Democratiya Book Launch

Global Politics After 9/11:
The Democratiya Interviews
Edited by Alan Johnson, Preface by Michael Walzer
published by Foreign Policy Centre / Democratiya

Monday 21 April, 6pm, Committee Room 3a, The Palace of Westminster

A discussion on the future of progressive foreign policy to launch Global Politics After 9/11: The Democratiya Interviews.

Speakers

Charlie Falconer (Chair)
Alan Johnson (Democratiya.com, Editor of Global Politics After 9/11)
Denis Macshane MP (Labour Foreign Office Minister 2001-2005)
Michael Moore MP (Liberal Democrat Spokesman for International Development, tbc)
John Lloyd (Financial Times and Reuters Institute, Oxford )
Andrew Mitchell MP (Shadow Secretary of State for International Development)
Ladan Boroumand (Research Director, The Abdorrahman Boroumand Foundation for the promotion of human rights and democracy in Iran).

There will be a question and answer period. Copies of Global Politics After 9/11: The Democratiya Interviews will be available at a specially reduced price of 7.99.

RSVP is to Julie Utting Julie.Utting@JohnSmithTrust.org All press enquiries, and questions aside from RSVP related to the launch to Alan Johnson Alanjohnsonlfiq@aol.com. Places are strictly limited and will be allocated on a first to reply basis. Please give yourself time to get through security at Parliament.

Sponsors: The Foreign Policy Centre, The John Smith Memorial Trust, Democratiya.com, The Henry Jackson Society, Labour Friends of Iraq, Progress, Engage.

ABOUT Global Politics After 9/11: The Democratiya Interviews

Collects in-depth conversations with Paul Berman, Ladan Boroumand, Jean Bethke Elshtain, David Held, Saad Eddin Ibrahim, Mary Kaldor, Kanan Makiya, Joshua Muravchik, Martin Shaw, Anne-Marie Slaughter

Explores some of the central dilemmas of democratic foreign policy after 9/11 – What are the root causes of terrorism? What is the appeal of Jihadist ideology and how can democrats win the battle of ideas? Why are so many progressives content to say 'my enemy’s enemy is my friend'? How can democracy-promotion, humanitarian intervention and the responsibility to protect be rescued after Iraq? Should we be fighting a ‘war on terror’? Deploying 'smart power' sounds good, but what does it mean? Can the UN be reformed? Do we need a new ‘concert of democracies’?

Carl Gershman, President of the National Endowment of Democracy, has said ‘The Democratiya Interviews do more to re-establish and invigorate a coherent concept of democratic internationalism than any single volume in recent memory. This book is both a breath of fresh air and an act of democratic solidarity.’

For Nick Cohen, author of the best-seller What’s Left?, ‘The principles Democratiya develops with such flair are the best route out of the swamp in which too many liberal-minded people have been stuck for too long.’

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