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

Published On 29 Oct 2014
Video Duration 16 minutes 15 seconds

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

Published On 27 Oct 2014
Video Duration 47 minutes 51 seconds

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

Published On 26 Oct 2014

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

Published On 5 Oct 2014
Video Duration 48 minutes 09 seconds

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

Published On 5 Oct 2014
Video Duration 07 minutes 46 seconds

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

Published On 5 Oct 2014
Video Duration 00 minutes 55 seconds

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

Published On 5 Oct 2014
Video Duration 04 minutes 30 seconds

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

Published On 1 Oct 2014
Video Duration 47 minutes 33 seconds

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

Published On 7 Aug 2014
Video Duration 04 minutes 18 seconds