Governments around the world are increasingly recognizing the power of problem-oriented governance as a way to address complex public…
The promise of American democracy is at greater risk than at any time since the 1930s. Among the most important factors of America’s…
Many view civil wars as violent contests between armed combatants. But history shows that community groups, businesses, NGOs, local…
“One August afternoon, on the shoreline of the Kamchatka peninsula at the northeastern edge of Russia, two sisters, eight and eleven, go…
In just about three months, 196 active-duty and retired officers are scheduled to go on trial in Turkey, charged with plotting in 2003 to…
“Turkish democracy is at a turning point,” Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced after winning a crucial vote in a referendum to…
President Obama announced recently with much fanfare that the number of U.S. troops in Iraq will be down to 50,000 by the end of August.…
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…
For the last three years Turkey has been gripped by an extraordinary series of legal proceedings revolving around an alleged conspiracy to…
The Obama administration will tout "New START" as a significant step toward the president's vision of a world free of nuclear weapons.…