by Robert Combs | Oct 12, 2020 | Brown University
Outrage, shock and dismay greeted the publication of a report from El Faro news site claiming that El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele “cut deals” with the Mara Salvatrucha gang (MS-13) in order to reduce homicides and gain the gang’s political support (Washington...
by Batuhan Tamer Uslu | May 27, 2020 | Koç University
June 23, 2019, was an important day for the Czech Republic. On this date, one of the biggest protests of the Republic’s history is formed (after the Velvet Revolution in 1989). More than 250.000 people were on the streets in Prague, wanting their country’s...
by Jenna Aungst | May 11, 2020 | Georgia State University
In recent years, the country of Romania has been raft with civil unrest in response to the ongoing fight against political corruption. As the population mobilizes to make themselves heard, they are met with a combination of both adversity and support. Outlined below...
by Mohammad Almishlawi | May 1, 2020 | Bilkent University
For a long time, Lebanon has been synonymous for civil conflicts and sectarian clientelism; Lebanese citizens never had a high level of solidarity and sympathy across their various sects and regions. The consociational democratic system in the country has brought huge...
by Salman Khan | Apr 6, 2020 | Georgia State University
It’s often argued that democracies run on a supply and demand system; demand being civil society, and according to Michael Fowler, supply being “aggregated into four categories of rational choice institutions: the military, NGOs, political parties, and the ruling...
