by Zach Hopkins | Dec 3, 2018 | Georgia State University
We live in a world where democracy seems to be wavering and polarization intensifying with each passing moment. What role do large social media companies have in aiding this divide or perhaps helping it? Our species is more connected than ever because of such rapid...
by Mathias Penguilly | May 16, 2018 | Georgia State University
After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, we have been conditioned to believe that democracy was eternal and that no other system could triumph against it. The Western powers also consider that morally, no other political model can top the people’s...
by Jillian Seigel | Apr 13, 2018 | Skidmore College
International relations between countries come with very high stakes. The geopolitical climate of the Middle East has perpetuated conflict to spread throughout the world but has also receive the brunt of other conflicts inflicted by other countries. The country I...
by Sarah Armstrong | Mar 28, 2018 | Yale University
While Russia masquerades characteristics of democracy, President Vladimir Putin presides over an authoritarian political system with power concentrated entirely in his regime. Lacking an independent judiciary, free and fair elections, a pluralistic legislator, and an...
by DENNIS RECHELLE ALYSE | Mar 15, 2018 | University of California, Los Angeles
This Sunday, Russia will be holding their presidential elections. Incumbent President Vladimir Putin is projected to win another term in a landslide which would bring his political reign to nearly a quarter of a century placing him only behind former Soviet leader...