by Abbi Foglietta | Oct 17, 2019 | Salem State University
How anti-democratic measures are eroding democratic norms in North Carolina In the book How Democracies Die, Daniel Ziblatt and Steven Levitsky argue that backsliding governments may reject the democratic rules of the game in order to keep power, and may employ any...
by Thomas Martino | May 7, 2019 | University of Chicago
The Gulf War On September 11, 1990, President H.W. Bush addressed a joint session of Congress concerning the Gulf War. The War was a decisive victory for the United States and a coalition of more than twenty other nations. The Iraqi troops occupying Kuwait were...
by Ben-Ari Boukai | May 7, 2019 | Georgetown University
Could terror attacks lead to a roll-back of recent Democratic strengthening in Sri Lanka? Time will tell. On Easter morning, April 21, the world watched as Sri Lanka fell victim to a series of coordinated terror attacks across three cities. The eventual death toll...
by Kenneth Coleman | May 5, 2019 | University of Chicago
In Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy, Acemoglu and Robinson present the role of the middle class in the formation and continuity of democracy. Since democracy forms as a “response to a serious revolutionary threat or significant social...
by Ruth Selipsky | Apr 29, 2019 | University of Chicago
Over the past two decades, Romania has enacted several democratizing reforms, including founding the National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA), repealing defamation laws, and finally joining the European Union in 2007. Under the current administration, however, the...
