Turkey continues to slide towards chaos as President Tayyip Erdogan escalates attacks against Kurdish rebels in the southeast of the country and jails citizens who openly object to the violence. In a …
Settler use of Privately-Owned Palestinian Land and Israeli Democracy by DH @ the University of Memphis
Attorney General Avichai Mendelblit, on Wednesday, reconfirmed Israeli Supreme Court’s decision that Israeli authorities could expropriate privately owned Palestinian land for public use for Jewish …
Polarization and Executive Aggrandizement in Egypt by Michaela Kollin @ Boston University
In his article in the Journal of Democracy, “Thinking About Hybrid Regimes,” Larry Diamond describes a hybrid regime as a regime that exists in countries that have democratic elections but not civil …
Polarization Fuels Erdogan’s Consolidation of Power in Turkey by Cody Duane-McGlashan @ Brown University
In the past fifteen years, Turkey has gone from economic ruin to burgeoning democracy held up as a model for the world to a state in the midst of severe democratic and liberal backsliding. All these …
“Wartime Iraq and Gender Ideologies” by Allante’ Boykin @ University of Memphis
In war time Iraq, conflict spills from the battlefield into civilian life. As a consequence, the dynamics of the family is corrupted, and homes are left unattended. Woman-headed households are mostly …
For God or Country? Religion and Israeli Democracy by Matthew Jarrell @ Brown University
Israel is a small nation, about the size of New York City in population and the state of New Jersey in land area. It was established in 1948 as a Jewish state, and its national symbols, institutions, …