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A civic space that meaningfully engages civil society with policymakers can contribute to improved public policy decisions. This article looks at some of the factors that affect a civic...

Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them. Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, Yemenite Jews walking to Aden, the site of a reception camp, ahead of their emigration to Israel, 1949. (Kluger Zoltan/Israeli National Photo Archive/public domain) A heated debate has arisen in the last decade as to whether the contemporary anti-Zionism of progressive groups such as the BDS m...

Alexei Navalny leads Russians in a historic battle against arbitrary rule By (0) Members of the local Russian community hold a demonstration in support of jailed opposition leader Alexi Navalny at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles on February 6. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo Central to these well-organized protests is Russia's opposition leader, Alexei Navalny. His courageous actions and words have inspired demonstrators to believe that they can change Russia. Advertisement A normal country A lawyer, Navalny became a prominent regime critic a decade ago, when he created the A...

Assembling the Moral Puzzle – Just War Tradition and Karabakh By Hans Gutbrod - 25 February 2021 Hans Gutbrod examines the recent Nagorno-Karabakh conflict through the just war tradition and asks whether it is still useful for unpicking modern conflicts.  Last fall saw an intense conflict around Nagorno-Karabakh. Next to heavy fighting on the ground, Armenians and Azerbaijanis also clashed on social media. This clash was often couched in moral terms. The ensuing discussion, however, was mostly fragmented, resembling a ‘heap of broken images’, as T.S. Eliot put it in his postwar poem....

A normal country A lawyer, Navalny became a prominent regime critic a decade ago, when he created the Anti-Corruption Foundation and ran for mayor of Moscow. Funded by Russian donors, his national foundation collects stories of government corruption and produces YouTube videos that document, with drone footage, the secret luxury properties of government officials. Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny stands inside a glass cell during a district court hearing in Moscow on Feb. 20. Sefa Karacan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Navalny is not a Moscow flash in the ...