From 7 October 2023 to 7 June 2024, the Crowd Counting Consortium recorded nearly 12,400 pro-Palestine protests and over 2,000 pro-Israel…
With a foreign policy of restraint, the U.S. would seek to have normal relations with all countries in the Middle East, instead of having "…
Collective vigilantism, group violence to punish perceived offenses to a community, is both global and common in the contemporary world. It…
The international standing of the United States has taken a serious hit over the past four years. Former U.S. President Donald Trump’s…
Times of strain often lead to explosions of religiosity, as people turn to faith as a balm against misfortune. The coronavirus pandemic,…
In this paper, I respond to the editors request that I look back on the concept of soft power that I first published in 1990. I describe my…
What are the social and political consequences of poor state governance and low state legitimacy? Under what conditions does lynching –…
By the time of his assassination in 1963, John F. Kennedy stood at the helm of the greatest power the world had ever seen, a booming…
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This month, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan reconsecrated the Hagia Sophia — a UNESCO world heritage site and museum — as a house of…