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Global competitiveness, the erosion of checks and balances, and the demise of liberal democracy, Eberhard Kienle openDemocracy - Latest articles from openDemocracy Global competitiveness, the erosion of checks and balances, and the demise of liberal democracy, Eberhard Kienle The death of capital, Michael E Lewitt Against power-mongering - moving on from the politics of 'winner-takes-all', Rosemary Bechler Against ‘common sense’: election reflections from a campaigner on migration and asylum, John Grayson Too much asked, too much given: the unsustainable position of the BBC, David Graham United States at the NPT: how far will the 'good guy' go? , Rebecca Johnson Allawi throws it all away, Mohammed Hussainy No release: lives in limbo, Jerome Phelps Within the hell of war lies a private hell, Laura Carlsen Siberian Shamans Come in From the Cold (part 2), Ken Hyder Global competitiveness, the erosion of checks and balances, and the demise of liberal democracy, Eberhard Kienle Today one of the major challenges to liberal democracy arises out of the turn taken by liberal economies since the late 1970s. Defined as a form of government that combines the election of the rulers by the ruled with effective guarantees for the... Read more » The death of capital, Michael E Lewitt Two years ago, John Mauldin was kind enough to publish my initial proposals for reforming the financial system. Entitled “How to Fix It,” the April 2008 issue of The HCM Market Letter raised a lot of eyebrows and upset many established interests... Read more » Against power-mongering - moving on from the politics of 'winner-takes-all', Rosemary Bechler The political commentariat are running around in ever-decreasing circles, trying to get back to business-as-usual politics. They are finding it extremely difficult to read the message that was delivered to them in the last elections, and whenever... Read more » Against ‘common sense’: election reflections from a campaigner on migration and asylum, John Grayson As we start to analyse the results of the 2010 election we may be witnessing a reversal in the fortunes of the Far Right BNP in England. Their leader Nick Griffin actually polled nearly 2% less in Barking than the BNP did at the last General... Read more » Too much asked, too much given: the unsustainable position of the BBC, David Graham My penultimate post in this series. Next week I will offer some final thoughts, then write a paper on the future of the BBC for one of our leading think tanks – sorry, policy institutes – to be published in the summer.  What I... Read more » United States at the NPT: how far will the 'good guy' go? , Rebecca Johnson The first week of the Conference to review the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) in New York has been dominated by the US policy agenda. Yet this is a very different Conference from five years ago, when the United States was viewed as a major... Read more » Allawi throws it all away, Mohammed Hussainy A few weeks ago, the Iraqi prime minister, Nouri Maliki, found himself in an awkward situation despite the fact that his State of Law Coalition came in second in the recent parliamentary elections.  Maliki's Coalition fell short of... Read more » No release: lives in limbo, Jerome Phelps Whoever forms the next government will inherit an immigration detention system that is an expensive, inefficient and inhumane mess. They will also inherit proposals to address the problems by simply building more detention centres. Increasing... Read more » Within the hell of war lies a private hell, Laura Carlsen In memory of Bety Cariño Gender justice is an unfamiliar term to most people. Many assume it is merely a feminine (and therefore diminutive) form of justice, created by adding an awkward adjective to an abstract... Read more » Siberian Shamans Come in From the Cold (part 2), Ken Hyder Zoya lit the fire with a cigarette lighter decked out in the Marlboro colours. Alexei the driver sat down, not knowing what to do. Some shamans insist participants hold their hands together in a Buddhist pose of concentration. But Zoya gave no... Read more »