The over three million participating protesters represent a wide spectrum of ideologies, walks of life, and religious sects.
Erdogan’s Iron Fist
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Democracy & Governance
Czechoslovakia’s Velvet Divorce
Czechs miss Slovaks, but not the other way around.
Erdogan Goes All Robert Moses on Istanbul
A prime minister rampages across Istanbul’s landscape.
Five Ways the Arms Trade Treaty Advances Arms Control
Critics of the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) have lampooned the agreement’s relatively meager reporting requirements and evident lack of an enforcement mechanism. But for all its weaknesses, the treaty deserves to be celebrated. One person dies every minute as a result of armed violence, and the ATT makes significant progress towards combating this problem.
Foreign Aid Is Afghanistan’s Resource Curse
Afghanistan, which manages to generate only about $2 billion per year of its own revenues and depends on international donors for the rest of its budget, suffers from a kind of resource curse. With plenty of cash and no accountability to citizens—as well as minimal oversight by donors—Afghan officials are free to rip off donor resources and ignore or extort their fellow citizens with relative impunity.
Restoring Slovenia’s Erased
The Erasure took place in 1992, the first organization of the Erased was founded in 2002, and victory was secured in 2012.
The Dying Sahara: Jeremy Keenan’s Latest Book Reviewed
The British anthropologist has published his second volume on growing instability in the Sahara.
Emphasis Added: The Foreign Policy Week in Pieces (5/24)
Emphasis, as always, added.
Yugoslavia: When a Country Actually Is Wiped Off the Map
When Yugoslavia fell apart in the early 1990s, most people simply became citizens of what had once been its constituent republics: Croatia, Bosnia, etc. But for some, it was not a simple process.
Will the Jordanian Parliament Expel the Israeli Ambassador from Amman?
Why did 89 members of Parliament decide to create a false perception of solidarity with the Palestinians?