Tag: Political Movements
51 Articles
- Conflict & Security
Tunisia’s Fraying Governing Coalition Threatens to Undermine CVE/CT Strategy
A Deficient Approach to CVE/CT The Tunisian government’s existing CVE/CT policy has often focused on heavy-handed law enforcement tactics. It has closed mosques and removed…
December 19, 2018
- Global Governance
Between Scylla and Charybdis: How trivialization and complexity are “compressing” representative democracy
Trivialization is responsible for the erosion of the public sphere through over-simplified, and often polarizing, accounts of reality and political choice. For instance, populist…
July 27, 2018
- Global Governance
The Autocrats’ Comeback: A Cautionary Tale
To consolidate power, these modern autocrats follow the typical authoritarian playbook to impose deep and swift stresses on their democracies: from repressing media and civil…
July 27, 2018
- Dialogues
Journalism, Opposition, and Democratization in Putin’s Russia
GJIA: How do you predict Putin’s next term will be different from the previous four? VKM: If you look at Vladimir Putin’s rule over the last 18 years, it’s been remarkably…
April 16, 2018
- Global Governance
Ramaphosa and the Hydra of State Capture
As President Ramaphosa sets himself to the task of repairing the South African state after nine devastating years under Zuma, a dizzying array of options lies before him. In his…
April 3, 2018
- Global Governance
Australia’s Gun Laws Can’t Work in America – For Now
For Australians, Port Arthur was the last straw. Newly elected Prime Minister John Howard – the country’s most conservative leader in decades – proposed national gun…
March 30, 2018
- Dialogues
Macedonia: Toward Reconciliation and Integration with Vasko Naumovski
GJIA: There have recently been protests in Greece over the use of the name Macedonia sparked by negotiations between the two countries. How have these negotiations progressed…
March 14, 2018
- Conflict & Security
The Seven Capacities of States: a Meta-Geopolitical Framework
Taken together, these two observations prompt the development of what I have previously referred to as Neo-Statecraft, of which Meta-geopolitics forms a key component. Distinct…
March 8, 2018
- Global Governance
What’s Going on in Catalonia?
On the day of the referendum, the Spanish authorities could not thwart large-scale turnout, despite the use of police force. On 6 October, the Catalan government announced that 2…
December 5, 2017
- Society & Culture
Things Fall Apart: Populism and Foreign Policy
Trump does indeed have guiding principles, but they are process principles and not the substantive principles that we are used to seeing in a president. What shapes his foreign…
October 20, 2017