The new NGOs are designed to both provide direct service and to put pressure on the increasingly authoritarian Slovakian government.
The New Wave of NGOs in Slovakia and East-Central Europe
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Democracy & Governance
Zapatistas at Twenty
There are two tests of social change movements: endurance and regeneration. After two decades, Mexico’s Zapatista movement can now say it passed both.
Open Fire and Open Markets: The Asia-Pacific Pivot and Trans-Pacific Partnership
Thomas Friedman once said the hidden hand of the market needs the hidden fist of the military. The TPP and the Obama administration’s Pacific Pivot pack both.
NAFTA at 20: A Model for Corporate Rule
NAFTA gave multinational corporations the right to sue governments to block regulations they don’t like, undermining democracy and local sovereignty.
Can China Win Back Hong Kong?
Relations between Hong Kong and mainland China have fallen to some of their greatest depths since the city’s handover to Beijing.
Nepal’s Disputed Election: Managing Pandora’s Box
After a contentious and disputed election, Nepal’s centrist parties are struggling to reach an accord with the Maoists who helped bring down the country’s monarchy.
U.S. Continues to Stand by Bahrain
Chuck Hagel’s paeans to “political reform” in the Gulf must have sounded strange to political prisoners in repressive Bahrain, where he delivered his remarks.
Jordanian Women Who Marry Immigrants Denied Civil Rights
If they marry non-Jordanians, Jordanian women are only granted something called “services rights.”
Reasons To Be Cheerful
Before we get cynical about 2014, let’s recount the good news from 2013: declining U.S. militarism, a resurgence of diplomacy, and a more forceful global discussion about inequality.
German Resistance: A Matter of Principle
German Parliament member Reinhard Weisshuhn, once an East German dissident, seeks to provide an infusion of human rights into current German politics.