More: Democracy
Obama’s legacy and a confused future
President Obama's farewell address focusing on the state of our democracy offered a lofty perspective coupled with a homily on the responsibility of citizenship....
Geopolitics of Technology and the Hydrocarbon Status Quo
The unrest in the Arab world, which has continued for over a year now, implies one important conclusion beyond any ongoing regional struggle for...
PKK vs. Turkey: Brothers of Nihilism and Non-empathy
Abdullah Ocalan was a member of a Marxist Kurdish movement. Initially, he disseminated opinions of social injustice within Kurdish identity and used the grievances...
Anxiety in Ankara: Assassination, Geopolitics, and Democracy in Turkey
On December 19, 2016, the Russian ambassador to Turkey, Andrey Karlov, was assassinated by Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş, an off-duty police officer, in Ankara during...
India’s biggest comedy of 2016: Black money eradication under PM Modi’s Administration
Modi, Modi, Modi…. (this) was the slogan gracing the ears of participants across the country during India’s 2014 general election campaign. From cab drivers...
The curious case of a Russian hacking
Ever since Donald Trump won the elections, the Democrats who have been (or ‘were’) very magnanimous about the fact they would accept the election...
The essential data to analyze the Uyghur issue
A s is well known to all serious scholars and experts of the Uyghur and Xinjiang issue, the tensions with the Chinese...
Reset Button: What Shavkat Mirziyoyev’s Election Means for Uzbekistan’s Domestic and Regional Future
A s Uzbekistan headed for the polls on December 4 to choose a successor for longtime strongman Islam Karimov, his prime minister...
Italy’s political crisis after Prime Minister Renzi’s resignation
A fter the start of the famous so-called "Second Republic" the thirteen governments, which succeeded one another in Italy, have lasted approximately...
Light from Austria in European Darkness
W e are in the months December, in the time of year when many, although the majority of them not honestly, like...