Simon Gregory Jerome / April 1, 2012 4:30 pm
Thursday evening, Professor Mitchell Orenstein of Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies presented his paper, “Post-Soviet Authoritarianism: The Influence of Russia in Its Near Abroad” as the last lecture in an eighteen-month series by the Harriman Institute. The paper is co-authored by Professor David R. Cameron of Yale University. Professor Orenstein’s research ranges from international economic policy to pension ref...
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Nadine Mansour / July 5, 2012 2:32 pm
photo of anti-Qaddafi protest from Wikimedia Commons The spectacle of thousands of people peacefully protesting and the prospect of change that they can bring attracts media coverage. But post-conflict and transitional regions are often off the media radar immediately after the first elections have occurred, when all is presumed to be “free and fair”. Elections indicate a positive step in the transition away from authoritarianism and toward dem...
Taylor Thompson / February 8, 2012 12:45 pm
...onservatives wish it was (the ideology of the War on Terror was a decade-long disaster occasioned by severe miscalculation about the strategic threat posed by radical Islam). The United States was pulled into war on September 11, 2001. It reacted to war as it historically has: with overreaction. Under the Bush administration, we profoundly overestimated Osama bin Laden’s ability to achieve his stated aim: overthrowing governments across the Musli...
Armin Rosen / October 18, 2009 5:19 pm
...ly doing with our personal information—Are they analyzing it? Giving it to sociological researchers? Selling it? Handing it over to the government? Just sort of letting it sit there?—we would need “an insider who’s willing to post a bunch of internal documents or wikilinks,” a Facebook employee willing to expose any misuse of the information the company owns and controls. Even without overt CIA or techno-futurist collusion, Facebook has resulted...
Maria Insalaco / April 2, 2008 2:58 am
...rselves Despite the persistent questions directed at its premises from inside and outside the field, the study of culture in a broad sense is a crucial tactic in attempting to understand other cultures. In our post-September 11th context, the government seeks a greater understanding of particular foreign societies. Cultural studies, with its scrutiny of former American attempts to understand other regions of the world, calls recent attempts into...
Sam Rosenfeld / December 2, 2003 3:23 pm
Art by Dan Touff The comparisons to Pearl Harbor came naturally to most people on September 11th, 2001. Newspapers and politicians immediately pronounced this a new day destined to live in infamy, and a new day of shared sacrifice and heroism. It was likely with the imagery of that earlier day in mind—of Uncle Sam and war bonds and victory gardens and the like—that so many Americans seemed to yearn for a summons to service and national engageme...
Alex Klein / December 19, 2011 11:39 pm
adical critique of the entwinement of American democracy and its vastly stratified capitalist system. Jeffrey Sachs, in an address to the Occupy Wall Street People’s Forum, put it simply: “In 1980, the top 1 percent took home 9 percent of the household income. Now, the top 1 percent takes home 23 percent of the income. The top 1 percent of wealth holders has more wealth than the bottom 90 percent of this country. The top 0.01 percent – that...
Nadine Mansour / December 16, 2012 9:07 pm
Nadine Mansour “The success of our efforts to devise a thoroughly Egyptian model for reform will depend to a large extent on the ability of our political parties to mould themselves into dynamic grassroots forces, thereby stimulating broader public participation in the political process,” wrote Ibrahim Nafie, a columnist for the Al-Ahram weekly newspaper, referring to Egypt’s first multi-candidate elections in 2005. But this comment could not b...
Nadine Mansour / May 26, 2012 9:52 pm
...t dominated by Islamists. Writing a constitution under a Muslim Brotherhood president and a majority Islamist parliament would not represent the true interests of Egypt’s pluralistic population. A Possible Third Candidate and Post-Election Plans Already, the top two candidates attempts to widen their support have failed. Shafiq’s post-election rhetoric claims to respect the “glorious revolution” but his participation in its very suppression as a...
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