The 20 th century was defined by the clash between democracy and fascism, a struggle that created uncertainty about the survival of human freedom and left millions dead. Given the horrors of that experience, one might expect the world to reject the spirit ...
A recent surge of rallies and demonstrations – from the March for Life to March for Our Lives and Black Lives Matter to Blue Lives Matter – have erupted across major US cities. News of this activism has filtered through traditional media networks, social ...
Since its birth seventy years ago, Pakistan has grown to become an important player on the global stage, as a result of its geostrategic position, youthful demographic, and nuclear weapons capability. Yet, fractured relations with India and political pola ...
While some Chicago-area classrooms are responding to a progressively connected and globalized world, others are limited by a lack of resources and funding. Study abroad opportunities and programs such as the Illinois Global Scholar Certification and the S ...
Avoiding war, while securing nation’s vast global interests, is a perennial challenge for any United States president. This is especially true in today’s fraught international climate, when there are no shortage of flash points that could rapidly draw the ...
As 32 nations prepare to battle it out across Russia this summer for the greatest prize in world sport, at home, 60 teams will go head to head at Buddy Guy’s Legends in the ultimate test of global affairs knowledge. Celebrate the end of the YP programming ...
https://democracyjournal.org/magazine/48/the-liberal-order-isnt-coming-back-what... March 1, 2018 DemocracyPolicy & PoliticsPolicy & Politics Bruce Jentleson ...
Since the end of the Cold War the United States has sought to remake the world in its own image. To this end successive administrations have promoted the concept of liberal hegemony, based around the principles of democracy, human rights, free trade, and ...
Identity has become a defining—and divisive—political concept around the world. In recent years appeals to group identity have underpinned the election of Donald Trump, the success of the Brexit “leave” campaign, the rise of politicized Islam and anti-imm ...
Proponents of globalization promised a world of shared prosperity and universal liberal values. But the political upheavals of recent years have been driven by a sense that, for many in the West, globalization failed to deliver. Rising inequality, rapid s ...
