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Conflict and Political Community: In Conversation with Jan-Werner Müller
Professor Jan-Werner Müller is the Roger Williams Straus Professor of Social Sciences and Professor of Politics at Princeton University....
Benjamin Keener
26 min read
The Syrian Conflict: The Myth of Containment and the Realities of Accountability
How and why the international community failed Syria One of the most unforgiving aspects of the Syrian Conflict is the fact that its...
Ammar Abdulhamid
19 min read
Defending a Navy Nurse in Guantanamo Bay: In Conversation with Ronald W Meister
Ronald W Meister is a distinguished legal professional serving as Senior Counsel at Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman in New York City. Holding...
Nadia Jahnecke
13 min read
Guantanamo Bay and the Court of Public Opinion: In Conversation with Clive Stafford Smith
Clive Stafford Smith is a British human rights lawyer who has spent his career working against the death penalty in the United States,...
Nadia Jahnecke
19 min read
How US Judges Failed the Rule of Law and Justice: In Conversation with Thomas B Wilner
Thomas B Wilner is the managing partner of Shearman & Sterling's International Trade and Global Relations Practice. In addition to this,...
Nadia Jahnecke
26 min read
The Mauritanian Speaks: In Conversation with Mohamedou Ould Slahi
Mohamedou Ould Slahi was detained at the inhumane Guantanamo Bay 'Detention Camp' for 14 years without charge. For 14 years, Mohamedou...
Nadia Jahnecke
21 min read
The War on Terror’s Obstruction of Justice: In Conversation with Nancy Hollander
Nancy Hollander is an internationally recognized criminal defense lawyer from the Albuquerque, New Mexico, firm of Freedman Boyd...
Nadia Jahnecke
26 min read
A Flawed Democracy
Each year, The Economist publishes a Democracy Index. The 2022 edition listed 167 countries ranked on metrics of five dimensions:...
John Rennie Short
21 min read
The Next Civil War: In Conversation with Stephen Marche
Stephen Marche is a novelist, essayist and cultural commentator. He is the author of half a dozen books and has written opinion pieces...
Charlotte Friesen
6 min read
The Claim of Judicial Finality in the United States: A Popular Theory that Lacks Evidence
In law schools as well as political science and history classes, students are generally taught that when the Supreme Court decides a...
Louis Fisher
34 min read
New Technology, Ancient Battle
Since the detection of massive Russian interference in the 2016 American presidential election, there has been a morass of studies...
Askold Krushelnycky
11 min read
Politicising the Apolitical: Abstract Expressionism and the Cold War
Abstract Expressionism emerged amid a tense post-war climate, as a new genre of art that seemed so devoid of representational form or...
Mina Polo
10 min read
Americanitis: Architecture, Mass Media, White Supremacy
The origins and definition of the word ‘Americanitis’ are opaque at best. It is generally believed to have appeared in medical journals...
Nicolas Canal Tinius
15 min read
Ewell in the East (or Not): A Chinese Perspective on Racism in Music Studies
1. Introduction Music theory is white. —Philip Ewell Thus begins Philip Ewell’s article ‘Music Theory and the White Racial Frame’.[1] His...
David Chu
13 min read
We the People? The Conservative National Identity and its Role in American Political Polarisation
Identity drives human agency. Who we consider ourselves and the groups we are part of determines the choices we make. This principle is...
Christopher George
13 min read
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