Matthias Küntzel is a political scientist based in Hamburg, Germany. From 1984 to 1988 he was a senior advisor to the Federal Parliamentary Fraction of Germany’s Green Party and is the author of Bonn and the Bomb: German Politics and …
Telos Editor Russell Berman argues that the modern university is currently threatened by a set of transformations and pressures inimical to liberal intellectual culture. While this slide into repression has multiple causes, prominent among them is one legacy of the …
The issue features four important contributions to the debate about the crisis of the western liberal-left. In a passionate, clear-sighted and wide-ranging survey of ‘a liberal left that exhibits a radical over-sensitivity to the crimes and injustices of western governments, …
Gina Khan is a British Muslim woman who lives in Birmingham’s Ward End, an area in which men were recently convicted of a plot to kidnap and kill a British Muslim soldier. In this interview she sets her story of …
Joshua Muravchik is a resident scholar at The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and the author of Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism (Encounter, 2002). He has written extensively about democracy, human rights, and American foreign policy in …
Professor Mary Kaldor is Director of the Centre for the Study of Global Governance at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is a founding member of European Nuclear Disarmament and founder and Co-Chair of the Helsinki Citizens …
In a wide-ranging interview Mary Kaldor argues that peace and human rights are the twin foundations of a progressive foreign policy. She maps the terrain of contemporary politics: as she sees it, a global mismatch between the ‘militarised unilateralist character …
Three pieces in this issue of Democratiya confront the American left’s difficult relationship to patriotism. Todd Gitlin reviews What They Think of Us: International Perceptions of the United States Since 9/11, a collection edited by David Farber. Anne-Marie Slaughter explores …
Anne-Marie Slaughter is Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and serves on the board of the Council on Foreign Relations. Her recent …
‘My anti-Americanism has become almost uncontrollable. It has possessed me, like a disease,’ wailed the British novelist Margaret Drabble in 2003. Jean Baudrillard, the late French postmodernist philosopher, writing in Le Monde, also settled on the image of possession to …
Ladan Boroumand is the research director at The Abdorrahman Boroumand Foundation for the Promotion of Human Rights and Democracy in Iran. A former visiting fellow at the International Forum for Democratic Studies, she studied history at Ecole des Hautes Etudes …
Saad Eddin Ibrahim is Professor of Political Sociology at the American University in Cairo. He founded the Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies and is one of the Arab world’s most prominent spokesmen for democracy and human rights. Author, co-author, or editor of …
Ladan Boroumand reviews Danny Postel’s Reading Legitimation Crisis in Tehran. Inspired by Azar Nafisi’s Reading Lolita in Tehran, Postel reveals the fructifying relationship that has been forged between the classic texts of liberal democracy and democratic resistance to the Mullahs. …
Issue 7 of Democratiya is dominated by writing about the State of Israel, the threat of terrorism, and the future of progressive internationalism. Before 1948 there were 800,000 Jews living in Arab countries, today there are perhaps 8,000. Rayyan Al-Shawaf …
David Held is Graham Wallas Professor of Political Science at the London School of Economics and co-director of the Centre for the Study of Global Governance. His recent writings have been concerned to understand the dynamics of globalisation and to …
