In the last days of 2005, leading thinkers and scholars from around the world share their fears, hopes and expectations of 2006. Forty-nine of openDemocracy’s distinguished contributors, from Mariano Aguirre to Slavoj Zizek, Neal Ascherson to Jonathan Zittrain – offer their predictions for the com
We must keep firmly in mind that democracies can fail. The barriers to democratic progress in the world today are far deeper than Anthony Barnett & Isabel Hilton allow, while
President Bush has opened his second presidential term with a sustained rhetorical effort to use the language of freedom as a way of reuniting the west under American leadership. His
Anatol Lieven is responding to Emanuele Ottolenghi's sharp attack on the chapter of his book America Right or Wrong: an anatomy of American nationalism which discusses Israel and
One of the principal arguments made in defense of unconditional United States support for Israel over the past generation is rooted in the American Creed. Namely, that Israel is a
The terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 were an atrocious assault on the American homeland. Any United States administration would have had to respond to them by seeking to destroy
General Gordon's last stand (Click for bigger image)
The real line of the Bush administration on Iraq is regime change. A compliant not democratic Iraq is its objective,
