american power & the world: all articles

The 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
Tuesday 13th October

Barack Obama’s poisoned shirt

Godfrey Hodgson, 13 October 2009
A Nobel peace prize intended to encourage the US president may do him more harm than good
Wednesday 30th September

Barack Obama’s great test

Godfrey Hodgson, 30 September 2009
The American president's political instincts undermine his capacity to make change
Wednesday 23rd September

Neo-conservatism: Irving Kristol’s living legacy

Cas Mudde, 23 September 2009
A pioneer has died, but the intellectual-political current he led is strong inside and outside the citadel
Thursday 17th September

Warsaw and Washington: after illusion

Adam J Chmielewski, 17 September 2009
The US's cull of its missile-defence plans in central Europe teaches a bitter lesson  
Thursday 27th August

The Kennedys, the Democrats, and Obama

Godfrey Hodgson, 27 August 2009
The Kennedy era is over. The space for Obama to make his own is narrowing 
Sunday 23rd August

Brazil, the United States and Chile: military ghosts

Arthur Ituassu, 23 August 2009
A plot against Chilean democracy in the 1970s has echoes in Colombia and Honduras today
Thursday 20th August

The Baghdad bomb, the United Nations, and America

Johanna Mendelson Forman, 20 August 2009
The massacre of UN staff in Iraq on 19 August 2003 has lessons for the age of Barack Obama
Tuesday 18th August

An Insurance Policy for the US-Russia Reset

Matthew Rojansky, 18 August 2009
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
Friday 14th August

The United States: democracy, with interests

Godfrey Hodgson, 14 August 2009
The fury at Obama's healthcare reform also reveals the flaws of United States governance 

The Georgia-Russia war, a year on

Donald Rayfield, 14 August 2009
Georgia’s disastrous defeat in the conflict of August 2008 is only part of a more complex story
Wednesday 5th August

Democracy-support: from recession to innovation

John Gaventa and Nicholas Benequista, 5 August 2009
A worldwide, grassroots view suggests that democracy is being reinvented from below

The guns of August: non-event with consequences

Ivan Krastev, 5 August 2009
The political fallout of the Russia-Georgia war of 2008 reverberates across the entire Eurasian region
Wednesday 29th July

Europe, America, Russia: the world-changing tide

29 July 2009
An open letter to President Obama is caught in nostalgia and fails to address emerging global realities.
Friday 24th July

East-central Europe to Barack Obama: an open letter

openDemocracy, 24 July 2009
The once close relationship between eastern Europe and the US is growing distant. How to put it right?
Thursday 16th July

Obama in Moscow - perhaps a B-minus?

Wayne Merry, 16 July 2009
President Obama did not perform as well as expected during his recent visit to Moscow argues E. Wayne Merry
Tuesday 14th July

Democracy-promotion: doctrine vs dialogue

Mariano Aguirre, 14 July 2009
George W Bush championed it. Barack Obama underplays it. The subtle way may be the best
Friday 10th July

Barack Obama: a six-month assessment

Godfrey Hodgson, 10 July 2009
The change-making potential of the US president is becoming clearer
Friday 19th June

Torture: America's policy, Europe's shame

Jan Egeland and Mariano Aguirre, 19 June 2009
The secret empire of violation that shadowed the "war on terror" must be held to account  
Monday 8th June

The Cairo speech: letter to America

Godfrey Hodgson, 8 June 2009
Barack Obama’s intended audience for his "new beginning" with Muslims was also at home
Wednesday 3rd June

Barack Obama's middle east: pragmatism and hope

Robert G Rabil, 3 June 2009
The US president's Cairo speech will be a measure of the prospects for a new peace process
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