A failed state is one in which the central government has lost effective control and can no longer fulfill the basic functions of sovereignty. Unlike stable states, it cannot maintain a monopoly on ...
Jessica Stern, research professor at Boston University’s Pardee School of Global Studies, is coauthor, with J.M. Berger, of ISIS: The State of Terror. The French ...
In his “ Questions For One-Staters” Ziad Asali points out some of the many problems associated with a one-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The most obvious of these, of course, is ...
Khaled Fahmy, In Quest of Justice: Islamic Law and Forensic Medicine in Modern Egypt, Oakland: University of California Press, 2018. Reviewed by Adam Sabra Khaled Fahmy’s fascinating and important new ...
The central thesis of this short book is that developing countries will naturally -- and sensibly -- rely on state leadership in economic development. Their success depends not on getting rid of that ...
Coming up on today's show: French voters went to the polls on Sunday and elected Emmanuel Macron as their new president. At 39 years old, Macron is the youngest French leader since Napoleon, and his ...
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The French strikes on Islamic State positions following the Paris attacks point up the peculiar dual nature of this protean Salafi jihadist organization, whose ruthlessness, ability to capture and ...
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