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The oldest story ever told, Jong-yil Ra openDemocracy - Latest articles from openDemocracy The oldest story ever told, Jong-yil Ra What strategic dialogue? US-Pakistani cooperation in Afghanistan, Ehsan Azari The Battle of Britain 2010 Edition and Living in the Shadow of Empire, Gerry Hassan Kyrgyzstan on brink of revolution, state of emergency declared, Rukeyya Khan The virtual occupation of Gaza, Federico Sperotto Book review: The Spirit Level, David Beetham Authenticity and Textual Violence: the Case for Autofiction, Heidi James-Dunbar The oldest story ever told, Jong-yil Ra Romain Gary once wrote a short story, titled 'The Oldest Story Ever Told', on the relations between a Nazi officer and a Jew whom he maltreated. The relations between the persecutor and the victim may not be as simple as we usually think.... Read more » What strategic dialogue? US-Pakistani cooperation in Afghanistan, Ehsan Azari The fourth round of ‘strategic dialogue’ between the United States and Pakistan ended on 25 March 2010 in Washington, hailed as a win-win exchange. The US seems upbeat as its key ally in the region has finally intensified its efforts to root... Read more » The Battle of Britain 2010 Edition and Living in the Shadow of Empire, Gerry Hassan After a seemingly never-ending period the ‘official’ election campaign has finally begun. The 2010 British general election will be about many things: thirteen years of New Labour, Cameroon’s Conservatives, the state of the economy, public... Read more » Kyrgyzstan on brink of revolution, state of emergency declared, Rukeyya Khan A state of emergency has been declared in Kyrgyzstan following violent clashed between police and anti-government protestors on Wednesday. Kyrgyz troops opened fire on demonstrators in the capital, Bishkek, outside the offices where President... Read more » The virtual occupation of Gaza, Federico Sperotto On 22 August 2005, Israel completed its disengagement from the Gaza Strip, in accordance with a plan approved by the Cabinet on 6 June 2004.[1] In June 2007, after Hamas took control of the Strip, the IDF closed all the border crossings,... Read more » Book review: The Spirit Level, David Beetham The path-breaking book, ‘The Spirit Level’ showed how gross inequalities damage the whole of society. Yet a year later we are entering a general election in which the main parties will ignore their damaging effects. David Beetham suggests why.... Read more » Authenticity and Textual Violence: the Case for Autofiction, Heidi James-Dunbar A successful act of Life-Writing could reasonably be described as a reconstitution of facts bound up in a quasi-narrative form, in other words, a life rendered to a story. These ‘facts’ are of course open to interpretation and misrepresentation.... Read more »