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global politicsWar, globalisation, nationalism, revolution: Fred Halliday illuminates the forces shaping 21st-century world politics
What does Russia want; how should Nato and the EU respond? An ex-ambassador to Moscow looks ahead Plus: time to get real, says Charles Grant
A crisis in world finance is opportunity to retrieve the work of two pioneering thinkers
After the recent Valdai Club meeting with Russian leaders, Charles Grant fears any attempt to push Russia towards a liberal democracy would be counter-productive. What the West can and should do is influence Russia's behaviour on the international stage.
The autonomy of local agents in a nationalist grip is a neglected element of international politics
Europe's capacious multinational initiative has rhetorical glitter but not enough political gold
What the United States and Israel do in the next four months will shape the middle east's future for four years and more
The celebration of a year of protest misses its silences and failures - and thus its true impact
Why do some countries achieve independence and not others? Blame "post-colonial sequestration syndrome"
Mai Ghoussoub and Parvin Paidar's humane, life-affirming example is missed and needed
The rise of "sovereign wealth funds" signals the end of the neo-liberal model. It's time for a coherent and long-term policy in response
Havana's official dialogues and critical whispers reveal the revolution's flaws (archive)
The recurrent political and media spasms over “sharia" or“Islamic law” too often avoid looking at the reality the terms purportto describe
Benazir Bhutto’s political life and death belongs to a wider pattern
The Atocha massacre
trial leaves many questions unanswered
The Basque country's political conflict remains unresolved after four decades
Britain needs fresh thinking about national security. A key decision by its new prime minister closes the door to it
The killing of seven Spanish tourists has propelled Yemen into the media spotlight, but its political history deserves attention on its own account
A triple eruption is the culmination of long-term shifts in the middle-east power-balance
The Iraq war’s reverberations will be as profound for the region’s future as were two epic dates in its past
The unnecessary conflict in the south Atlantic in 1982 between Britain and Argentina helped sow the seeds of more momentous and destructive wars, says Fred Halliday. Read the rest of this post...
The historic deal between the hardline representatives of Northern Ireland's two political blocs is an occasion to banish global sentimentalism about Ireland, says Fred Halliday. Read the rest of this post...
Al-Jazeera's achievement is to have become at once global brand, Arab window on the world, and challenge to western perspectives on the "war on terror". Fred Halliday, in his fiftieth openDemocracy column, visits the Qatar-based broadcaster. Read the rest of this post...
The key to understanding Iran's contemporary role in the middle east is less its millennia of statehood or its Shi'a identity than its political dynamic as a revolutionary state, says Fred Halliday. Read the rest of this post...
The tensions between Islam's two major traditions are rooted more in current geopolitics than in differences of faith, says Fred Halliday. Read the rest of this post...
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