Three perspectives on whether the internet is having a damaging impact on democracy.

What could Americans and Europeans learn from each other about the looming crisis of democracy?

The topic of education fits neatly into the orientalist middle class rhetoric about the poor, ignoring its role as an instrument of class power and domination in an autocratic country like Egypt. 

Mohammad bin Salman is now MENA’s main threat to peace, stability, and hope for democratization in the Arab world.

Seven years after the Tunisian revolution one can dissect four main conflict issues in Tunisia today.

Putting “Mohammad bin Salman” next to “Arab Spring” is either an oxymoron or an antithesis.

How is the Saudi-Iranian rivalry overwriting the Arab Spring’s key messages?

Given the complex attitudes towards foreign interventions in Libya, we need a clear strategy that stands up to local, regional, and international scrutiny.

The current UN Charter is unsuitable, outdated and preoccupied with the era of decolonisation, which posed very different challenges to those we are facing today.

In an era characterised by reversibility, platform capitalism is producing newly discernible forms of aggregation and dispersal. Some things are certain: we need a socialism of the twenty-first century, and meaningful cultures of debate.

Elections are not a bad thing. But for the sake of our own commitment to honesty, let us not deceive ourselves into believing that Jordan is democratizing. 

Along with digital exclusion, polarization and manipulation are the main problems of digital democracy. Español

As illiberal democracy is becoming more the norm than the exception in the world, Turkey’s referendum is another missed historical opportunity.

The replacement of democratically elected HDP/DBP mayors and local municipality workers by AKP appointees is a grave threat to democracy in Turkish Kurdistan and the larger region.

Why oD-UK launches openJustice, focusing on the dismantling UK justice system.

Across the USA, voters are pushing for public-matching systems to replace the influence of wealthy bankrollers in elections.

If autonomy is to prevail then it should be an autonomy within a fully and strictly democratic Morocco, and if confederation is to prevail then a confederation within a fully and strictly democratic Western Sahara.

The foundations of UK democracy are threatened by a crisis in voter registration. 

Tunisia's sovereignty is already at risk, and its destiny now seems to depend largely on negotiations between an international oligarchy and the national plutocracy.

Morocco: stable, reformist, and taking steady if slow steps towards democracy—right? Wrong. Some common myths debunked.