Archives: Writings

I worked in government for years – now I’m an anarchist

Ten Steps to Anarchism

The most feminist revolution the world has ever witnessed

Can the Left reclaim Nationalism?

Chilcot Report: How Tony Blair Sold the War

The UN is failing. Is it heading the same way as the League of Nations?

Power to the People: Rojava, anarchism and Murray Bookchin: Financial Times, 24 Oct ‘2015

The Kurds’ Democratic Experiment: my oped in The New York Times

The privilege and nightmare of contemplating the future: My LongPlayer letter to John Burnside

Independence Referendums for Everyone

Iraq exposes the west’s hypocrisy in the Middle East

Beyond Obama’s West Point speech: a foreign puzzle, not a real foreign policy

“Government is no longer the solution”, my contribution to a “Guide to Political Studies”

Citizens of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your data!

Transcript and Materials for my discussion at the Carnegie Council

Syria: a new non-violent paradigm for intervention

The Western Sahara: forgotten first source of the Arab Spring

Five Conditions for Successful Mediation (jnc in book of essays)

5 kinds of access for successful mediation (essay by CR)

A Gentle Anarchism: My talk at the Business Innovation Factory

Popper on the requirement for government to minimize suffering (my letter to FT)

I was there: UN Security Council (short article on ID’s work at the UN for South Sudan)

No Way Out (Review by CR and Ardian Arifaj of “The Forgiveness of Blood”)

The Leaderless Revolution: transcript of talk/discussion at Carnegie Council

Time for States to give way to People Power (CR opinion on the UN)

The New Politics for a Disorderly World

Revolution through Banking

A Manifesto for Better Banking

The Leaderless Revolution: Video and Podcast of Carne’s talk at the London School of Economics

When Government is Broken

Somalia: victim of war, famine and a pestilence of policy

The internet’s private enterprise

Greece’s Crisis, Europe’s Nemesis – “Power and Nations” column in The Guardian

What we can do to bring down dictators

Basel III: Business as Usual for Bankers

Middle East: All Process, No Peace – my “Power & Nations” column in The Guardian

Let’s call Russia’s bluff on Syria – inaugural piece for a series “Power and Nations”

What the FCO can learn from the State Department

Let’s boycott, isolate and sabotage Gaddafi (reqs subscription)

10 Non-violent options on Libya

Libya – Eight Non-military options

The UN’s duty to the Libyans

Curveball and the manufacture of a lie

The Demonstrable Benefits of Deliberative Democracy (Letter)

Uncomfortable Lessons from the Reaction to WikiLeaks

Why Arlen Specter is an Anarchist

Will Obama solve the Middle East all at once?

US Drone Strikes and Civilian Casualties: “It’s not moral”

The New Power Dispensation at the UN Security Council

Hostage Diplomacy

A Brave Woman pays the Price for a Misinterpreted Interview

Fleeing the Volcano

The Meaning of WikiLeaks for Diplomacy

WikiLeaks: We need more transparency

How Wikileaks changes things for all of us

The End of Diplomacy as We Know It

The End of Diplomacy as We Know It

US Policy and Western Sahara: The Other Side

The country needs the Iraq inquiry. What a shame it will be a whitewash.

It’s Time to Scrap Ambassadors and their Embassies

Once and Future State

People’s Wishes Cannot be Traded Away

United Nations in Trouble: Time for Another San Francisco

New World Orders?

Decline and Fall

Hero of Our Time

Diplomacy

Secrets, Lies and Diplomats

Music in the Security Council

Only the Closest Encounter with the Facts Will Do Now

In the Matrix You Mess Up Foreign Policy

The United Nations and Genocide

Proof that Violence Will Highlight a Cause

We must hear the unheard for a more stable world

Could Sanctions Stop Iran?

How to be Ignored: Depressing Lessons in Realpolitik from the Western Sahara

Nation Creation: Kosovo’s Rocky Road to Independence

Stir of Echoes

War Stories (note – the first article I wrote after resigning from the Foreign Office)