David Held - openDemocracy (Page 3)

9/11, and the end of the American century

The “war on terror” launched in response to the crime of 9/11 signalled the decline of American and western power and marked the emergence of a multipolar global landscape. The challenge now is to work out a politics of mutual recognition that meets the permanent reality of intertwined human fate,

By David Held

/ 9 Sep 2011

Dealing with Saif Gaddafi: naivety, complicity or cautious engagement?

How should the London School of Economics have handled its Libyan connections? Fred Halliday strongly opposed engagement, while David Held, Co-Director of LSE Global Governance, has been a major supporter. Is this shown to have been naïve or complicit? No - a risk worth taking, argues the author

By David Held

/ 16 Mar 2011

The Arab 1989?

The uprisings sweeping across the Middle East portend a political transformation as significant as those of 1989. The economic stagnation of the region, the failures of corrupt and repressive autocratic regimes, conjoined with a disenchanted youthful population wired together as never before, have

By David Held, Kristian Coates Ulrichsen and Alia Brahimi

/ 11 Feb 2011

Global challenges: accountability and effectiveness

The paradox of our times can be stated simply: the collective issues we must grapple with are of growing extensity and intensity, yet the means for addressing these are weak

By David Held

/ 17 Jan 2008

Gordon Brown’s foreign-policy challenges

The opening weeks of Gordon Brown's premiership have brought a marked change of tone to the conduct of British foreign policy. The misconceived and counterproductive notion of a

By David Held and David Mepham

/ 10 Aug 2007

Building bridges: a reply to Anne-Marie Slaughter & Thomas N Hale

Anne-Marie Slaughter & Thomas Hales contribution to the openDemocracy debate on global governance and to the book Debating Globalization (Polity, 2005) decisively moves the argument forward and, in

By David Held

/ 23 Dec 2005

What are the dangers and the answers? Clashes over globalisation

Thank you openDemocracy and all those who have taken part in the debate on my essay Globalisation: the dangers and the answers. I have learnt a lot. Given how serious

By David Held

/ 10 Oct 2004

Globalisation: the dangers and the answers

1. The crisis of globalisation 2. The Washington Consensus 3. From the Washington Security Agenda to a human one 4. Towards a New Global Covenant 5. A Global Social Democratic

By David Held

/ 26 May 2004

Return to the state of nature

Wrong war. Wrong reasoning. Wrong priorities. Wrong timing. The war against Iraq is worse than reaching a dead end in geopolitical affairs; it is in danger of dragging us back

By David Held

/ 20 Mar 2003

Davos: a view from the summit

Something funny happened on the way to the Forum. Actually, something funny happened at the Forum. At first glance the 2002 meeting of the World Economic Forum relocated to New

By David Held

/ 13 Feb 2002

Globalisation: the argument of our time

Two scholars of globalisation clash over its nature, its originality today and its likely future.

By David Held and Paul Hirst

/ 22 Jan 2002

9/11: What should we do now?

The purpose of terrorism is to frighten you. 11-Oct-01 Tim Garden writes: In most counter-terrorist operations, the military are always subservient to the forces of law and

By Mary Kaldor, David Held, Scilla Elworthy, S Sayyid and Tim Garden

/ 10 Oct 2001