For the last two months openDemocracy has been running a vitally important online debate on democracy and terrorism in association with the Club de Madrid. It has given regular people
This is unfair! Three choices of the year when the act of discrimination lies in what we decide to publish - not afterwards.
To make it more interesting I decided
This is an invitation to a turning point. In a surprising interview with openDemocracy this week, George Papandreou outlines his approach to a new way of doing politics. He wants
In his Editor’s Note, Anthony Barnett introduces George Papandreou’s ‘new way’ towards open politics.
openDemocracy: This year you became the leader of your party. Could you start by
Some of my colleagues have told me to come clean. In my 2 December editors note on why we are publishing Tom Nairns great response to Tim Garton
To read Tom Nairn's essay, "The Free World's end?", click here
If you share openDemocracy's commitment to dialogue about the key political
On 15 February 2003 millions of people around the world demonstrated in unprecedented numbers against the forthcoming invasion of Iraq. I was among those who welcomed this and argued that
George W Bush has gained a plurality of 3.5 million in the United States election. With a turnout at 113 million, that is close but decisive.
What does it
President Bush has lost. I dont mean the election that will be up to the American voters on Tuesday 2 November.
What I mean is that the 43rd United
The war in Iraq and how to fight terror on a global scale are playing a defining role in the United States presidential election. It is exceptional that foreign policy
Reinhard Hesse, who was born in 1956, died in Berlin on 11 October 2004 of a brain tumour. A speechwriter for the German Chancellor, Gerhard Schröder, he was an important
Anthony Barnett: What were your first reactions on listening to the British prime minister Tony Blairs speech on 28 September at the Labour Party conference in Brighton?
David Marquand:
