How are nationality and sexuality related? What is gained and what is lost when sexuality is framed in terms of identity politics, and what is the role of the nation-state in this process? Though nationality is one of many...
This research examines Georgia’s interest in European Union and NATO membership and evaluates potential routes for ensuring progress and security while reducing Russia’s residual post-Soviet influence. While much available...
This paper explores the cultural construction – or “imagination” – of Russian character in the United States through an investigation of popular American literature, films, TV shows, photographs, magazine articles, speeches,...
Edward Webb. Holding Back The Flood: Regimes of Censorship in the Middle East & North Africa in Comparative Perspective, in Covering the Arab Spring: Middle East in the Media – the Media in the Middle East, ed. Ehab Galal...
The US is the dominant power in the Middle East. Between 1946 and 1991, the US gradually became the dominant power in the region to defend against Soviet influence, maintain regional stability, and ensure the flow of oil from...
Webb, Edward. Islamic Social Democracy? Ennahda's Approach to Economic Development in Tunisia. In Religious Activism in the Global Economy: Promoting, Reforming, or Resisting Neoliberal Globalization, edited by Sabine...
Since 1991 Kazakhstan has sought national security through economic growth and energy security fostered on its immense wealth of oil, natural gas, and other natural resources. Simultaneously Kazakhstan seeks to position itself...
This paper analyzes one of the New York Police Department’s (“NYPD”) signature international endeavors: the International Liaison Program (“ILP”). It focuses on the political and legal bases for creating and maintaining the...
On January 1, 2009, the fears of many European policymakers were confirmed. After a payment dispute could not be resolved, Russia shut off natural gas supplies to Ukraine, leading to widespread gas disruptions across Europe....