UNREST IN INDIA OVERFARMING LAWS: CAN INDIA’S IMMENSE DIASPORA INFLUENCE GOVERNMENT ACTION?
“O ur objective is that the black laws enacted by the Modi government are repe- aled,” Baljinder Singh, a 52-year-old farmer...
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AFEK SHAMIR
Oct 19
10 YEARS LATER: WHY AND HOW EGYPT’S REVOLUTION FAILED
The brave men are brave The cowards are cowardly Come with the brave Together to the Square T AHRIR, EGYPT: If one could assume the...
Lucien Enev
Oct 19
HIRAK, EPISODE II: THE ARDUOUS FIGHT FOR DEMOCRACY IN POST-BOUTEFLIKA ALGERIA.
O n the 22nd of February, thousands of protesters gathered in the streets of Algiers to mark the two-year anniversary of the “Hirak”...
HECTOR MCKECHNIE
Oct 19
LATIN AMERICA MAY BE THE NEW BATTLEGROUND FOR THE SINO-AMERICAN RIVALRY - NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN
A t its core, history can be defined as a power competition between two actors. The ‘winner’ sets the rules to which the ‘loser’ must...
Lea Wowra
Oct 19
DEAR WESTERN MEDIA, GET YOUR NARRATIVES STRAIGHT.
I n early February, amid BBC headlines on ethnic clashes in Nigeria, new Ebola outbreaks in Guinea, and individual fates in the...
Sam Fowler
Oct 19
THE DIVIDING LINE: WHERE IS THE ‘GLOBAL SOUTH’?
T he Global South a phrase we use today generally to indicate countries in cer- tain regions which are deemed low or middle income. These...
Omar Khan
Oct 19
CORRUPTION 101: HOW TRULY DAMAGING IS IT AND CAN IT BE STOPPED?
I magine you’re in Sipopo, just outside the capital of Equatorial Guinea. You see a five-star hotel and fifty luxury villas standing...
Lia Goldman
Oct 19
THE EU AND ‘DEMOCRATIC DEFICIT: Is the EU in crisis?
D emocracy is hard work. Demagogues can enforce their rule through repression, armies and buy-offs. But democracy requires constant...
Anoushka Jha
Oct 19
EROSION FROM WITHIN: The Great American Redoubt
W hen citizens think about ‘survival’, it is often in the context of climate disasters, nuclear attacks, the country being knocked into...
Laura Ionescu
Oct 19
MODERN SEXISM: Why Inequality Will Lead to Democratic Destruction
A political scientist at Texas A&M University claimed that a social contract is forged between leaders and their male subjects: “Men...
Joseph Bingham Opp
Oct 19
THE MATTER OF STATE SECURITY: Russia’s War on Democracy, its Motivations, and a Call to Self-Defence
“There is no such thing as a former KGB agent.” - Badri Patarkatsishvili, former employer of Andrey Lugovy, KGB/FSB agent, turned Deputy...
Jacob Adelhoch
Oct 19
THE BALKAN POWDER-KEG: Why the World Should Care about Bosnia’s Newest Separatist Crisis
2 021 has been marked by several major international developments, from the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban, to escalating tensions in...
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