David Hayes is deputy editor of openDemocracy. He has written textbooks on human rights and terrorism, and was a contributor to Town and Country (Jonathan Cape, 1998). His work has been published in PN Review, the Irish Times, El Pais, the New Statesman and The Absolute Game.

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The United States presidential election has provoked huge attention in the rest of the world. But there are different kinds of engagement. Some are explored on the day of the vote by three friends in a London cafe, as imagined by David Hayes.

The global financial turmoil is opening new fissures in the world's political crust. All the more need to make a cool assessment of the prospects for left and right, say Andrew Dobson & David Hayes.

(This article was first published on 22 October 2008)

The ripples of war may yet provoke waves of political change across the continent

The intensifying Afghan war reverberates in Paris.