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 Kaan Aksoy | Apr 22, 2020 | Bilkent University
Aspiring autocrats do not necessarily need to seek out ways to legitimise their attacks on the institutions of democracy, such as free media, checks and balances, and civil society. Sometimes, such legitimacy is granted to them by the forces beyond the control of...
by Steven Rubin | Apr 6, 2020 | Boston University
In the Middle East, no country is more democratic than the State of Israel, as evidenced by the Democracy Index of 2019 [1]. However, the strain put on Israel’s political system in the past year has...
by Ibony Mejia | Dec 15, 2019 | Georgia State University
Civil wars occur in many, if not, all countries. In many of these countries, civil wars continue for years or just never get solved. Lebanon’s civil war is an excellent example of an unsolved war from 1975 to 1990 when the war ended but was still left unsolved....
by Geetika Badham | May 2, 2019 | Georgia State University
We hear about refugees and immigrants a lot more in the news than we used to before. Who are refugees anyway? By standard definition, a refugee is someone who has been forced to flee his or her country because of persecution, war or violence. Refugees do not willingly...
