As the Security Council met to debate women, peace and security and 10 years of progress in implementing SCR 1325, about a hundred women in white T-shirts inscribed with the words “Put Peace Women at Peace Tables: Implement 1325 Women Peace and... Question Time is the BBC’s flagship UK political programme, or at least once was. Now with populist current affairs programmes such as ‘The Week in Politics’ and ‘The Daily Politics’ we are dealing with a crowded marketplace. Question Time... The phrase ‘what is your alternative?’ is often heard in response to criticisms of the liberal peace. This is like saying,‘resistance is futile’. The liberal peacebuilding and statebuilding framework is regarded as the highest achievement of... International security is increasingly deemed to depend on western strategies of intervention in various failed, failing and fragile states. Such conditions are bad for the people in these states: but the main reason for western interest is that... Barely noticed by most media outlets, top corporations are finding ways to assert their control over policies nominally designed to serve public interests. Unglamorous trade talks between the European Union and Canada offer a prime example of the... In his article «Rivalry for Moscow», published on 1 September in Moskovsky Komsomolets, the little-known author Yuri Kovelitsin suggested two criteria for judging whether President Medvedev had betrayed his spiritual father Vladimir Putin. The... Patrick Dunleavy reviews a fascinating, but flawed, history of democratic thinking from an American perspective. It throws often unexpected light on democratic innovations through the ages; and if the government’s project to slice the UK... Dan Hind You are invited to join Charles Shaw, openDemocracy author and activist and acclaimed documentary maker and criminologist, Roger Graef for an evening of discussion and testimony of drugs policy and criminal justice on: 7pm, Tuesday 16 November 2010 The Hub, 34b York Way, Kings Cross, London, N1 9AB Limited number of places: please email info@opendemocracy.net to reserve a place. What is it that maintains our mixed up and contradictory drugs policies – often in the face of expert consensus? What is the balance of damage being done to individuals by drugs and the system of punishing drug taking? What should our social and personal attitudes towards different drugs be if there were fuller decriminalisation? And why are attitudes to alcohol and tobacco so different? Read more on Charles Shaw's projects The openDemocracy Drug Policy Forum www.opendemocracy.net 
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Saturday, 30 October 2010
Civil society diplomats at the UN, Lyric Thompson
Nation to Nation: The Problem of Speaking for Britain, Gerry Hassan
What is your alternative?, Oliver P Richmond
From liberal to popular peace?, David Roberts
Giving in to corporate pressure?, David Cronin
Khodorkovsky trial: a test for the president, Mikhail Zygar
Book review: Numbers Rule: The Vexing Mathematics of Democracy, from Plato to the Present, Patrick Dunleavy
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