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Analyses

For decades, Latin America’s authoritarian regimes were seen as a right-wing phenomenon, with Cuba as the lone exception — a dictatorship born not from a betrayal of democracy, but of revolution. As Washington’s embargo returns to the headlines, this piece asks what that framing has long obscured: that Cuba has never had just one embargo, but two.

Religion
What is the Geopolitics of Religions?
Manlio Graziano 12 March 2018

Religions are reemerging in the social, political, and economic spheres, in the context of the current crisis of the nation-state, illustrating the limits of secular institutions and ideologies.
International Affairs, Migrations
Is the Caliphate really over? The migration of ISIS militants
Ilaria Romano 7 March 2018

Is Daesh really over? Unfortunately not, and the organization can take advantage of the chaotic situations in both Iraq and Syria.
International Affairs
“The Indian Gulf”: Modi’s Visit in the UAE and Oman
Eleonora Ardemagni 27 February 2018

Divided and united by the sea: the strategic partnership between the Arab Gulf states and India is on the rise, underscored by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent visit to the United Arab Emirates and Oman.
Human Rights
Turkey: life sentence for three journalists. The rule of law is dead
Fazila Mat 20 February 2018

The first aggravated life sentences for journalists since the failed coup of July 15, 2016 have been handed down in Turkey.
International Affairs
Erdoğan in Italy continues his “European renaissance tour”
Cristoforo Spinella 7 February 2018

Before embarking on his European ‘renaissance tour’ Erdoğan had expressed his doctrine rather clearly, stating that, “we must reduce the number of our enemies and increase that of our friends.”
International Affairs
Egypt’s presidential election: more selection than election
Gianni Del Panta 30 January 2018

Egypt is expected to hold new presidential elections in less than eight weeks. Despite this, the list of presidential hopefuls remained unclear until early afternoon of January 29 – that is, the real last hours of the last day to submit the required paperwork to the National Elections Authority to be allowed to run in the electoral competition.
Religion
Why Muslims still feel second-class citizens in today’s India?
Mujibur Rehman 25 January 2018

Known for his work on identity politics and political economy, Dr. Rehman most recently published ‘Communalism in postcolonial India′, which addresses the rise of religious fundamentalism in India. In Bonn to lecture on cow vigilantism, he spoke to Roma Rajpal Weiss about the situation of the sub-continent’s Muslim minority.
Political Theory, Society
Assessing the Politics of Fear and Power
in Contemporary Russia
Branislav Radeljić 11 January 2018

The number of arguments and explanations dealing with post-Soviet Russia is continuously increasing. Scholars, journalists and policy-makers are all obsessed with its trajectory and, even more specifically, the role of Vladimir Putin.
International Affairs
In the Islamic world’s leadership void,
Erdoğan candidates as leader of the streets
Cristoforo Spinella 5 January 2018

In the Islamic world’s leadership void, concentrated above all on fratricidal struggles and caught off-guard by Donald Trump’s leap forward – or perhaps having allowed itself to be taken by surprise – Recep Tayyip Erdoğan aims to become the leader.
International Affairs, Society
Mass protests in Iran: it’s about 40 years of domestic failure
Ramin Jahanbegloo 2 January 2018

Recent spontaneous demonstrations in Iran have startled most observers around the world. A social unrest which started because of worsening economic circumstances and the failure of the government to keep its economic promises and contain inflation and price rises and issues of that nature has now turned into a general political dissent around the country.