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# The Week in 1 Minute: Divide and misrule? - March 17 – 23 on openDemocracy
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/week-in-1-minute-divide-and-misrule-march-17-23-on-opendemocracy/
- Published: 2014-03-23T00:03:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-04-23T01:37:34.000Z
- Description: The infinite capacity of current rulers of the world to divide and destroy is a theme which this week focuses on Crimea. oDR explores crime and politics in Crimea, thinks about an earlier, Balkan carve-up, stirs debate with a passionate denial by international lawyers that Crimea is another Kosovo
- Author: openDemocracy Supporters
- Tags: The Week in 1 Minute, #Migrated, #en, #Import 2026-04-09 17:46, #appended-excerpt

Elsewhere on oD, Paul Rogers [compares Putin’s speech](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/0e46f6649d/7262321cfa/112fe47273&ref=opendemocracy.net) with that of George W. Bush post 9/11; Iannis Carras ponders the [implications of the exit poll](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/0e46f6649d/7262321cfa/a2eaa25361&ref=opendemocracy.net) for **a less than moral or competent Europe**; and civilResistance authors urge the international community to respond to [a fraudulent referendum](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/0e46f6649d/7262321cfa/8d9b528772&ref=opendemocracy.net).  
  
In **Syria** too, [a sham election](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/0e46f6649d/7262321cfa/b869ad4395&ref=opendemocracy.net) will only divide the country further; while a moving *openSecurity* piece features those who risk their lives to chronicle the unending death and devastation and fear that [the international media have lost interest](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/0e46f6649d/7262321cfa/a6b234c390&ref=opendemocracy.net).  
  
Other examples of divide and misrule come from apartheid’s [legacy of torture](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/0e46f6649d/7262321cfa/bcde090e80&ref=opendemocracy.net), a [misleading enemy image of Scotland](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/0e46f6649d/7262321cfa/17f1e43281&ref=opendemocracy.net), an [occupied Taiwanese parliament](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/0e46f6649d/7262321cfa/b43a8cbc32&ref=opendemocracy.net), [protest against violence in Brazil](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/0e46f6649d/7262321cfa/e54ea05545&ref=opendemocracy.net), [racism across Europe](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/0e46f6649d/7262321cfa/acd2983081&ref=opendemocracy.net), [populism in Europe](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/0e46f6649d/7262321cfa/0cceb999cc&ref=opendemocracy.net), the [plight of the LGBTQ homeless](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/0e46f6649d/7262321cfa/4f0b1a776f&ref=opendemocracy.net) and [much worse in India](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/0e46f6649d/7262321cfa/5bc5ac4292&ref=opendemocracy.net), [two hundred years of schooling](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/0e46f6649d/7262321cfa/492a6b5ed8&ref=opendemocracy.net); and pre-election Turkey, where a cornered Erdoğan reckons he can do without [his country’s ](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/0e46f6649d/7262321cfa/eedd8f60df&ref=opendemocracy.net)[*twitterati*](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/0e46f6649d/7262321cfa/38c52d857a&ref=opendemocracy.net)*,* [opposition is weak](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/0e46f6649d/7262321cfa/eb224056fb&ref=opendemocracy.net), [debate futile](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/0e46f6649d/7262321cfa/a45a616672&ref=opendemocracy.net), yet [events in Diyarbakir](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/0e46f6649d/7262321cfa/93e9596d10&ref=opendemocracy.net) remind us **Turkey’s divisions may be more hopeful** than he wants us to think.  
  
**By way of antidote**, openDemocracy and Politics in Spires (hosted by the universities of Oxford and Cambridge) publish the (free!) e-book [***Democratic Wealth***](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/0e46f6649d/7262321cfa/44d2b17d89&ref=opendemocracy.net) on building an economy that serves the common good. This collection of essays from around the globe explores [a renewed interest in the republican tradition](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/0e46f6649d/7262321cfa/7c4adbb393&ref=opendemocracy.net): here, we offer [the afterword](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/0e46f6649d/7262321cfa/1e08488fa4&ref=opendemocracy.net).  
  
*Transformation* also wants to [reverse the power dynamics of philanthropy](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/0e46f6649d/7262321cfa/5be84d0814&ref=opendemocracy.net), and bring back the [transformative potential of storytelling](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/0e46f6649d/7262321cfa/16b9450c7f&ref=opendemocracy.net). *50.50* is at an urgent meeting of the **UN’s Commission on the Status of Women**, striving to put [unpaid care on the post-2015 agenda](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/0e46f6649d/7262321cfa/d9f6c8b601&ref=opendemocracy.net).  
  
They also ponder what [twenty years of democratic South Africa](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/0e46f6649d/7262321cfa/aa98df67ec&ref=opendemocracy.net) has done for women; define a new term, [citizenship deprivation](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/0e46f6649d/7262321cfa/f829e81798&ref=opendemocracy.net); and take [a close look at the murder of Loretta Saunders](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/0e46f6649d/7262321cfa/596be01296&ref=opendemocracy.net), **who researched missing and murdered Aboriginal women in Canada**, to expose structural violence against women.  
  
Meanwhile we ask [whether we are machines](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/0e46f6649d/7262321cfa/b4d39df8f5&ref=opendemocracy.net); if [FIFA will act on Qatar](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/0e46f6649d/7262321cfa/2017ae9083&ref=opendemocracy.net) or [Palestine](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/0e46f6649d/7262321cfa/55832aea53&ref=opendemocracy.net); [defend our authors and ourselves](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/0e46f6649d/7262321cfa/e2ce06a79f&ref=opendemocracy.net) against the charge of being ‘scabs’, and [mourn the passing of Tony Benn](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/0e46f6649d/7262321cfa/9b1e57443d&ref=opendemocracy.net).  
  
  
**Don’t miss:**

- [Tony Benn at the Convention of Modern Liberty in 2009](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/0e46f6649d/7262321cfa/bf4dce307a&ref=opendemocracy.net)
- [Russia’s top blogger on the Crimea](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/0e46f6649d/7262321cfa/0e1fa1554e&ref=opendemocracy.net)
- [Thanks for being so cool about everything](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/0e46f6649d/7262321cfa/f6a855a8ba&ref=opendemocracy.net), “says Putin” in The Onion
- Edward Snowden: [Here’s how we take back the internet](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/0e46f6649d/7262321cfa/3eb9e39a5a&ref=opendemocracy.net)
- OpenCityDocs Fest introducing Avi Mograbi’s [*Once I entered a garden*](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/0e46f6649d/7262321cfa/ea3f08304a&ref=opendemocracy.net) with the filmmaker on March 31

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The infinite capacity of current rulers of the world to divide and destroy is a theme which **this week focuses on Crimea.** oDR explores [crime and politics in Crimea](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/0e46f6649d/7262321cfa/36241fbe83&ref=opendemocracy.net), thinks about [an earlier, Balkan carve-up](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/0e46f6649d/7262321cfa/14833a907f&ref=opendemocracy.net), stirs debate with [a passionate denial](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/0e46f6649d/7262321cfa/d18f78b3d5&ref=opendemocracy.net) by international lawyers that Crimea is another Kosovo, and ends by contemplating [the partition of Ukraine](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/0e46f6649d/7262321cfa/1d84612839&ref=opendemocracy.net), alongside a poignant reminder of how all this began from an [American in Maidan](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/0e46f6649d/7262321cfa/6a5f76bf50&ref=opendemocracy.net).