Late last week, Iraqi President Barham Salih named former intelligence chief Mustafa al-Kadhimi as the country’s Prime Minister Designate (Reuters: 2020). He is the third man to hold this designation and it is yet to be seen if he can do what his predecessors could not, build enough support in Parliament to officially assume the […]
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Lawmakers in El Salvador are responding to what some are calling an attempted coup against the legislature. This is in response to President Nayib Bukele’s decision to call an atypical weekend session of Parliament, then entering the chambers accompanied by a group of heavily armed soldiers and police officers (Fernandez et al: 2020). This act
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Pro-democracy protestors in Hong Kong celebrated the six-month milestone of mass demonstrations with the largest protests in weeks. The demonstration, organized by the Civil Human Rights Front, included an estimated 800,000 people (BBC: 2019). This rally, unlike many in recent months, remained largely peaceful. 11 people were arrested prior to the event, one with a
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On Saturday, November 16, Sri Lanka held its presidential election, the third since the end of its Civil War in 2009. This election centers around some of the most contentious issues in Sri Lanka today, most importantly security and minority rights. Ethnic tensions and the aftermath of this year’s Easter Sunday bombings weigh heavily on
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Lebanon’s status as a reliable, stable nation in the tumultuous Middle East has been upended in the last several days as the country has been consumed with protest. Protests began last week, catalyzed by the introduction of a series of new taxes, including ones on mobile messaging apps like WhatsApp (Tawil: 2019). As is often
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In the most recent development of the seemingly never-ending Brexit saga, the courts dealt Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his supporters a major setback in their attempt to prorogue Parliament in the leadup to the Brexit deadline. Like all else in the world of Brexit-era British politics, this case exists in the center of a
