Category: Society & Culture
112 Articles
- Society & Culture
Gender Issues in Kurdistan
Historically, Kurdish women have struggled to make their voices heard. Indeed, in Kurdish, among many other languages, the word for voice—deng—is the same as that for vote.…
December 30, 2019
- Society & Culture
To Impeach or Not to Impeach: Lessons from Latin America
Since 1978, congresses from six of the nineteen Latin American countries have removed ten presidents through impeachments or declarations of incapacity (or the leaders have…
December 13, 2019
- Society & Culture
Hong Kong’s Escalating Protests: Three Questions
In February 2019, Hong Kong’s government proposed a bill to permit extradition requests from mainland China and Macau for criminal suspects. Opponents expressed long-standing…
December 9, 2019
- Forum: LGBTQ+ Issues in International Relations
- Society & Culture
LGBTIQ Rights in Kenya: On Artivism and Social Change
In a country where many consider homosexuality to be “un-African,” the High Court decision will mark a watershed moment in a twenty-year struggle. For two decades, a lively…
May 14, 2019
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The Struggle of the Indigenous Population in Contemporary Brazil
But the decisive step was taken by the Constitution of 1988, in which Article 231 establishes that the Indians’ “original rights” (“direitos originários”) to the lands…
May 8, 2019
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Nationalism in South Asia and the “Problem of Kashmir”
In the most recent iteration of this conflict, revolving largely around the disputed status of Kashmir, India responded to a deadly terrorist attack on a convoy of its soldiers…
April 4, 2019
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Missing in Action: The Absence of Women Scholars on Foreign Policy Panels
These findings are consistent with the numbers in academia, where women scholars in International Relations are still a minority: 70 percent of International Relations (IR)…
March 26, 2019
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Musical Diplomacy: The Eurovision Song Contest in Tel Aviv
The ESC is an annual, live, televised popular music song contest in which national public service broadcasting organizations from Europe, as well as Australia and Israel, submit…
March 15, 2019
- Society & Culture
The Rise of Blunt Power in the Strongman Era
One can certainly track where it has been: comity. The unfamiliar word nicely straddles the international and interpersonal. It refers to a mutually beneficial association of…
February 28, 2019
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Preventing Violence in Ukraine Following Church Independence
The Ukrainian church’s independence – proclaimed by Orthodoxy’s leading prelate, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I – followed another escalation in Russia’s Ukrainian…
February 7, 2019