Edging toward the sweet spot of new-century governance
Enter the info-state. The info-state – today one of a growing number...
Nader Hashemi
Shortly after the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak, Aluf Benn, the editor-in-chief of Haaretz, wrote a column entitled:...
Tags: Akbar S. Ahmed, Alon Ben-Meir, Arab Spring, Ayatollah Sistani, Bahrain, civil liberties, democracy, Egypt, future of the Middle East, Gaddafi, Global Brief, Hezbollah, Hosni Mubarak, Iran, Israël, Joel Beinin, Kuwait, Middle East peace, Nader Hashemi, Rebecca C. Lunnon, Saeb Kasm, Stanford University, Syria
The future may not always be democratic, but where and when countries do democratize, the pressures for federalization may...
Noam Chomsky
… based on the following: religion is a personal matter; politics is a public concern. They should be divorced,...
Tags: Afghanistan, church-state, Dale Turner, democracy, fanaticism, genocide, Guy Ben-Porat, Indigenous people, Israël, liberal freedoms, Noam Chomsky, religion, religion and politics, religious fundamentalism, Said T. Jawad, secular fundamentalism, secularists, theocracy, Yassine Al Haj Saleh
In a 2009 interview with GB, Louise Arbour, former UN Human Rights Commissioner and current President and CEO of the International...
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Dr. Shirin Ebadi
…play a defining role in instigating peace in the Middle East and moving the region forward toward democracy...
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Meditations on Values, the State and the Crooked Timber of Humanity
The real world has never been kind to political theory....
Tags: 21st century integration, authoritarian, capitalist, citizenship, civil contract, crooked timber of humanity, democracy, democratic process, Frencha and English Canada, GDP, Global Brief, Hegel, inequality between nations, John Rawls, liberal states, Mark Kingwell, neutrality, philosophy, political discourse, Quebec society, technology, transational theories
A majestic region-wide union may well transform the strategic calculus of the sceptics and the spoilers
Victor Hugo famously...
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