List of Political Science articles
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GettyImages-585829042 crop Here’s How Venezuela Can Move Forward
It’s time for the leaders of the Caracas government and its opponents to begin negotiating a way back from the abyss.
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GettyImages-536710788 crop Let It Go
Ukraine’s occupied Donbass region is a pointless burden. It’s time for Kiev to accept that it’s better off without it.
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GettyImages-519982870 cropped Tunisia’s War on Islam
Is overzealous prosecution of the war on terror contributing to radicalization?
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Aliriza_judge A Verdict on Change
This ambitious young judge wants to change Tunisia’s justice system. But he still has to type out his own verdicts.
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Ghribi_storyteller The Storyteller
Shukrii Mabkhout is not just a novelist — he's the biographer of modern Tunisia.
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Ghribi_bensalem Missing the Old Days
Tunisia is a democracy. Here’s a man who still mourns for the old regime.
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GettyImages-586396172 crop The Good News From Brazil
It's always the problems that get the headlines. But if you look under the surface, you'll see that the rule of law is taking shape.
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Tunisians gather outside the governorate's offices during protests after the death of an unemployed man in the central city of Kasserine on January 20, 2016. Tunisian police fired tear gas and water cannon to disperse hundreds of job-seeking demonstrators in the impoverished town of Kasserine, in a second day of protests. The demonstrators had gathered outside the governorate's offices demanding a solution to the region's dire unemployment before heading towards the town centre, as small groups set up roadblocks with burning tyres. / AFP / MOHAMED KHALIL (Photo credit should read MOHAMED KHALIL/AFP/Getty Images) Crisis of Governance: Local Edition
In many ways, democratic Tunisia remains just as centralized as it was before the revolution. And that’s a big problem for the mayor of Kasserine.
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A man waves the Amazigh flag as thousands of mourners attend the funeral procession and burial of Hocine Ait-Ahmed, one of the fathers of Algeria's struggle for independence and a key opposition figure, in the Algerian village of Ait Ahmed on January 1, 2016. Ait-Ahmed's remains arrived in Algiers from Switzerland, where he died at the age of 89, for a state funeral the previous day before being transferred to his home village for his burial. The Amazighs, or Berbers, are the ethnicity indigenous to North Africa west of the Nile Valley. / AFP / FAROUK BATICHE (Photo credit should read FAROUK BATICHE/AFP/Getty Images) Not Arab, and Proud of It
Tunisia’s long-suppressed Amazigh minority is finding its voice for the first time in years.
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DJERBA, TUNISIA - JUNE 30: A general view of an abandoned hotel on June 30, 2016 in Djerba, Tunisia. Before the 2011 revolution, tourism in Tunisia accounted for approximately 7% of the countries GDP. The two 2015 terrorist attacks at the Bardo Museum and Sousse Beach saw tourism numbers plummet even further forcing hotels to close and many tourism and hospitality workers to lose their jobs. (Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images) The Tourism Crash
Terrorist attacks have left Tunisia’s tourism sector reeling—but its problems actually go much deeper.
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Ghribi_ecological El Khadra Still Can’t Breathe
This devastated community has been calling for help for years. Even in the new Tunisia, no one’s listening.
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GettyImages-587164090 crop Give Burma a Chance
No, the country's remarkable democratic transition hasn't been perfect. But its critics should keep in mind how much has already been accomplished.
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Stambeli performance Tunisia’s Dying Jazz
New freedoms have brought art and religion into conflict, threatening to crush a tradition trapped in the middle.
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Supporters of Tunisia's Islamist Ennahdha Party wearing the national and party flags arrive on May 20, 2016 to attend the opening of Ennahdha's three-day congress in Tunis. Thousands of people attended the opening ceremony of the congress -- the first since 2012 -- held at a sports complex in Rades, south of the capital Tunis, amid heavy police security. / AFP / FETHI BELAID (Photo credit should read FETHI BELAID/AFP/Getty Images) The Mainstreaming of Tunisia’s Islamists
The Ennahda Party’s latest moves put its political astuteness on show once again.
