Greece recently hosted the Athens Democracy Forum, organised by the UK-based Democracy and Culture Foundation and supported by the New York Times and leading Greek newspaper Kathimerini. The main ...

A drumbeat of hard realities echoed through the halls at this year’s Athens Democracy Forum, where participants noted trends that do not portend well for the form of governance. By Serge Schmemann The ...

These are tumultuous times for democracy. Syriza’s meteoric rise and partial fall was joined by one of the most statistically skewed elections in British history; a surprise victory for the Liberal ...

Athens: Doha Forum, Qatar’s flagship platform promoting diplomacy, dialogue and diversity, is participating in the Athens Democracy Forum. Convened under the auspices of the United Nations and the ...

Fifty-two years after the student and popular uprising at the Athens Polytechnic against the military dictatorship, the Greek ...

What is the difference between representative government and the government in ancient Athens? In a representative government ...

Socrates’ method was to clear his students’ minds of abstractions and assumptions, so that they might attain self-knowledge and learn the practical wisdom of living well. His pupil Plato, however, ...

Athens and Sparta were two very different societies, yet the two legendary city-states hold priceless historic value for ...