Eight Observations from the Greek Election (Part 2)
The Euro Strikes Back! I devoted the first part of this post (the first four observations) to a discussion of the election results. In this second part, I explore the consequences of the electoral...
View ArticleDoes Russia Provide Obama Political Cover for Syria?
Practitioners and foreign policy experts are vehemently debating the intentions behind Russia’s recent campaign to make explicit its support of Syria and the regime of its embattled ruler, Bashar...
View ArticleRussia the Whipping Boy
Last week, I wrote about how Russian support for Syria has provided the Obama administration with expedient domestic and international cover for their preferred nonintervention policy. Russia expert...
View ArticleDommage for Catalonia: Identity and Economic Crisis
Since the beginning of the Euro crisis, there has been a substantial amount of analysis, and more than a bit of hand-wringing, over the (arguably counterproductive) resurgence of nationalism among the...
View ArticleElection’s Outcome is Huge News for Georgian Democracy
By Daniel F. Wollrich On October 1, Georgia held parliamentary elections that were sure to be a victory for President Mikheil Saakashvili’s United National Movement party. Except they weren’t. In fact,...
View ArticleDavid Cameron and Centrifugal Crises
British Prime Minister David Cameron made waves in late January when he announced plans to hold a referendum on the U.K.’s continued membership in the European Union. Should the Conservatives win...
View ArticleWill the Gezi Protests Change Politics in Turkey?
Nearly a week ago, on 28th May, the first people gathered at Gezi Park, Istanbul, to protest the demolition of the park to accommodate a shopping mall and a replica of an Ottoman-era barracks. However,...
View ArticleTaksim: The Public’s Square
(Editor’s note: The following is a guest contribution by Jonathan Endelman, PhD student in Sociology at Yale University) Ostensibly, the protests in Turkey began after the Prime Minister Recep Tayyip...
View ArticleBringing the State Back In (to the discussion on redistribution and innovation)
In recent months, the New York Times has published a series of opinion pieces that read like an abbreviated syllabus in comparative political economy. An analytic piece from late April chronicling the...
View ArticleLet’s Not Forget the Good News: Croatia Joins the EU
With the ongoing conflict in Syria, Southern Europe’s financial difficulties, growing social unrest in Turkey and Egypt, and much else, it seems that “good news” often gets too little attention. Less...
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