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Uriel
Dec 16, 20173 min read
Self-Determination, Redux? Russia's Crimea and the Global Crisis of Legitimacy
The West could have held the upper moral hand in the Crimean crisis, but chose not to. In his annexation speech (March 18, 2014),...
Uriel
Dec 16, 20175 min read
A Rebellious Greengrocer: The Suicide that Kindled the Arab Spring
When the leader of Czechoslovakia’s 1989 “Velvet Revolution” and its former president, Vaclav Havel died last month, many eulogies were...
Uriel
Dec 16, 20175 min read
What Is the Arab Third Estate? Nationalism in the Arab Spring
On July 1, 1798, just before disembarking on the shores of Alexandria — in what is often depicted as the moment when the West, indeed ...
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