The Middle East is going through an unprecedented upheaval, one which many of its
participants and keenest observers sincerely hope will…
In many countries, polling day ends with disputes about ballot-box fraud, corruption, and flawed registers. Which claims are accurate? And…
Amid the shock, grief and anger, what can we learn? Nicholas Burns dissects this week's Boston Marathon bombings.
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Media outlets in multiparty electoral systems tend to report on a wider range of policy issues than media in two-party systems. They thus…
The recent revolutions in Libya and Syria offer a bitter lesson: to generate outside intervention against a dictator, armed rebellion is…
“Turkish democracy is at a turning point,” Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced after winning a crucial vote in a referendum to…
I no longer recognize Turkey, the country where I was raised and spend most of my time when I am not teaching in the U.S.
It wasn't so…
The Cold War dominated world affairs during the half century following World War II. It ended in victory for the United States, yet it was…
How did the conflict between Vietnamese nationalists and French colonial rulers erupt into a major Cold War struggle between communism and…