Why Did the Protest Movements Fail in Iran and Succeed in the Arab Spring?
May 3, 2013 Dr. Ali Banuazizi, Boston College The 2011 revolutions in the Arab world and the popular uprising in Iran following a hotly contested presidential election in June of 2009 had many common features, but dramatically different outcomes. While in the Arab...
The Revolution Continues: Egypt’s Activists and their Struggle for Bread, Freedom and Social Justice
April 19, 2013 Dr. Nivien Saleh, Thunderbird School of Global Management When Egypt’s population rose up in January 2011, pundits and some academics quickly determined that Twitter and Facebook had liberated the people from dictatorship. With two years hindsight, how...German Economic Model: Myths, Realities and Transferability
March 22, 2013 – Karl-Matthias Klause Embassy of Germany in U.S. The German economic model as developed since World War II has not only provided unparalleled prosperity and security for German and European Union citizens. It has also done so while incorporating...
Public Anxiety, Protest and Political Violence in 21st Century America
March 8, 2013 Dr. Adam Garfinkle, The American Interest Magazine Three discrete sources of trouble–the shocks of globalization and automation, political institutional dysfunction and plutocratic parasitism–have combined to plunge the American future into...
The Global Cave Wilderness: Our Underground World Heritage
Dr. Penelope Boston, New Mexico Tech The international community of cave explorers, scientists, and conservationists are working diligently to protect and understand the amazing hidden wildland treasures that are out of site underneath our feet. These amazing...
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