My students taught me that everything was personal - history, politics, foreign relations - but this approach creates boundaries as well as connections
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visions & reflectionsWhat 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.
A failure of accountability connects the crises facing the world community
The scale of global challenges in 2008 exceeds the tools to manage them
openDemocracy writers look the world - and the coming year - in the eye
If you missed it, it's here - a digest of seven weeks' output
"Peace on Earth" by 2020? It's possible.
Here's how
To
understand violence is to see the "I can" that is the human self
openDemocracy's founder is 65. His friends and colleagues pay tribute to a free radical
The fate of "iron Britannia" has bound a lifelong solidarity
Charles Taylor makes the new atheist orthodoxy look
shallow
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