by Sophia Grazia Mauro | Dec 17, 2020 | Sabanci University
American democracy is in a state of democratic decline. Once rated 93 by Freedom House’s Freedom in the World index in 2013, the U.S.’s score dropped to 86 by 2019 (Repucci 2020). This regression did not merely occur overnight, but rather as a gradual process of the...
by Kristy Lam | Oct 21, 2020 | University of Chicago
On October 15, when escalating protests led to thousands of demonstrators gathering publicly on the anniversary of a student-led uprising against a military dictatorship, Prime Minister Prayut invoked a state of emergency in Bangkok. The Emergency Decree cited “groups...
by Armin Amina | Oct 14, 2020 | University of Georgia
On October 13, 1990, major factions all around Lebanon who have been trying to seize control of the country since 1975, signed a historic peace deal between each other. Throughout Lebanon’s history in the late 20th century. Lebanon has gone under a long period of a...
by Marc Jamali | Apr 24, 2020 | Georgia State University
How the growing pandemic is threatening stability in Africa’s largest nation Even though Nigeria still has a relatively low number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 as of this moment, the chaos that has gripped the country and the delight among some that the virus...