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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visions & reflectionsThree former Western ambassadors to countries in the post-Soviet space applaud President Medvedev’s call for sweeping reform and suggest key paths to modernisation
A pioneer of geopolitics anticipates the work of creating peace and security in west Asia's "heartland"
The multiple crises of west Asia and north Africa require a vision of integrated and inclusive change
Cambodia's H1N1 precaution is a case-study in the local mediation of a global epidemic
People with more than enough have an immediate and personal obligation to help those in extreme poverty
The G20 is so 20th century. It's time for a Global Strategic Council
The shrillness and point-scoring of much net-based discussion is closing the space for politics
A new, young, African-American president opens a fresh political era in the United States and the world. openDemocracy authors offer their thoughts
The crisis of 2008 is a consequence of the pervasive impact of
market-driven policy. A new idea of the state is needed
An economic downturn makes the Doha summit on paying for development even more vital
The provocateur of a vigorous debate on business-led philanthropy returns to the fray
The G20 summit needs to match the progressive global ambitions of 1944-45. Step forward, Europe
South Africa's former president is seen differently at home and abroad. A key to understanding him?
A map of ideology from the French revolution to neo-liberalism sets its compass to the future
The project to end global poverty is made more not less vital by the world’s financial troubles
The mayor of Hiroshima's atomic-bomb anniversary peace-declaration looks forward
A "citizen media" summit highlights the potential and danger of activist blogging under dictatorship
How does openDemocracy’s editorial thinking inform its work, and how can it earn the trust of its users?
What connects elections, democracy, and poor people's
life-chances? India offers an answer, says this reflection published on 13 May 2001
Judith Herrin unearths the roots of the "cosmopolitan" and finds a vital source for understanding the globalised present
The refusal to participate in the Beijing-hosted Olympics in protest at
China's policies in Tibet is an ethical imperative
If philanthrocapitalism can't bring change, what can social-justice foundations do? Gara La Marche responds to Michael Edwards
The urgent needs of global social progress are not best met by the largesse of the super-rich
The map of world statehood is creatively fissuring, as globalisation breeds self-confident ambition among its underlings
The new communications technologies are a toolkit for enriching and
deepening democracy
When both states and cyber-enthusiasts love the net, a new danger arises: techno-compulsion
Dialogue, non-violence, global citizenship, autonomy, political freedom - "Mahatma's" ideas make him a contemporary
Markets and technology are threatening the basis of independent journalism. Will technology put news back together again?
Does solidarity come from the tribe? the past? the universal? No. We should be wary of such generalities.
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