Crisis in Iran: Old Revolution, New Revolutionaries
Iran has endured unprecedented crises in recent years, such as the 12-day war with Israel (and the United States), economic deterioration under continued international economic sanctions, and angry streets against the largely repressive rule of the Shia clerical regime. It is a country which, for decades, has been accustomed to operating against overwhelming odds, carries…
Survival Beyond Death: Gendered Violence, Memory, and Identity After the Armenian Genocide
The widespread “atrocities committed against the Armenian people” during the First World War in the Ottoman territories is regarded as the first genocide of the twentieth century. Orchestrated by the Young Turk leadership as part of an aggressive project of “Turkification” of what remained of the centuries old Ottoman empire, it sought either to forcibly…
When War Becomes Profitable: Rethinking Clausewitz in the Age of Hybrid Warfare
The 18th-century Prussian general and military theorist Carl von Clausewitz once famously said that“war is a continuation of politics by other means”. But he would have had little reason to assume that his words would resonate with the currents of global politics in the 21st century. Scholars might argue that war is just a breakdown…
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