''Democratiya'' was a free quarterly online review of books with the aim to "stimulate discussion of radical democratic political theory".
Sixteen editions were produced from 2005 until a final edition in Autumn 2009, after which ''Democratiya'' merged with ''
Dissent
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'' magazine.
''Democratiya''’s founding editor was
Alan Johnson
Alan Arthur Johnson (born 17 May 1950) is a British politician who served as Secretary of State for Education and Skills from 2006 to 2007, Secretary of State for Health from 2007 to 2009, Home Secretary from 2009 to 2010, and Shadow Chancello ...
, a professor in the Department of Social and Psychological Sciences at
Edge Hill University
Edge Hill University is a campus-based public university in Ormskirk, Lancashire, England. The university, which originally opened in 1885 as Edge Hill College, was the first non-denominational teacher training college for women in England, befo ...
in
Lancashire
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,
England
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,
and a co-author of the
Euston Manifesto
The Euston Manifesto ( ) is a 2006 declaration of principles signed by a group of academics, journalists and activists based in the United Kingdom, named after the Euston Road in London where it had its meetings. The statement was a reaction to ...
.
''Democratiya''’s topics ranged over many issues, including those relating to war, human rights, the
United Nations
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, democracy, and the international community.
Books
Alan Johnson edited and wrote the introduction to a 2008 collection, ''Global Politics After 9/11: The Democratiya Interviews'', containing conversations about the dilemmas of progressive foreign policy after 9/11, that had first been published in ''Democratiya''. The collection includes interviews with
Paul Berman
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Paul Lawrence Berman (born 1949) is an American writer on politics and literature.
His books include '' Terror and Liberalism'' ( a ''New York Times'' best-seller in 2003), ''The Flight of the Intellectuals'', ''A Tale of Two Utopias'', ''Power ...
,
Ladan Boroumand,
Jean Bethke Elshtain
Jean Paulette Bethke Elshtain (January 6, 1941 – August 11, 2013) was an American ethicist, political philosopher, and public intellectual. She was the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics in the University of C ...
,
David Held
David Jonathan Andrew Held (27 August 1951 – 2 March 2019) was a British political scientist who specialised in political theory and international relations. He held a joint appointment as Professor of Politics and International Relations, and ...
,
Saad Eddin Ibrahim
Saad Eddin Ibrahim (, ) (31 December 1938 – 29 September 2023) was an Egyptian sociologist and author. He was one of Egypt's leading human rights and democracy activists and a strong critic of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
Biograp ...
,
Mary Kaldor,
Kanan Makiya
Kanan Makiya (born 1949) is an Iraqi-American academic and professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at Brandeis University. He gained international attention with ''Republic of Fear'' (1989), which became a best-selling book after Saddam ...
,
Joshua Muravchik
Joshua Muravchik (born September 17, 1947, in New York City) is a neoconservative political scholar. He resides in Washington, DC based World Affairs Institute, he is also an adjunct professor at the DC based Institute of World Politics (sinc ...
,
Martin Shaw, and
Anne-Marie Slaughter
Anne-Marie Slaughter (born September 27, 1958) is an American international lawyer, foreign policy analyst, political scientist, and public commentator. From 2002 to 2009, she was the dean of Princeton University's School of Public and Intern ...
.
Articles
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References
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External links
''Democratiya'' archives on the ''Dissent'' website
Book review magazines
Quarterly magazines published in the United Kingdom
Defunct literary magazines published in the United Kingdom
Defunct political magazines published in the United Kingdom
Free magazines
Magazines established in 2005
Magazines disestablished in 2009