The Complexity of Slums: Mapping, Planning, Drafting Laws, Destroying Myths
Image Caption: The slums of Caracas, Venezuela demonstrate some of the difficulties in defining the concept of a ‘slum’ and how researchers struggle...
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Qawwali as Media from its Traditional to its Modern Form
Image Caption: Qawwali musicians gather for a performance in Fatehpur Sikri, India. Religious injunctions in regards to music in Islam are teleological, or purp...
Integration in South America: A Brief Analysis of the MERCOSUR Case in Light of the European Experience
Image Caption: Some political scientists have judged MERCOSUR’s progress on integration against the benchmark set by the EU, but such a comparison may res...
Saudi Arabia and Oil Depletion
Image Caption: As Saudi Arabia’s production and export of oil slows down, the nation will have to undergo a number of significant changes as it adjusts. S...
Caught between Baghdad and Erbil: The Political Struggle of Iraqi Turkmans
Image Caption: A man in traditional Turkman clothing sits in Altun Kupri, a town near Kirkuk, Iraq. In the summer of 2014, Arshad al-Salihi, head of the Iraqi T...
The Future of Unipolarity
After the bipolar world order ended with the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union, what was left, some argued, was a new power distribution within the ...
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela: A Snapshot in the Life
South Africa’s Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, endearingly called Mama Winnie and “Mother of the Nation,” passed away in early April. A funeral service was held on A...
Should the United States Implement Democracy in the Muslim World?
The Islamist Ennahda party in Tunisian parliament. Ever since the fall of the Soviet Union and subsequent establishment of Western liberal hegemony, American ac...
Rebuilding Afghanistan in Its Own Failed Image
The Afghani Parliament in 2006. When it comes to the state-building effort in Afghanistan, there would seem to be plenty to criticize in the realm of poor polic...
From Russia With Love: Mercenaries, Trolls, Oligarchs, and the Story of Yevgeniy Prigozhin
Two months ago, on the night of February 7th 2018, T-72 tanks, BRDM armored personnel carriers, and trucks carrying 122mm howitzer artillery and BM-21 rocket la...
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