In this year’s Iranian parliamentary elections, that took place in February and resulted in the victory of the hard-liners, the voter turnout was 42.6% (the lowest since the 1979 revolution with the rate as little as about 25% in the capital). This record low rate was a normal prognosis of the current political setting in Iran. First, there is a big...
In 2016 oxford dictionary had chosen the word post-truth as the word of the year. That move was quite understandable given that post-truth was the buzzword of the international political community at that time, with Brexit referendum and the rise of trump. In 2016 it was spectacular how post-truth became one of the most useful...
The term American exceptionalism had surfaced and re-surfaced frequently in political debates about the American politics. Notwithstanding varying definitions and conceptualization it had a constant component of it that it referred to the exceptionalism of the American case vis-vis other nations. However, America under trump has a different form of that exceptionalism however, vis-à-vis America...
Throughout the history of the American mediation in peace talks between the Israelis and the Palestinians, the United States had often leaned in one way or another towards Israel’s wants at the expense of the Palestinian side. Because of the world’s current political reality, the Palestinians had long accepted this playbook with a grain of...
[Opinion piece] Around the year 100 AD, the Roman satirical poet Juvenal, described the then current affairs of the Roman populace by giving up on their historical birthright for political involvement and caring only for Panem et Circenses (Bread and Circuses). Juvenal was in fact describing his dissent for the declining heroism of contemporary Romans....
I. Historical Flashback Since 1955, Sudan has tried to trot out its tremendous terrains and ethnic contrasts. Through its capital, Khartoum, the state employed stringent force to manage the surrounding zones and control any sort of resistance or revolt. But Sudan’s contemporary history is also marked with several military overthrows, since 1958. The final one came in 1985, with Omar al-Bashir’s alliance of the military...
Currently there are two statemen claiming to be the legitimate president of Venezuela, each with his distinctive arsenal of domestic as well as international support and recognition. On the one hand, there is the incumbent president Nicolás Maduro, clinging to power after a widely disputed presidential elections in 2018. He ruled since 2013 as the...
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