by JACOB MICHAEL AWRABI | Mar 14, 2018 | University of California, Los Angeles
When examining democratic erosion, a prime example of a brief case study is that of Turkey. Through an array of authoritarian tactics, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has increasingly seized unchecked executive power. As a result, Erdogan has created...
by George Golden | Feb 14, 2018 | Columbia University
The Turkish society has become increasingly polarized since the coup attempt of 15 July 2016. However, Erdogan and his rather conventional opponents, particularly secularists, nationalists and even the Kurdish minority, have come together in a rare consensus that...
by Dania Helou | Nov 20, 2017 | University of Memphis
Attorney General Avichai Mendelblit, on Wednesday, reconfirmed Israeli Supreme Court’s decision that Israeli authorities could expropriate privately owned Palestinian land for public use for Jewish settlements in the West Bank. According to the Supreme Court Justice...
by Michaela Kollin | Nov 8, 2017 | Boston University
In his article in the Journal of Democracy, “Thinking About Hybrid Regimes,” Larry Diamond describes a hybrid regime as a regime that exists in countries that have democratic elections but not civil liberties (Diamond 27). Egypt is the type of hybrid regime that...
by Cody Duane-Mcglashan | Oct 30, 2017 | Brown University
In the past fifteen years, Turkey has gone from economic ruin to burgeoning democracy held up as a model for the world to a state in the midst of severe democratic and liberal backsliding. All these stages have occurred under the leadership of Racep Tayyip Erdogan,...
