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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democracy & powerControl over people's lives is shifting beyond the grasp of traditional institutions. Democracy is embraced as a vision, but can be endlessly frustrated or disappointing in practice.
The great events in Europe in 1989 had a worldwide impact - and it was in many ways destructive
How do the upheavals of 1989 look now? On the anniversary, openDemocracy writers reflect:
Katinka Barysch: Timebends
Arthur Ituassu: A time of fusion
While celebrating Europe’s “velvet revolutions” we should recall that what happened in Srebrenica is also part of Europe’s post-1989 history
A massacre in Thailand's Muslim-majority south symbolises the state's lack of accountability
The fragmentation of Bosnia reflects the long afterlife of the Bosnian Serb leader's political project
President Lula's Brazil has achieved new status and rising prosperity. But two key tests remain
How, in a year of lost fear and found courage, east Europeans vanquished a degrading system
A year after the arrest in Iran of pioneering blogger Hossein Derakhshan, there is news of his fate
The state’s post-election violence has led Iranians to seek new channels for their anger and hope
The
achievement of a radical filmmaker divides and haunts Italy, thirty-four years after his death
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
The danger of states or terrorists using “incapacitatant” chemical agents is growing. It's time to contain it
After the recent Russian local elections were won by the Kremlin-backed ruling party, United Russia, opposition parties cried foul. A review of blogs and online comments from the Russian southern city of Astrakhan shows quite how bad things got.
The price of order in Ben Ali's fiefdom is paid in hidden violations, blocked lives and unaccountable power
The recognition of Kosovo damaged the UN and set a bad precedent
Thomas de Waal laments the destuction of irreplaceable archives in the post-Soviet warring
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 lasting judgment of the system that imploded in 1989 needs a large view. Fred Halliday's your man
Italy's showman-premier faces a struggle that will test his "postmodern populism" to the limit
The critics of the Yerevan-Ankara protocols neglect their potential benefits
A new assessment illuminates the roots of conflict in Africa's most complex region
A Nobel peace prize intended to encourage the US president may do him more harm than good
A clash over media is at the core of the region's bitter divides, pressing left and right into new shapes
The Armenia-Turkey accord entails a pragmatic and dangerous silence over the events of 1915
The frenetic urban growth of Bangladesh's capital forces its inhabitants into new ways of living
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