The Bharatiya Janata Party and the State of Consociational Rule in India
Power-sharing theory holds that democracy is possible in deeply divided societies but only if their type of democracy is consociational, that is, characterized ...
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Facing the Facts and Translating to Action: The American Media and Government Responses to the Armenian versus the Darfur Genocides
The American media has long been tasked with the daunting duty of reckoning with evil and presenting it to a relatively naive public. Genocide—“the darkes...
We “Still Waiting”: Barriers to the Achievement of Social Equality in South Africa through the Lens of LGBT Rights
During its transition to democracy in May of 1996, South Africa adopted one of the most progressive national constitutions of its time—the first in the world to...
Honorable Mention – Understanding Sexual Warfare in Kashmir: Prevalence, Consequences, and a Feminist Critique
Since the Indian invasion of 1947, the northern state of Jammu and Kashmir has been plagued by fierce armed conflict and political tension. Kashmiri insurgents ...
A Case for Clandestine Diplomacy: The Secret UK-US-Libyan Talks
Introduction From the Cuban Missile Crisis to today’s Israeli-Palestinian conflict, clandestine diplomacy has played an integral role in international relations...
Science and Technology in Modern China: A Historical and Strategic Perspective on State Power
Introduction “Carry out the policy of opening to the outside world and learn advanced science and technology from other countries. China cannot develop by...
The New Ottoman Citizen: Moderate Islamism and Kurdish Reforms in The Context of Neo-Ottoman Citizenship
The June 8, 2013 cover of The Economist featured the face of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, superimposed on the reclining, robed body of a 16th ce...
The Importance of the Diaspora’s Investment in Haiti
Introduction Since 1990, the Haitian government has transformed—with laborious displays of violence—19 times.[1] The trend is part of a cycle of sustained polit...
The Bodhisattva and Those Who Burned: On Self-Immolation and the Silence of the Dalai Lama
On December 4th of last year, Kunchok Tseten made his final decision. Leaving behind his wife and two children, ages three and four, Tseten strode to the center...
Imperial Contradiction: Australian Foreign Policy and the British Response to the Rise of Japan, 1894-1904
Introduction: Imperial Contradiction Can any nation depend for its defence upon a foreign policy entirely conducted by statesmen responsible to another nation? ...
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