For decades, the North Atlantic community operated under the axiom that authoritarian regimes in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) were the only viable bulwarks against regional chaos, Islamist ...
10 years ago, a number of Arab countries from Tunisia in North Africa to Syria in the Middle East, erupted in waves of protests expressing the people’s discontentment with their socio-political and ...
Department of Biochemistry, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37240, United States Center for Structural Biology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37240, United States ...
Nation-states fail because they are convulsed by internal violence and can no longer deliver positive political goods to their inhabitants. Their governments lose legitimacy, and the very nature of ...