Tag: Regimes & Governance
240 Articles
- Dialogues
The Future of Cyprus with Cypriot Ambassador Leonidas Pantelides
How do you think your conflict with Turkey [regarding Turkish Cyprus] will turn out within the next decade? We don’t call it conflict with Turkey, of course. We are engaged…
October 25, 2017
- Society & Culture
Laboratory of Democracy? Turkey’s Scientific Institutions After the July 15 Coup
Established in 1963 to support state-led economic planning, the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK) identifies and promotes areas where government…
October 7, 2017
- Human Rights & Development
Time for Renewal of Religious Independence in Uzbekistan
Over the centuries, Muslim scholars from Uzbekistan have contributed much to history. The Uzbek mathematician Al-Khorezmi is widely known as the “Father of Algebra.” The…
September 21, 2013
- Global Governance
View From Beirut: Failures of the Lebanese Political System
Lebanon is, for lack of a better phrase, a failed state. Living there, I have found this as the most important, yet least understood, fact in attempting to grant Lebanon its…
August 23, 2013
- Global Governance
Prime Minister Abe’s Diplomatic Agenda
Last month, the ruling coalition in Japan won a resounding electoral victory in the Upper House elections, giving Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and…
August 13, 2013
- Global Governance
Mutual Frustration: The State of Russian-American Relations
When President Obama first came into office in January 2009, his administration announced that it wanted to improve Russian-American relations, which it believed had deteriorated…
August 9, 2013
- Online Archive
‘O Gigante Acordou’: Brazilian National Protests for Policy Reforms and Why They Matter
This was only the beginning of an outbreak of national protests against more than just the increase of bus and metro fares; droves of mostly middle-class Brazilians began to go…
July 29, 2013
- Online Archive
The ASEAN Synthesis: Human Rights, Non-Intervention, and the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration
The ASEAN Human Rights Declaration (AHRD) has been welcomed as the most impressive commitment to protecting human rights within ASEAN ever created. At the same time, others have…
July 26, 2013
- Online Archive
Forum: The Integration of Regions
Regional integration and regional organizations are two sides of the same coin although at times stamped with different metals. Regional organizations are often characterized by…
July 26, 2013
- Online Archive
The Arctic Council as Regional Body
The Arctic Council (AC) is an intergovernmental organization that, since its creation in 1996, has been widely recognized as one of the most progressive regional bodies in the…
July 26, 2013