Artwork by Surian Soosay copyright @ssoosay In our networked, hyper-competitive and rapidly changing world, not only is the primacy of traditional state power challenged, both internationally and domestically, but the very nature of that power is in ...
Cover image Peter Pomerantsev, Nothing is True and Everything is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia, 2014 This week ...
George W. Bush and Bono in 2006. Credit: Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain (from Alex De Waal’s article Designer activism and post-democracy). We live in interesting times. Of course, there rarely ever is a truly dull ...
It is Tuesday, time to #see power on my blog. Above is Tony Benn in 1961, in front of the mother of all parliaments, Westminster, the then undisputed seat of British political power. I have chosen this ...
“A post-democratic society is one that continues to have and to use all the institutions of democracy, but in which they increasingly become a formal shell.” Colin Crouch, *1940 ...
To conclude this week on borders, walls and barriers, and the functions they have in our networked world: A must-see documentary on ArteTV about a parallel, hidden world of 17 million people living behind barriers, sometimes for ...
A Ukrainian border post, viewed through bullet holes in a truck’s windscreen. Lugansk, June 2014. (Reuters) Dear all, I apologise for posting this so late – Brexit happened…so today is no longer Thursday, but I am still ...
What do borders actually do, what purpose do they serve? And what is their relationship to power? Michel Lussault and Elisabeth Vallet are trying to answer those questions, each in their different ways. In ...
Map of Israel by Le Monde en Cartes, @LM_enCartes, 13 June 2016 This week on my blog “The nature of power in the 21st century”, I am pondering borders – frontiers, barriers, separations, walls – between ...
Globalisation has made us more vulnerable. It creates a world without borders, and makes us painfully aware of the limitations of our present instruments, and of politics, to meet its challenges. Anna...