Martin ShawDavid Hayes, editor, ’9/11, Ten Years On: Reflections, openDemocracy, 7 September 2011 – my contribution: The great interruption The terrorist attacks on the United States on 11 September 2001 had a huge impact on world politics in the following decade, but they did not mark a fundamental change like the 1989-91 upheavals or 2011’s extraordinary [...]
Archive for September, 2011
openDemocracy, 5 September 2011 Libya: the revolution-intervention dynamic The overthrow of the Muammar Gaddafi regime in Libya – messy and incomplete though it remains – represents a striking success for the Arab revolt which began only in December 2010. While the movements in Tunisia and Egypt achieved regime change through peaceful protest, that in Libya [...]
