This paper analyzes how mainstream parties respond to their niche challengers. We know that vote seeking behavior among mainstream parties…
Natural disasters are increasingly overlapping with ongoing conflicts creating what scholars call dual disasters. However, these disasters also create’windows of…
It is my second blog in the series on graduate education in the USA. I previously wrote an introductory post…
Admission season has already kicked off, and my friends have started asking me questions about the graduate programs in the…
There exist multiple parallel realities that render a single deterministic approach to the analysis of power, politics and society futile….
Every economic activity is based on two components: effort and reward. However, rent is the income derived from possessions. Rentier is…
“One, who regards himself as a member of the Turkish nation, should first of all and in every case, speak…
This (no so-good) policy paper was written as a requirement for POLS 328 – Theories of International Relations course offered by…
Some of the few major issue areas are discussed below. National Identity: Ottoman Empire contained a diverse population with…
Legacy is the selective cluster of events, incidents, memories, structures that have profound impact on the contemporary behavior of an…