Is it possible to suppose that the United States might finally experience its own perestroika after the end of the Cold War? I am not referring to the movement around
I first visited South Ossetia in the summer of 1995, just as the end-game in Bosnia-Herzegovina was being played out. I was ushered in to meet the so-called foreign minister
A short time ago, we crossed over to northern Cyprus, with a French colleague, at Ledra Street in Nicosia in order to meet our Turkish Cypriot friend from the Helsinki
The many victims of the war on terror have included multilateralism. So damaging are the effects that 2008 could see an unravelling even of the achievements of the multilateral approach
The eruption of hostage–taking onto the agenda of international politics and the lives of ordinary citizens worldwide – both those directly affected and those consuming the phenomenon via the media
To enter Gaza from Israel you have to cross at Erez where the Israelis have erected a huge new terminal made of glass, steel and Jerusalem stone (it is actually
Michael Lind, in his openDemocracy article "What next? US foreign policy after Bush" (12 February 2007), argues that there needs to be a global level of negotiations about
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
There is something perverse about globalisation. I live and work in the area of London targeted in the four explosions on Thursday 7 July. None of our phones worked for
In the images of falling statues we have witnessed the arrival of a new era, said George W Bush on 1 May 1 2003, as dressed in military fatigues he
Iraq has had elections but does not yet have a governing coalition. Since 30 January, politicians in Baghdad have been haggling over who should control Kirkuk and its oil and
Americas 9/11 and Spains 3/11 (or 11-M as Spaniards refer to the terrible events of 11 March 2004) have become the icons of a pervasive global
