Iran: the power of the negative , Aziz Motazedi
Since the establishment of the Islamic Republic of Iran in 1979, the miracles Iranians have witnessed often centre on what happens at the ballot-boxes, where the country's rulers allow Iranians to agree with what they have no choice but to...
Kyrgyzstan: a political retreat , Ben Judah
Kurmanbek Bakiyev was once hailed as a democrat, ascending to the presidency of this central Asia republic during the "tulip revolution" of 2005. Without natural resources such as oil or gas to fuel an over-powerful executive and a...
Abkhazia, Georgia, and history , George Hewitt
The article I was invited to contribute to openDemocracy to mark the anniversary of the events of August 2008 in South Ossetia and Abkhazia has occasioned an exchange of lengthy and sometimes heated comments (see "Abkhazia and South Ossetia, a...
Afghanistan’s election: a first verdict, Martine van Bijlert Alex Strick van Linschoten
Martine van Bijlert: How much to believe?
The foreign journalists who arrived to report on the Afghan elections are leaving, and the official observers are formulating their agreed conclusions (some irregularities, problems with the voter...
Zugdidi: Will I ever go back? , Zygmunt Dzieciolowski
I crossed from Abkhazia into Georgia to reach the town of Zugdidi, and my thoughts inevitably turned to my mother. She had never visited Georgia, but I saw that the people there had faced exactly the same dilemmas that she faced back in 1939: should...
Gerald Cohen (1941-2009), Marshall Berman
Alas, I have not been able to write a coherent essay on my dear friend Jerry Cohen. But I can offer some interesting notes. Most are from the first years of our friendship, in Oxford nearly half a century ago. Some are from the last years of his...
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