We should start understanding Europe not as an idea but rather as a clash of ideas; as a community whose ground is not an exclusionary identity, but rather a comprehensive solidarity.
Habermas likes to regard 'national solidarity' based on 'national identity' as a stage in the development of solidarity. It is just a step towards the mutual beneficence and trust that is based, not on imagined histories, but on actual mutual participation in political deliberation and decision-ma
Those internally displaced by the ISIS takeover in Iraq may seek refuge in KRG territory, but there future is uncertain as decisions are made about whom will be included in an independent Kurdistan.
Paul Rogers has been writing a weekly column on global security for openDemocracy since 28 September 2001. From this invaluable archive, here we foreground his work on the unfolding crisis
Particularly since 2006, when a multiparty system was introduced in Uganda, laws have been drafted with the primary purpose of stigmatizing particular opposition groups.
The digital revolution has strengthened the ability of large organisations to arrange production in ways that weaken collective resistance, and to control and keep watch on our societies. But those who understand the dual role of this revolution also see possibilities for the regeneration of democ
In his attempt to retain his popular support-base Rouhani has come close to losing the confidence of the Supreme Leader.
International football has been drastically reworked by global capital over the last three decades into a site of immense inequity. The hypocrisies of the recent World Cup urge us to see how the space of football, led by the forces of capital, is now ripe for insurrection.
Past Jewish-Arabic coexistence in Palestine teaches us that life in common prevails where “The Other” has a human face. Conflict did not always rule people's minds and hearts and it did not shape Jewish–Arab relations from the start.
Any apparent indications that the US may be rethinking its stance over Israel are unlikely to come to more than wishful thinking.
The landscape of Jerusalem is some of the most confusing and fractured in the world. Various armistice lines, illegal annexations, settlements, the 26ft Israeli wall, etc. have made it nearly impossible to make sense of the landscape in any coherent way.
A former aid worker who worked in Gaza for two years in the mid-2000s writes to his friends there.
