Tag: Political Movements
51 Articles
- Conflict & Security
In 2020, Peru Became a Tinderbox
For the first nineteen years of the twenty-first century, Peru was a Latin American success story. Economic growth was rapid; poverty and inequality declined; democracy was…
February 19, 2021
- Conflict & Security
The Algerian Counter-Revolution or the Obsolescence of Authoritarian Upgrading
When looking at the trajectory of the Algerian Hirak—the peaceful revolutionary mobilization that led to the resignation of former president Abdelaziz Bouteflika in 2019—one…
February 2, 2021
- Society & Culture
High Expectations: Chile’s Path Toward a New Constitution
Nothing is Perfect—Appearances Can Be Deceiving It often happens that a country’s reality, when viewed from abroad, looks very different from the way its own citizens…
November 26, 2020
- Human Rights & Development
Oil, Ethnic Conflict, and Necessary and Sufficient Reforms
Guyana, a small, English-speaking country of about 780,000 people in South America, comes out at the bottom of the Human Development Index ranking of the fifteen full members of…
May 12, 2020
- Forum
Facing Extinction? Climate Protests after Coronavirus
The current health crisis will eventually pass, and climate change will return to everyday debate. But the surge in public concern about global warming has been interrupted, and…
May 6, 2020
- Global Governance
Politics at the End of the Anthropocene
The above introduction was supposed to be the opening of a text focusing on the overlap of the climate crisis, right-wing authoritarianism, and the origins of both in our fossil…
April 20, 2020
- 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
- Human Rights & Development
Development Cooperation: Threatened but Supported by a Durable Consensus
In contemporary times, we have seen aid weaponized by a transactional administration that views aid as a gift to be withheld in exchange for unrelated concessions. The alleged …
December 10, 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
- Dialogues
Kathleen McNamara on Brexit and the Future of the UK
GJIA: Brexit has been in the news recently. Jeremy Corbin announced on October 29th that he was in favor of a general election in December 2019. If a general election happens,…
November 19, 2019