Empire

Was it 9/11 or the West’s re­sponse that threat­ened the utopia of lib­er­al democ­ra­cy? S. Zizek and Hamid Dabashi dis­cuss.

Em­pire asks if the glob­al fight against ter­ror­ism is erod­ing the de­mo­c­ra­t­ic prin­ci­ples it set out to de­fend.

Em­pire asks its guests if the glob­al fight against ter­ror­ism is erod­ing the de­mo­c­ra­t­ic prin­ci­ples it set out to de­fend.

Twen­ty-five years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, why is Eu­ro­pean democ­ra­cy in flux?

Philoso­pher Tzve­tan Todor­ov warns that democ­ra­cy is threat­ened by an en­e­my with­in.

Fol­low­ing a jour­ney through Eu­rope, Mar­wan Bishara shares his ob­ser­va­tions about lib­er­al democ­ra­cy.

Philoso­pher Slavoj Zizek shares his thoughts on the caus­es of democ­ra­cy’s re­treat in Eu­rope and the US.

We ex­am­ine the dom­i­nance of the US en­ter­tain­ment in­dus­try and its pow­er to shape per­cep­tions about cul­ture and so­ci­ety.

Twen­ty-five years af­ter the fall of the Berlin Wall, we ask our guests, is ne­olib­er­al­ism un­der­min­ing Eu­ro­pean democ­ra­cy?

Mar­wan Bishara and Philippe Ley­marie dis­cuss France’s in­flu­ence on the African con­ti­nent.