The coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak that broke out in Wuhan, China, in December and has taken over the entire world, has been at the top of the global agenda for months. However, just like during earthquakes and other disasters, refugees always seem to be forgotten. The...
Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks who took refuge for nearly seven years in Ecuador's Embassy in London, was arrested by British police in April. British authorities expressed that the asylum previously granted to Assange by Ecuador was revoked by Ecuador and that the London...
Samuel P. Huntington's famous thesis entitled "The Clash of Civilizations" published in Foreign Affairs magazine in 1993 attracted a great deal of attention – as in George F. Kennan's article titled "The Sources of Soviet Conduct" after World War II and especially during the Cold...
Before World War II, a state's violation of the fundamental rights and freedoms of its own citizens was seen as a matter of domestic legal order that concerned only the nation-state and its sovereignty. Indeed, in that period the fundamental rights and freedoms of...
The Tunisian Hayreddin Pasha, a distinguished Ottoman statesmen and intellectual in the late 19th century, was right when he warned the Ottoman Empire of the impending era of multinational corporations. Consequently the empire couldn't adapt its policies and became a victim of economic regression and...
Today, almost every society is ruled by a written or an unwritten constitution, both of which, in general, reflect the sociological state of the society and define the power limitations of its ruling government. This sociological structure or power limitation appears in different forms among...
The notions of East and West were first literally described as geographical directions, but today in the social sciences they are mostly used to depict the world's two great different civilizations. There is some simplification here, but it is useful as a starting point. These...
The question of why some nations are economically or politically more successful compared to others can be explained by looking at how inclusionary and exploitative their economic and political institutions are. The exploitative institutions, which are generally built by hegemonic nations on the territories of...
In the midst of imperial wars and years of deadly conflict between outlawed groups, the Mesopotamian and Anatolian lands have also found themselves exploited by smugglers, who pillage their ancient assets to sell to collectors around the worldHistorical and cultural assets, as the common heritage...
Fictional characters help us to understand the nature of the societies that they belong to. Accordingly, the stories of Hayy ibn Yaqdhan and Robinson Crusoe, written many years ago, are still worth considering when we look at why the East and West differ in dealing...