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We have broken the silence: Fresh from Madrid, a member of the Communications team of the 15 May Movement , Anthony Barnett and Beatriz Pérez This interview with Beatriz Pérez took place in the early morning of Thursday 26 May in English with additions from an interview she gave to radio Una linea sobre el mar (thanks to simultaneous translation by Mayte Carrasco). It was checked... Read more » Turkey as a model of democracy and Islam, Sami Zubaida Democracies are about more than elections and majorities: they require genuine separation of powers, autonomous institutions and associations, all regulated by the rule of law. The current Turkish situation is the product of social and... Read more » Ready, set, crawl!, Jaffar Al-Rikabi Despite protests and intense political pressure on Prime Minister Maliki’s coalition government, reforms in Iraq are likely to be slow, sporadic and contradictory. Meaningful reform is undermined by a political system that fosters... Read more » Beyond the comfort zone?: Reactions to The Skinback Fusiliers , Unknown Soldier After the serialisation of the novel, The Skinback Fusiliers, the author looks back on the reactions provoked by his brutal account of life as a British squaddie I was well aware when openDemocracy started to serialise Read more » A very Georgian disagreement, Sergei Markedonov Post-Soviet Georgia is no stranger to drama or revolution, and after a short interregnum, the country once again finds itself in a febrile mood. Sergei Markedonov analyses the background to the present unrest. The... Read more » • Email to a friend • Article Search • Ratko Mladić's arrest: a start, but let it not obscure how much more is needed for justice, Sadzida Tulic and Heather McRobie Poisonous ethno-nationalist political rhetoric, genocide denial and the celebration of war-time leaders are still routinely permitted in the discourse of Bosnian politicians, the media and citizens – if ‘citizens’ is the right word to... Read more » Bosnia: what course after the storm?, Wolfgang Petritsch and Christophe Solioz Between the advocates of interventionism, who think that only action from the international community can prevent Bosnia’s implosion, and those who, on the contrary, deem Bosnians to be the only ones who should be responsible for their... Read more » More Recent Articles Ahmadinejad’s Messianism, Afshin Shahi Can we help our friends in the South? A Scotsman asks his compatriots to be generous , Gerry Hassan Some kind of revolution, Ryan Gallagher America's National Public Radio turns 40: BBC take note, David Elstein Skinback Fusiliers, Episode Ten, Unknown Soldier Iran: an elite at war, Nasrin Alavi Burma: demographics of disciplined democracy, David Scott Mathieson Russia’s queer democratisation, Augusto Come Georgia comes down violently on pro-democracy protest. A first hand account, Ian F. Carver Sycophantic Kingdom: Cameron and company creep to Obama, Peter Oborne