ISIS has clearly expanded its theatre of operations beyond the Middle East but why did it target France?
We need a serious debate about the failure of the "war on terror". Here are a few proposals for an alternative strategy.
In 2006, a conversation before a large audience in Rotterdam on the role that Muslims should play in European societies took place, between Dyab Abou Jahjah, then president of the Arab European League with its Antwerp headquarters, and Tariq Ramadan. openDemocracy’s Editor was there. Archive.
How can the international community respond effectively and promptly to this growing threat, not just to the Middle East region, but to the world?
A look at Helmut Schmidt's little known but pivotal role in bringing Greece into the European Economic Community in 1981.
What control does Facebook have over our experience of tragedy?
The perpetrators of the attacks on the London Underground in 2005 were also born and raised in Britain. So much for the British-French dichotomy.
This simplistic stereotyping of 1.6 billion people as extremists is not only ridiculous but also has serious political implications.
La massacre del 13/11 revela la escala de la amenaza de ISIS. Es vital una respuesta coherente. English. Português.
Last week I spoke to Peter Oborne, associate editor at the Spectator, about the BBC. It was a fascinating discussion, encompassing everything from the leadership styles of recent director generals
"It is a France made up of diversity, plurality, of people coming together and mixing, that the terror wants to shut down, to silence through fear, to make disappear through horror. And it is this open society that we must defend because it is our most secure and lasting protection against terrori
The BBC plans to take the bulk of its television programme production out of its public service division to create a separate commercial body, BBC Studios, which would be a wholly owned subsidiary of the BBC Group.
