Tag: Civil Society
124 Articles
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The Georgetown Journal’s Guide to Occupy Nigeria: Why Hawkers Love a Traffic Jam
In 2007 the CIA predicted that by 2015 Nigeria would either become a failed state or, following Sudan’s recent example, split into more than one country (separating the North and…
February 14, 2012
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Morocco’s Parliamentary Elections: More of the Same
The results themselves are not particularly surprising. The Justice and Development Party (PJD), a moderate Islamist party, won the largest share of seats (107 out of 395) while…
December 1, 2011
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Strategic Optimism and the Arab Spring
These bloody events are tragic and ominous – but they are not a reason to give up on the Arab Spring. The popular protests that swept the Arab world this year are still the best…
October 24, 2011
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Jürgen Habermas on “Myth & Religion”
As a public intellectual he has also offered arguments in public debates about the “Historians’ Quarrel” in Germany, the role of religion in public life and the future of…
October 24, 2011