We asked some of our authors around the world to respond to the following:
"About the Barack Obama administration, please tell us:
1 one thing you hope for
2
The conflict in Gaza has dominated world headlines since the closing days of 2008. The war there is an exceptional event yet it also contains many elements of the familiar
The United States presidential election has provoked huge attention in the rest of the world. But there are different kinds of engagement. Some are explored on the day of the
There are signs that the global financial crisis is giving some solace to forces of the political left. No wonder, for the left has been delivered a plausible story that
The escalating war in Afghanistan has been rising up the international
agenda in parallel with evidence of the Taliban's increased
sophistication and effectiveness. Paul Rogers has been tracking
A small ad in the British journalists' trade magazine the Press Gazette
has always stayed in my mind. It was placed by a freelancer in Tokyo
seeking commissions. The
What is the war between Georgia and Russia about? Ghia Nodia, theminister of education in Georgia, wrote in his first openDemocracyarticle (“The war for Georgia: Russia, the west, the future”
Everyone approaches the themes of this conference from a particular professional experience and angle of vision. In my own case they are a role at openDemocracy which involves commissioning and
Convened in an extraordinary meeting on February 17, 2008, in Pristina, the capital of Kosovo,
Answering the call of the people to build a society that honours human dignity and
Britain on 7 July 2005 became a different country. The four coordinated (and “homegrown”) suicide-bombs on the London transport network that killed fifty-two innocent people and injured more
The fact that history is lived forwards and understood backwards keeps journalists and historians in business, but can also offer them convenient escape from the responsibility to engage with the
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