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Politics of China’s Engagement with Africa, Promoting Rentierism?
Vahid Nick Pay and Elemchi Nwosu, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/03068374.2020.1762358 Abstract: This paper seeks to explore the political implications of China’s economic relationship with Africa using the […]
Arctic Diplomacy: A Theoretical Evaluation of Russian Foreign Policy in the High North
By Harry Gray Calvo and Vahid Nick Pay Russian Politics, Brill 5 (2020) 105-130; doi:10.30965/24518921-00501005 International interest in the Arctic is heating up along with […]
Comparative Constitutionalism: Challenges of Constitutional Sovereignty in Iran and Iraq
Abstract Constitutionalism has more than a century of history in the Muslim world. More recently, Iran and Iraq, two countries with populations comprised of Shi’a […]
Constitutional Rights and Liberties in the Islamic Republic: A Critical Review
Journal of Social Sciences DOI: 10.25079/ukhjss.v1n1y2017.pp34-45 This study is aimed at analyzing aspects of individual rights and liberties in theocratic systems by examining the Iranian […]
Why the Destruction of Kawa’s Statue in Afrin Matters
Why the Destruction of Kawa’s Statue in Afrin Matters – Polity As Turkish troops and their jihadist proxies in the Free Syrian Army (FSA) declare […]
Beneath the Surface of the Kurdistan Independence Referendum
DOI: 10.25079/ukhjss.v1n1y2017 Abstract This article aims at providing an alternative view to the prevailing narratives on the timing, the underpinning reasons and actual outcomes of […]
Why Should West Sustain a Kurdish Dream
The news from Iraq has been grim of late, nonetheless in light of the recent success of the Kurdish forces over the fundamentalists of the […]
Europe’s Ethical Challenges
Ethical challenges of keeping the poor and the refugees out of one’s own lawn: from donating the unsold supermarkets’ food to Europe’s pressing question of […]
The Evolution of God’s Magic Wand
Pope Francis’s recent endorsement of the Big-Bang Theory and the affirmation that “God is not a magician with a magic wand” could well sign the transformation of […]
Should the West Support the Independence of Kurdistan?
As Western diplomacy in the Middle East appears to be doomed to a vicious circle of blunders for over a century, the upcoming Kurdistan’s consultative […]
Populism: Political Race to the Bottom in the Era of “Alternative Facts”
Texts, Maison Burganov, Moscow, ISSN: 2294-8902no. 1 (2017): 97-100 Abstract Most observers have interpreted the Brexit and the stunning election of Donald Trump to the White […]