Democracy

Madeleine Bunting explores the loss of God as a defining feature of Western democracy.

David Loyn talks to Hekmat Karzai, Afghan political analyst and cousin of the president.

Is al-Qaeda the real beneficiary of the multiple failures of the Arab revolutions?

150 years on, James Naughtie examines the relevance of the Gettysburg Address for today.

Roberto Unger explains why he thinks fellow left-of-centre progressives lack imagination.

Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood won at the polls but failed to keep power. What went wrong?

Anne McElvoy explores how mass democracy split conservatism into moderates and militants.

Two farmer’s daughters in Burma object to the expansion of a Chinese backed copper mine.

What threat does a growing fundamentalist branch of Islam pose to Arab Spring countries?

Nina Robinson explores newfound cultural freedoms in Libya's second city Benghazi.

Edward Stourton explores the prospects for post-revolution government in the Arab world.

A year after the fall of President Mubarak of Egypt, what happened to the revolution?

Profile of Rachid Ghannouchi, one of the world's most influential Islamist thinkers.

The virtues and flaws of democracy.

Assessing the role of security and intelligence services in a democracy.

Edward Stourton asks if the Egyptian revolution spells the end of old-style Islamism.

Sue Lloyd-Roberts investigates whether the election in Burma offers any chance of change.

Justin Rowlatt asks if democracies are incapable of tackling climate change.

Assignment hears harrowing eye-witness accounts of a massacre in Guinea.

Dr Mukulika Banerjee learns about the processes involved in an Indian general election.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aristotle’s ‘Politics’.

Nick Clarke's widow Barbara Want investigates how we as a society deal with bereavement.

In Papua, a new radio station is being installed as part of Indonesia's 68H network