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Published in: HomeAll I can say is that you are uninteresting! An exchange with General Michael Hayden, Director of the NSA from 1999-2005On the first anniversary of Ed Snowden’s revelations, this interview contributes to what we intend will become a...
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Published in: HomeChina, 1989-2014: one woman's storyA Shanghai worker imprisoned following the Tiananmen events remains haunted by her experience, finds Kerry Brown.
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Published in: HomeTiananmen, and China's change
The heroes of the democracy movement were crushed in 1989. That taught Chinese people an indelible lesson, says the...
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Published in: openSecurityTiananmen Square: official silence, public restivenessIn the twenty-five years since the Tiananmen Square massacre, China’s party-state appears to have stabilised its...
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Published in: HomeGlobal Preventive Security and its unbearable lightnessOne now plays a part in one’s own protection. The institutions can help one to strengthen one’s preparedness. One...
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Published in: openEconomyPrivatisation of governance: a multi-stakeholder slippery slopeA tight overlap between economic and political elites creates a massive push to shrink the public sector to...
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Published in: HomeAfghanistan: history repeats itself when ignoredThe invading NATO forces, in an action allegedly aimed at the defeat of terrorism in a country which had no...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?“Desperate times call for desperate measures?”: the ‘Politics of anxiety’ and the rise of European ‘far right’ partiesWhat are we meant to conclude from the ‘rise of the far-right’? The narrative tells us that being objective,...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Quo vadis, Europe?Europeans, like most other inhabitants of the planet, are currently facing the crisis of ’politics as we know it’ –...
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Published in: openSecurityThe securitisation of dissent and the spectre of GeziAt the weekend police fired teargas at demonstrators in Istanbul, attempting to enter Taksim Square to mark the...
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Published in: openSecurityArbitrary detention, once again, in ThailandIf madness is doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting a different outcome, the authors of Thailand’s twelfth...
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Published in: openSecurityThe struggle over Chavez's legacyOver a year after the Venezuelan leader's death, the Chavez narrative is still up for grabs. From openDemocracy.
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Published in: openIndiaModi's extraordinary use of mobile technologyNarendra Modi with his Bharatiya Janata Party has used technology in an Indian election campaign at an unprecedented...
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Published in: HomeContent creation in the age of the mobile internetThe tradeoff between the capacity to upload and the possibility to download goes to the heart of the battle between...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaIsrael's two-step solution to African 'infiltrators'Israel's response to its first wave of non-Jewish African immigrants has been to stop the influx of refugees and not...
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Published in: TransformationWhen is civil society a force for social transformation?There are more civil society organizations in the world today than at any other time in history, so why isn't their...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?“Spain is Different”: Podemos and 15-MPodemos has presented itself as a party of "decent ordinary people”, who understand the needs of ordinary citizens...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaEl Sisi's tainted legitimacyElections have exposed the fragility of Sisi’s rule and sent up warning signs of the dangerous path that will be...
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Published in: HomeA global system failure: risk and reform
The global financial elite has ignored the radical lessons of the post-2007 crisis. But these are needed more than ever.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaEgypt: human rights on hold, in the name of economic developmentThe argument that economic development should precede human rights is tired and dangerous, though often seen. It...
