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Latest articles from openDemocracy... Our European incapacity, Etienne Balibar If we are to articulate a ‘politics of hope’ in contemporary Europe, then we must revisit such problematic concepts as ‘populism’, ‘democracy’ and ‘Europe’, formulating a new language that can register the fact that the... Read more » The undesirables of the world and how universality changed camp, Michel Agier Within the space of a few years, Europe has gone from an 85% acceptance rate for asylum seekers in the 90’s to an 85% rejection rate by the end of the 2000’s. After the Second World War and its 30 million deportations, the United... Read more » Xenophobic Europe, Ash Amin Our guest editor introduced his special feature on the ‘Uses of Xenophobia’, on Europe Day. Here, he maps the new relevance of an open and shared commons to a continent that is once again meeting economic, political and cultural... Read more » Crisis - what crisis? , Albena Azmanova Why is widespread social anxiety fuelling xenophobia rather than criticism of neoliberal capitalism? What role has the state played? Have we arrived at the paradoxical situation where the best we can do is to call on the state to do its job?... Read more »
The politics of fear, Joan Subirats Fear of responding to a politics of fear is a critical aspect of the present weakness in the situation in which Europeans find themselves. During the last round of elections in Spain, and in other parts of Europe, it became clear that... Read more » East European Geographobia, Bashkim Shehu There are particularities of fear in a post-communist Europe bewildered by the demands of neoliberalism, which also tap into a legacy of aversion matured during Communism. One of the characteristics by which post-communist Europe, (also... Read more » Old and new demagoguery: the rhetoric of exclusion, Ruth Wodak Right-wing populist parties tend to be anti-multinational and anti-intellectual: they endorse nationalistic, nativist, and chauvinistic beliefs, embedded - explicitly or coded - in common sense appeals to a presupposed shared knowledge of... Read more » Russia: an opinion-poll democracy, Alexei Levinson On the eve of Presidential elections, Dmitry Medvedev has sprung to life and inserted political distance between himself and Putin. Polls show Russians would like both leaders to stand for election, and to choose between them, but such a... Read more » More Recent Articles The emotions of Britishness and being English, a response to David Mitchell, Gareth Young Green policy in Colombia. Quixotic or corrupt?, Oliver Harvey A story of moral abandon, Celia Mckeon and Diana Francis oD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of May 16th 2010, Charles Shaw and Mark Weiss A Beginner’s Guide to Scottish Independence and Britain, Gerry Hassan Liberalism: The road from serfdom. A conversation with Dominico Losurdo, Tony Curzon Price and Dominico Losurdo Unique Britain, Danny Dorling Gleb Pavlovsky: the final act, Ivan Krastev and Tatiana Zhurzhenko Bin laden ‘revenge’ suicide bombing kills 80 in Pakistan, , Oliver Scanlan Scotland's opportunity is about more than 'independence', Cailean Gallagher