Civil society: all articles

Monday 16th November

Drug addiction: not quite as simple as Russia v the West

Russia’s government, faced with an explosive rise in drug-taking, is not quite alone in resisting the approach of harm reduction promoted by the United Nations and the World Health Organisation, argues Elizabeth Rigbey, responding to openDemocracy’s article Russia’s drugs problem: blame the West
Friday 9th October

Battling over Georgia’s media

While wooing the West with talk of democracy, President Saakashvili has ruthlessly pursued his goal of controlling the media, especially television, says Robin Llewellyn
Tuesday 6th October

From Cable Street to Cable Broadband

The extreme right has harnessed the power of Britain's twenty-first century connectivity, revolutionising the threat to our multicultural society.
Friday 2nd October

A dissident in the USSR, a dissident in Putin's Russia

Alexander Podrabinek, a former Soviet dissident, provoked a furore when he criticised pro-USSR revisionism on his blog
Wednesday 30th September

Kazakhstan: warm up for the OSCE

In 2010, Kazakhstan takes over the chair of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). Increasingly strident attempts to muzzle independent voices in the Kazakh media suggests how the government is preparing itself, says Irada Huseinova
Tuesday 21st November

Democracy in America: paths to renewal

An evolving common ground of open-minded, web-savvy citizens is creating a renewed civic culture of dialogue across the United States. It needs support at the centre too, says Michael Edwards.
Thursday 22nd December

Love, reason and the future of civil society

The foundation of a healthy civil society, reflects Michael Edwards, is a marriage of two human faculties often undervalued or misunderstood: reason and love.
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