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“In a class on comparative perspectives on genocide, we could not pretend this was not happening.”

Staff reportThe annual Wm. T. (Bill) Robinson III Institute for Religious Liberty will be held at Thomas More University tonight at 7 p.m. in Steigerwald Hall.The institute celebrates religiou

In this revised 2021 paper Verne Harris offers an interpretation of what he calls parallel Palestinian and South African struggles for decolonisation. He uses the lens pr

From the blog of Bonnie K. Goodman at The Times of Israel

Aufheben's excellent account of the development and transformation of China and the Chinese working class from the time of Mao until today.

Democratic socialist romantics often justify their views by lifting up the Norwegian system and disregarding socialist-run states.

The struggle in Israel-Palestine lacks a sense of inclusivity, like in South Africa, that aims to take over and transform the state into a democracy for all its citizens.

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The authoritarian populist tendencies of an excessive personalisation of power, curtailment of civil liberties, circumvention of the rule of law, and increasing militarisation of state apparatus have exacerbated Sri Lanka’s lurch towards illiberal democracy, thereby precipitating the grave economic and humanitarian crises.

Kerala suffers less from clientelism, authoritarianism, and neo-liberalism than many other parts of the world, but it is affected by the universal dilemma of how to unify numerous actors and build democratic links between the local, the wider government, and the economy. This article’s comparative insights indicate that the state requires democratic partnership governance to