth European tour also clarifies the scale of his problems
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