2010
‘Flouting International Law: International pressure on Serbia not to start a new debate about the status of Kosovo and the possible diplomatic strategy of Serbia after the ICJ decision’ (interview in Serbian), NIN (Belgrade), 1 July 2010.
Comments in Rebecca Attwood and Sarah Cunnane, ‘#loveHE: A big step into the grown-up world’, Times Higher Education Supplement, 11 March 2010, pp.34-41.
'No Communicating Left' (review article), Radical Philosophy, No. 160 (March/April 2010), pp.53-55. ISSN 0300 211X
'Fragile States and the International Community', panel discussion from Chatham House conference 'Fragile States and the International Community', for BBC Radio 4, The World Tonight programme, with Robin Lustig, Francesc Vendrell, former UN and EU Special Representative in Afghanistan and Ginny Hill who runs the Yemen Forum at Chatham House. BBC Radio 4, The World Tonight, 22 February 2010. (audio file here).
2009
'"Good Governance" and the Limits to Statebuilding in Bosnia', World Politics Review, Features section: 'The Practices and Policies of Nationbuilding', 8 December 2009.
'Crisis - What Crisis? Launching What is Radical Politics Today', panel discussion with Doreen Massey and Saskia Sassen, hosted by the British Council, 25 November 2009. All audio and video material available from Counterpoint here.
'What is Radical Politics Today', interview with Catherine Fieschi, Director of Counterpoint (the think tank of the British Council), 25 November 2009. All audio and video material available from Counterpoint here.
'Radovan Karadzic and War Crimes', expert witness, Moral Maze, BBC Radio 4, 28 October 2009 (repeated 31 October 2009).
Comments in Nick Collins, 'Karadzic appeals for trial delay', The Telegraph, 30 September 2009.
'Conflito Ético: Escândalo britânico reabre a polêmica sobre os parâmetros morais das relações entre países', interview in O Globo (Brazil daily), 13 September 2009.
'The Politics of the Environment and the 'Radicalisation' of State Institutions', Radical Politics Today, May 2009.
‘This matters greatly to our public opinion’, Spiked-Online, 6 April 2009.
Widespread opposition to a proposed Afghan law is less about liberating women than shoring up Western authority.
‘Blaming Karzai for the West’s failures’, Spiked-Online, 25 March 2009. It is not the Afghan PM’s corruption that has wrecked Afghanistan, but the disarray of the invading powers.
'Between the Headlines', Press TV, 16 January 2009. Discussion on major newspaper's headlines with Alyssa McDonald, New Statesman, and Joseph Harker, Guardian.
‘Bosnian War Crimes Chamber may fail to encourage postwar reconciliation’, Jurist, 12 January 2009.
2008
Comments in Simon Jennings, 'Pocar: Extension to Tribunal Mandate Likely', Institute for War and Peace Reporting, 18 November 2008.
'Bosnian Powder Keg?', BBC World Service, 22 October 2008. Response to Paddy Ashdown and Richard Holbrooke piece in that day's Guardian newspaper (view article).
‘British forces: a token army of occupation’, Spiked-Online, 14 October 2008. The Iraqi PM’s attack on Britain’s lack of commitment in Basra has shot a hole in the government’s ‘Iraq Story’.
'The "Bosnian model" is no model for Georgia', Spiked-Online, 15 September 2008. Turning sections of the Caucasus into international protectorates will not deliver anything like democracy.
'Georgia: Russia’s first "Western-style" war', Spiked-Online, 28 August 2008. Far from the Russian Bear reasserting its Great Power, its foreign policy, like Britain and America’s, is uncertain and erratic.
'"Svet" ne može da se nadoknadi globalizacijom', Plave Strane, Danas (Belgrade), 12-13 July 2008. Kostas Duzinas i Dejvid Čendler o "svetskoj vlasti", EU, Balkanu, vanzemaljcima.
‘G8 summit: a global displacement activity’, Spiked-Online, 8 July 2008. Western governments’ desire to globalise big issues - from poverty to climate change - is an attempt to escape real responsibility for policymaking.
Comments in Michał Potocki, 'Serbia o krok od Europy', Dziennik (Poland), 13 May.
'Turkey's Relations with the Balkans', interviews with TRT 1 (Turkish State Television), Zaman Newspaper (Istanbul), Bulgarian National Television and MillîGazete (Istanbul), Tekirdağ, Turkey, 24 April 2008.
'Humanising Haditha', Spiked-Online, 18 March 2008. By showing all sides as victims of war, Nick Broomfield’s Battle for Haditha can only find ‘common humanity’ in our ability to suffer.
'IA Forum Interview: Professor David Chandler', International Affairs Forum, Centre for International Relations, Washington D.C., 17 March 2008. IA-Forum speaks with Professor Chandler about Western interventions in the name of democracy promotion. By Katharine Slocombe.
'What's Next for Kosovo and Serbia?', studio interview (view programme), CNN, 22 February 2008.
'After the Serbian elections', studio interview (view programme), Four Corners, Press TV, 4 February 2008.
'After the Serbian elections', interview with Radio Netherlands Worldwide, 4 February 2008. Interview comments in Perro de Jong, 'Serbs vote for Europe', Radio Netherlands Worldwide, 4 February 2008.
'Why Karzai was right to reject Ashdown', Spiked-Online, 29 January 2008. He relished his role as colonial overlord in Bosnia, so it's not surprising the Afghans don’t want Paternalistic Paddy anywhere near their country.
‘Avrupa Birliği Ulus İnşaasi: Liberal Barişi Ab Genişlemesiyle Güven Altina Alma’, Stratejik Öngörü Dergisi (Journal of Strategic Insight), TASAM (Turkish Asian Centre for Strategic Studies), Vol. 5, No. 12, 2008, pp.13-20. ISSN 1304-768S
'Keeping humanity secure?', Spiked Review of Books, Issue No.9, January 2008. The new focus on ‘human security’ in the debate about international relations suggests there should be an even more meddlesome form of policing of other states’ affairs. No thanks.
'Is the UN a Waste of Time?', panel debate, hosted by Andrew Gilligan (view programme), with Hazel Smith, programme advisor to the UN World Food Programme (North Korea) and professor in international relations at Warwick University and Sarah Lesniewski, senior project officer for the Women's Budget Group and member of the Fawcett Society. Forum, Press TV, 20 January 2008.
'Kosovo’s Declaration of Dependence', Spiked-Online, 15 January 2008. Hashim Thaci, one-time guerrilla turned PM of Kosovo, has promised to break away from Serbia. It's independence, Jim, but not as we know it.
'Britain’s key weapon in Afghanistan: the bribe', Spiked-Online, 3 January 2008.
In allegedly trying to buy off a local Taliban leader, British officials have shown a haughty and colonial disregard for the Afghan government.
2007
'Britain's theatrical war against the Taliban', Spiked-Online, 11 December 2007. British troops are not fighting the 'good fight' in Afghanistan; they are hiding behind US airpower and taking towns from weak forces.
'Warum hasst Gordon Brown Politik?', Novo Magazin, No.91/92 (Nov 2007 - Feb 2008), pp.18-19. David Chandler über den Skeptizismus der Politiker bezüglich politischer Veränderungen.
'The high representative for Bosnia still runs it like a feudal fiefdom', Guardian, 20 November 2007. Bosnia's political crisis is the result of EU intervention, not action by Russia or the Serbs, says David Chandler. (Guardian Letters - responses from Frane Maroevic, Director of communications, Office of the high representative and EU special representative, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Professor Martin Shaw,
University of Sussex can be found here).
'Представитель ЕС до сих пор правит Боснией, словно собственным княжеством', (
The Guardian, Великобритания). Политический кризис в Боснии - результат не действий России или Сербии, а вмешательства ЕС. Дэвид Чандлер (David Chandler), 20 ноября 2007.
'What about democracy for Bosnia?', Spiked-Online, 6 November 2007. Western commentators fret about dictatorships in Burma and Pakistan yet turn a blind eye to the EU's colonial rule in 'over-emotional' Bosnia.
'The Bosnian Crisis', interview with Audrey Carville, Europe Today, BBC World Service, 2 November 2007.
'Brown gives a whole new meaning to "liberty"', Spiked-Online, 29 October 2007. The British PM treats freedom as a stuffy British tradition, through which he might 'connect' with an atomised public. Thomas Jefferson he ain't.
'Chandler: Umjesto da izvozi demokratiju, EU izvozi birokratiju', Bosnia-Herzegovina Federal News Agency, 28 October 2007.
'EU izvozi birokratiju', Bosnia-Herzegovina Federal News Agency, 28 October 2007.
Comments in Ceri Dingle, 'Africa Strand', Battle in Print, in association with the Battle of Ideas, London, 27-28 October 2007.
'What Future for Britain's "Ethical" Foreign Policy?' Debate with Alan Mendoza, Battle in Print, in association with the Battle of Ideas, London, 27-28 October 2007.
'Worldview: The Petraeus Report', (view programme) Alan Mendoza of The Henry Jackson Society is joined by Prof. David Chandler of the Centre for the Study of Democracy at the University of Westminster, Paul Smyth, head of the Aerospace and Information Studies Programme at the RUSI, and James Denselow of the Council for Arab-British Understanding. Following the findings of the Petraeus Report, released last week, Alan and guests discuss whether this is just a case of "plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose" and ask what it will mean for the strategy in Iraq. Worldview, 18 Doughty Street TV, 20 September 2007.
'France is now more gung-ho than America', Spiked-Online, 18 September 2007.
As he threatens war on Iran, French foreign minister Bernard Kouchner is living up to spiked’s warning that he is ‘the most dangerous man in Europe’.
Comments in Branka Trivić, 'Strains Tell within Europe over Kosovo', BIRN (Balkans Investigative Reporting Network), 12 September 2007.
'Reviving the idea of the "good war"', Spiked-Online, 12 September 2007.
The French and British governments are cynically using and abusing the situation in Kosovo to try to resurrect support for liberal imperialism.
'Rizici unilateralnog priznanja', interview with Branka Trivić, Radio Free Europe, 23 August 2007. David Chandler, profesor međunarodnih odnosa na londonskom Westminster univerzitetu ističe u intervjuu za Radio Slobodna Evropa da bi uniltarelano priznanje nezavisnosti Kosova izazvalo podele u regionu. U intervjuu koji sledi Chandler najpre odgovara na pitanje kako bi Evropska unija reagovala ako bi došlo do unilateralnog priznanja Kosova.
'Why does Gordon Brown hate politics?', Spiked-Online, 13 August 2007.
A new book suggests that it is politicians' own low horizons and scepticism about political change that leads to apathy amongst the masses.
'David Cameron’s Rwandan distraction', Spiked-Online, 25 July 2007.
Why the Tory leader prefers to pontificate about poverty 4,000 miles away rather than tackle problems in his constituency: washed-out Witney.
'The White Liberal Democrat's Burden', Spiked-Online, 28 June 2007. Paddy Ashdown may have been a failed politician in Britain, but the former Lord of Bosnia now fancies himself as a free-floating colonialist who can fix the world's problems.
'Politics as Religion', CSD Bulletin, Vol.14, No.s 1 & 2, (Summer 2007), pp.23-25.
'The Death of Foreign Policy', Spiked-Online, 13 June 2007. What will foreign policy be like under Gordon Brown, or David Cameron? Similar to what it was like under Blair: a desperate search for purpose overseas.
'International Tribunals: Not fit for purpose', Spiked-Online, 6 June 2007. Former Liberian president Charles Taylor refused to turn up to his trial in The Hague this week, claiming the court was a sham. He has a point.
'Olympic Boycott? Will the US Boycott the Olympics ?', Asia2025.net, 2 June 2007. Transcript available.
‘Serbia and Europe: who’s ruling who?', Spiked-Online, 16 May 2007. Many are shocked that Serbia has been made president of the Council of Europe, yet they turn a blind eye to the EU’s blackmail of elected Serb politicians.
'The Attraction of Post-Territorial Politics: Ethics and Activism in the International Sphere' (The Inaugural Lecture of Professor David Chandler, University of Westminster, 2 May 2007)
'What next: Eco-imperialism?', Spiked-Online, 19 April 2007. The British government is making dubious links between climate change and conflict in an attempt to boost its moral authority in global affairs.
'Empire in Denial: From Bosnia to Iraq', Conflict IN FOCUS, Regional Centre on Conflict Prevention, Jordanian Institute of Diplomacy, Issue 18, April 2007, pp.2-4.
'All “quiet” on the Middle Eastern front’, Spiked-Online, 27 March 2007. Britain has been loudly demonising Iran for months. Why has it quietened down now that the Iranians have seized 15 British troops?
‘Zimbabwe: Talking up a Revolution’, Spiked-Online, 22 March 2007. Western governments are using the myth of a strong internal opposition to Mugabe's regime to conceal their own weakness.
‘Experts + Opinions: David Chandler’, interview with Will Parkhouse, Total:Spec magazine, issue 18, March 2007, pp.30-33. (text only)
‘Kosovo gains independence – again?’, Spiked-Online, 6 February 2007. Under the guise of granting sovereignty, the UN is dumping responsibility for its mess in Kosovo on to the European Union.
Comments in Bruno Waterfield, ‘EU plans far-reaching “genocide denial” law’, Daily Telegraph, 2 February 2007.
'Forcing Africans to “adapt” to poverty’, Spiked-Online, 1 February 2007. By blaming climate change for Africa's problems, green groups have become apologists for inequality and underdevelopment.
2006
‘Moral-Poker im Mittleren Osten’, Novo Magazin, No.85, pp.40-41, November/December 2006. Die Hasenfüßigkeit europäischer Nahostpolitik zeigt, dass die Verfechter westlicher Einmischungspolitik den Glauben an sich selbst verloren haben.
‘Beyond the “Axis of Evil”: New Threats to International Security’, studio discussion with Alan Mendoza, Worldview, 18 Doughty Street Talk TV, 21 November 2006. View programme here.
‘Narcystyczne gry Unii Europejskiej’ interview with Dariusz Rosiak, Rzeczpospolita, Warsaw, 16 November 2006.
‘Setting the Poles apart: EU and CIA Rendition Flights’, Spiked-Online, 13 November 2006. What does the European Union do when accused of collaborating with the CIA on human rights abuses? Blame Poland.
Nezavisnost Kosovu neće doneti više autonomije’, interview with Branka Trivić, Radio Free Europe, 9 November 2006.
‘Bosna: čija je, u stvari, to država?’, PulsDemocratije, Sarajevo, 3 November 2006. Evropska unija poriče svoju nedemokratsku dominaciju nad ovom sićušnom balkanskom republikom.
(Članak Davida Chandlera prenosimo sa stranice Spiked Online, gdje je objavljen 20. aprila 2006. ali za situaciju u BiH nije izgubio značaj. Zahvaljujemo se autoru i izdavaču na dozvoli za objavljivanje ovog članka u Pulsu demokratije.)
Ustav Srbije neće uticati na status Kosova’, interview with Dragan Štavljanin, Radio Free Europe, 31 October 2006.
‘Dejvid Čendler o statusu Kosova’, BBC Serbia, 26 October 2006. Dejvid Čandler, profesor medjunarodnih odnosa na Vetsminsterskom univerzitetu u Londonu i autor knjige "Od Kosova do Avganistana- ljudska prava i humanitarne intervencije" procenjuje da će za Kosovo biti nadjena formula koja će zadovoljiti i Putina i Buša i EU.
‘Aid: More about aiding the West than the Rest’, Spiked-Online, 25 October 2006. Two new books by former World Bank officials argue that aid to Africa is driven by gesture and narcissism rather than concern for the poor.
Nuclear Proliferation: North Korea and Iran’, studio discussion, Al-Jazeera International, 6 October 2006.
‘Čandler: Politika u BiH teatar’, BBC Serbia, 3 October 2006. U prvim komentarima izbora u Bosni i Hercegovini, svetske agencije iznose zabrinutost tamošnjih posmatrača oko njene budućnosti.
'Whose Kosovo is it Anyway', Spiked-Online, 3 October 2006. The Serb government's restated claim over Kosovo was more a symbolic gesture than 'war talk'.
'Moral Grandstanding in the Middle East', Spiked-Online, 1 September 2006. The EU and UN want to make political mileage out of the Israel-Lebanon crisis, while avoiding taking political responsibility for it.
'Muslim Perspectives on British Foreign Policy, interview for 'Ummah Talk, Islam Channel TV, 18 July 2006.
'Saving Africa? A Year on from the G8', panel discussion with Vincent Magombe, playwright and activist, and Tom Sharman, Action Aid, Saturday Extra, Sky News, 15 July 2006.
'After the Mexico Elections: Divided States?', studio interview, CNN International, 5 July 2006.
'Make Lecturing Africa History', Spiked-Online, 3 July 2006. A year on from Live 8, Bob, Bono and the rest seem more concerned with bashing African governments than helping African people.
‘Setting up a New Journal’, BISA News (Newsletter of the British International Studies Association), July 2006, pp.7-8.
'Fra Terrorismo E Guerra', Interview, La Provincia, 15 May 2006. Il grande inganno della guerra buona
Dalla Bosnia all’Iraq, gli Usa e i partner occidentali compensano con l’azione l’assenza di progettualità
Lo studioso britannico Chandler analizza questa forma di imperialismo deresponsabilizzata e pericolosa
'Bosnia: Whose State is it Anyway?', Spiked-Online, 20 April 2006. The European Union is in denial about its undemocratic domination of this tiny Balkan republic.
'Saddam's trial: playing the genocide card', Spiked-Online, 11 April 2006. The coalition is trying to win back some moral authority in Iraq by uttering the G-word.6.
'Zehn Jahre nach Dayton: Wer regiert Bosnien?', Novo Magazin, No.81, March/April 2006, p. 53.
'State-Building in Africa: Empowerment by Imposition', Spiked Essays, 7 March 2006. By focusing on 'capacity-building' and 'empowerment', international institutions seek to evade responsibility for their continued domination over African affairs.
'Serbia, War Crimes and EU Accession', Spiked-Online, 2 March 2006. Serbia is currently charged with genocide, under pressure to hand over General Mladic, and up for membership of the EU. What’s going on?
'Das Reinwaschen der Sieger', Novo Magazin, No.80, January/February 2006, p. 27
2005
'Globalaktivisten: Politik nicht von dieser Welt', Novo Magazin, No.79, November/December 2005, p. 38.
Ten Years on Who's Running Bosnia?', Spiked-Online, 23 November 2005. The only people freed up by Bosnia’s ‘democratic’ reforms will be EU administrators.
'Media coverage of the Saddam Trial', studio interview, Al-Jazeera, 26 October 2005.
'How "State-Building" Weakens States', Spiked Essays, 24 October 2005. The new focus on the international community’s ‘responsibility to protect’ failing states is external meddling by another name.
'Saddam Trial: Whose Demons are They?', Spiked-Online, 20 October 2005. The coalition is focusing on Saddam's crimes of 23 years ago in order to disclaim responsibility for present failures.
'Srebrenica: Salz auf die Wunden des Krieges', Novo Magazin, No.78, September/October 2005, p.54. Das Versprechen der internationalen Gemeinschaft, in Bosnien Gerechtigkeit zu üben, hat Hürden für die Versöhnung geschaffen.
'UN: Rhetoric without Responsibility', Spiked-Online, 16 September
2005. Today's United Nations is little more than a bloated international think-tank.
'A Step Back for Democracy in Iraq', Spiked-Online, 17 August 2005. In all the wrangling about the constitution, the one group nobody is consulting is the Iraqi people.
'Srebrenica: Prolonging the Wounds of War', Spiked-Online, 20 July 2005. The international community's promise of justice in Bosnia has erected a barrier to reconciliation.
'Saddam Trial: A Weak Case for War', Spiked-Online, 7 July 2005. Western powers look to lawyers when they run out of political arguments.
'Going Global?', CSD Bulletin, Vol.21, No.2, Summer 2005, pp.1-2, 20.
The EU and the Hague Tribunal', Spiked-Online, 1 April 2005. By forcing countries to trade alleged war criminals for accession rights, the EU puts politics at the heart of the Hague Tribunal.
'Kofi Annan and UN Reform', studio discussion, (listen again 8.55am), Today Programme, BBC Radio 4, 30 March 2005.
'The War Crimes Tribunal at the Hague', Co-op Radio, Vancouver, Canada, 25 March 2005.
'Security and Liberty', studio discussion, BBC News 24, 18 February 2005.
Celebrities "selling" a good cause', studio discussion with Matthew Paris and Wivina Belmonte (UNICEF), Outlook, BBC World Service, 3 February 2005.
'The Return of Trusteeship', Spiked-Online, 3 February 2005. Three new books consider trusteeship and other remedies for ‘failed states’.
'Can the West protect itself against terror without compromising the freedoms it has so long defended?', expert witness, studio discussion, Moral Maze, BBC Radio 4, 2 February 2005.
2004
'Bosnia's Paddy Ashdown: A Marginal Figure Without Limits', NIN [Belgrade], 12 December 2004, p. 11.
'Do we have a moral responsibility to Africa?', Moral Maze, BBC Radio 4, 1 December 2004.
Comments in Kent Harris, 'As U.S. forces leave, experts debate success of Bosnia mission', Stars and Stripes, 28 November 2004.
'Debate: After the US Election', Spiked-Online, 9 November 2004.
'The North East Assembly - Voting Against Politics?, Spiked-Online, 9 November 2004. A vote against too many politicians, too few powers, or what?
'Going Global: The Politics of Another Planet', Spiked Essays, 1 September 2004. Are the ‘new global movements’ advancing a radical agenda - or just retreating from politics?
'Mostar: Bridging the Divide?', Spiked-Online, 28 July 2004. Reconciliation ceremonies sponsored by the UN won't heal Bosnia's ethnic divisions. David Chandler reports from Mostar.
'The International Criminal Court and the US Exemption', Spiked-Online, 29 June 2004. Trials and tribulations at the International Criminal Court.
'Making the Geopolitical Personal', Spiked-Online, 16 June 2004. Anti-globalisation author Paul Kingsnorth seems more interested in self-discovery than radical politics.
'Passing the Buck in Iraq', Spiked-Online, 28 May 2004. Bush and Blair are 'transferring sovereignty' to shirk responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
'Kosovo: Building a "Multi-Ethnic" Tinderbox', Spiked-Online, 24 March 2004. Ethnic turmoil in Kosovo is the result of five years of UN and NATO meddling.
'Balancing' Liberty and Security, Spiked-Online, 4 February 2004. The UK home secretary's proposal for 'pre-emptive justice' to deal with potential terrorists shows how fear undermines freedom.
'OSCE Election Monitoring', Spiked-Online,14 January 2004. OSCE monitors now deem elections 'irregular' if people vote for the 'wrong' parties.
2003
'BBC intervju: "Ključni problem Dejtonskog sporazuma je u tome što je nametnut od spolja"', BBC World Service Serbian, 18 December 2003.
'The European Union and Governance in the Balkans', European Balkan Observer, Vol. 1, No. 2, November 2003.
'The Rule of Law in Iraq', Spiked-Online, 9 September 2003. The lessons of Bosnia for Iraq? That the 'rule of law' cannot be imposed from without.
'The Role of the UN in Iraq', Spiked-Online, 22 August 2003. The Baghdad terrorist attack led to a remarkable rewriting of the history of the UN's role in Iraq.
'Democratic Deficits', studio discussion, Analysis, BBC Radio 4, 21 August 2003. Further reading here. Transcript available here.
'Cosmopolitan Paradox', CSD Bulletin, Vol.10, No.2, Summer 2003, pp.12-14.
'What Kinnock did next ', Spiked-Online, 10 June 2003. Why are Western politicians restyling themselves as global advocates for those 'without a voice'?
'Human Shields', Spiked-Online, 4 March 2003. The human shield movement looks more like ethical tourism than solidarity.
'Asylum Policy', Spiked-Online, 19 February 2003. The right to asylum in the UK is being transformed into the West's right to intervene abroad.
'Internationaler Strafgerichtshof', Novo Magazin, No.61-62, November 2002--February 2003. Das Ringen um Ausnahmeregelungen zeigt: Die Hoffnung auf internationale Gerechtigkeit ist unbegründet.
2002
'Coward's war in Yemen', Spiked-Online, 22 November 2002. The CIA doesn't know if it got its al-Qaeda man - because it wasn't there.
'Law in disorder', Spiked-Online, 19 September 2002. UN involvement in the Iraq campaign neither makes war less likely, nor more 'legitimate'.
'Jack Straw's colonial discourse', Spiked-Online, 10 September 2002. The UK foreign secretary's speech on 'failed and failing states' lays out a very British alternative to US unilateralism - a return to the days of Empire.
'Hawk Talk', Spiked-Online, 6 September, 2002. War has become the easy option for America - and the anti-war camp is making it easier still.
'Limits of the ICC', Spiked-Online, 28 August 2002. The squabbles about the International Criminal Court indicate that some states are more equal than others.
'Bosnia's New Colonial Governor', Guardian, 9 July 2002. Paddy Ashdown is turning its elected leaders into his ciphers. (Guardian Letters - responses from Nicholas Whyte,
Balkans programme director
International Crisis Group, and Adam Walker, University of Hertfordshire, can be found here.)
'The King of Bosnia', Spectator, 8 June 2002. Paddy Ashdown must feel that power is finally his. Why else would he sack Bosnia's deputy prime minister?
'Imperialism may be out but aggressive wars and colonial protectorates are back', Observer Worldview, 14 April 2002. A response to Robert Cooper's provocative call for a new liberal imperialism. If the diplomat had used different language and stressed the universally 'empowering' nature of his project, his most vocal critics may well have applauded.
'Universal Values: Human Rights', studio discussion, Analysis, BBC Radio 4, 11 April 2002. For transcript click here.
'Not so new Imperialism', Spiked-Online, 11 April 2002. The UK Foreign Policy Centre's pamphlet on Reordering the World is controversial for one reason: its use of the language of old-fashioned realpolitik instead of new human rights-speak.
2001
'Learning from History', Variant, Vol.2, No.14, Winter 2001.
'Faking democracy in Kosovo', Spiked-Online, 27 November 2001. The provincial elections in Kosovo on 17 November were hailed as a 'step forward to democracy'. David Chandler, who observed the elections for the Council of Europe, wonders why.
''International Protectorate in Afghanistan', studio discussion, Newsnight, BBC2, 5 November 2001.
'Ripping up the Charter', Spiked-Online, 18 October 2001. How did the United Nations that protects people from the 'scourge of war' become a United Nations that legitimises military intervention and the creation of neo-colonial orders?
'Women's Rights and International Protectorates', studio discussion, Woman's Hour, BBC Radio 4, 19 October 2001.
'Dictating democracy in Belarus', Spiked-Online, 12 October 2001. The European and US authorities' attempts to 'assist democracy' in Belarus had the opposite effect - patronising voters and limiting their choices.
'Third time wrong: NATO's intervention in Macedonia', Spiked-Online, 30 August 2001. Those who think NATO's military intervention in Macedonia will bring peace and democracy should think again.
''The Dayton Accords', Talking History, Public Radio Satellite/Voice of America, 6 August 2001.
'Academics identify key issues in the upcoming general election: David Chandler: Participation bid will not reduce apathy',
Times Higher Education Supplement, 1 June 2001.
2000
'Kosovo elections: who's failing the test of democracy?', Spiked-Online, 29 December 2000. In the new 'democratic' Kosovo, what the people want comes low down the list of priorities.
'Bosnia, Kosovo and Democracy: Democracy in the age of humanitarian intervention', Current Concerns, Zurich, January 2000, pp.1,2 & 5.
1999
'Lehren aus Bosnien: Internationale Protektorate auf dem Balkan sind keine Losung', Novo Magazin, No.41, (Juli-August 1999), p.13.
'Faking Democracy: Vom Demokratie-Schwindel in Dayton zur Demokratie-Abschaffung in Rambouillet', Jungle World, 23 June 1999.
'Plan ohne Frieden: Die neue Bürde des weißen Mannes', Jungle World, 16 June 1999.
'The Lesson of Bosnia...is that an international protectorate solves nothing', Living Marxism, No.120, May 1999, p.12.
'Last night Mr Blair hailed our intervention in Bosnia as a success. As this alarming report reveals, the reverse is true', Daily Mail, 27 March 1999, p.6.
Comments in Simon Jenkins, 'The real catastrophe: No amount of NATO bombing will make Milosevic see sense in Kosovo', The Times, 24 March 1999.
1998
'The End of Sovereignty? Lessons Learned in the Bosnian Conflict', Living Marxism, No.114, October 1998, pp.43-44.
1997
'The Ministry of Truth and the Bosnian Elections', LM Commentary, 17 September 1997.
'Bosnia: More Democratisers, Less Democracy', Living Marxism, No.103, September 1997, pp.31-33.
'Preparing Bosnia for Democracy', LM Commentary, 29 June 1997.
'You will be Democratised: Why should the West decide what's best for the people of the Balkans', Living Marxism, No.98, March 1997, pp.43-46.
