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The Ethiopian Civil War in Tigray

… 1998-2000, and in Somalia in 2006-2009.” TPLF resistance to meaningful change generated popular demonstrations for three …

The Fate of the Kurds

… extended its influence in Syria far beyond Afrin. The Meaning of Kurdistan What is at stake here is our vision of … “us” and who constitutes “them,” and how we make meaning of those distinctions. This question has been key in …
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at a press conference in Holland in 1964.

Asking Martin Luther King…

… “What would Dr. King say about…?” arises in a world still plagued by hunger, poverty, terrorism, and war. It will not …
Billboard of Nursultan Nazarbayev in Kazakhstan, 2015.

Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and the Democratization Shell Game

… political power, while citizens have few opportunities to meaningfully participate in political processes. Authority … and Uzbekistan internalized early that the baseline for meaningful “acceptance” into the international liberal …
A photograph of Dr. David Livingstone from 1857.

Dr. Livingstone, I Presume?: Missionaries, Journalists, Explorers, and Empire

Review of Dr. Livingstone, I Presume?: Missionaries, Journalists, Explorers, and Empire, by Clare Pettitt (Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2007)
… the history of the meeting itself, she also charts how the meaning of this meeting changed in popular culture. She … Pettitt does an admirable job exploring the deeper meaning of the famous handshake at Lake Tanganyika. She does …
Cover of Conspirator: Lenin in Exile by Helen Rappaport.

Conspirator: Lenin in Exile

Review of Conspirator: Lenin in Exile, by Helen Rappaport (New York, NY: Basic Books, 2010)
… The second theme which Rappaport explores is konspiratsiya, meaning "secrecy or stealth in avoiding detection" (47).  …
A Nuclear Power Plant in the Untied Kingdom against a blue sky.

How Green Is the Atom?

The Past–and Future–of Nuclear Energy in the United States
… deconstructed and the site returned to greenfield status (meaning the site is safe for reuse for purposes such as …