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James Ron - Executive Editor
James Ron holds the Harold E. Stassen Chair for International Affairs at the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey School for Public Affairs and its
Arab Awakening's columnists offer their weekly perspective on what is happening on the ground in the Middle East. Leading the week, Why use violence against peaceful protesters?
Join health campaigners and workers as they Hunt for Jeremy Hunt in his South West Surrey constituency. Transport from London available through Unite the Union.
This week, Anthony Barnett brings back a passionate account of a ‘new way of living’ in Taksim Square, Istanbul, echoed by Nilufer Gole
We have spent the week, poised between Europe and the Middle East, putting Gezi Park into perspective, with Nathalie Tocci concerned for Turkey’s democracy, Neophytos Loizides identifying a crisis of majoritarianism, and Ali Gokpinar, shining a spotlight on relations between business, media and go
In a series of public lectures the Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance at the Open University examines social sciences at a time of crisis, exploring its limits, reworking old
In Britain, the brutal murder of a soldier in south London provoked media hysteria that openDemocracy set out to counter. Anthony Barnett warned that the act of terror would strengthen the surveillance state, while Paul Rogers urged us to recognise the links between the killing and Britain's recor
In our debate on ‘drifting apart’, we’ve been asking, Where to for Europe and Britain? An important voice speaks in the form of Alexander Alvaro, the Vice President of the European Union. Splendid isolation will do us no good, he says.
As we said good-bye to the best of 2012, Dan Hancox began our 2013 coverage and a new column - Revel, Riot, and Rebellion – with a spirited ‘good riddance’ to 2012 in Britain.
We started the week with a devastating analysis of Belgium’s ‘burqa ban’. Jelle Flo and Jogchum Vrielink expose this action – which followed France’s example late last year – as unconstitutional. Its arguments are based on legality, safety and women’s rights, but simply do not stand up to scrutiny
The conflict in Syria which began with a peaceful civil movement in Dara’a: Haytham Manna asks if it is possible to build on that when facing the threat of foreign intervention. Kristian Coates Ulrichsen considers the Gulf States’ relationship to the conflict, and Rita sends a message to openSecur
The week opened with our readers catching up with openSecurity’s conference on Syria’s Peace which took place the previous week; with Vron Ware and Ian Sinclair on the tenth anniversary of the biggest anti-war demonstrations ever to have resonated around the world; and with the news that openDemoc
