Global Dialogues: All Articles

Occupy Gezi: Reclaiming the Commons and the Collapse of Erdogan’s Domestic Policies
06/19/2013 — Hakan Topal
A Letter on the Brazilian Protests
06/18/2013 — Fernanda Canofre dos Santos
Syria: Despair, Tragedy and Hope
06/14/2013 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Turkey and Syria: On the Bankruptcy of Neo-Ottomanist Foreign Policy
06/04/2013 — Hakan Topal
When a Park Is More than The Sum of its Trees: Protests in Turkey
06/02/2013 — Meral Ugur Cinar
They’re Rioting in Sweden (and in France and in Great Britain)
05/31/2013 — Timo Lyyra
Economic Shock Therapy, Italian style: Reflections on the 2012 Earthquake
05/30/2013 — Andrea Hajek
John Dewey in China
05/22/2013 — Mark Frazier
Adam Michnik on The Church: The Opening of a Polish Dialogue
05/06/2013 — Helena Chmielewska-Szlajfer
No Exit? Israel – Palestine
05/03/2013 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
The Israeli Future? A View From Both Sides of the Wall
04/30/2013 — Nahed Habiballah
Aristide Zolberg, June 14, 1931 – April 12, 2013
04/26/2013 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
My Arrest in Poland and the Ironies of Consequence
04/18/2013 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Margaret Thatcher: Strokes of Genius or Strokes of Luck?
04/12/2013 — Lukasz Pawlowski
Political Repression in Poland: Ewa Wójciak and the Eighth Day Theater
04/10/2013 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Is There an Israeli Future? Post-Election Reflections on Minister Lapid, “Riki Cohen from Hadera” and the Pursuit of a Normal Society
04/05/2013 — Michael Weinman
Tighten or Stimulate? British v. American Economics
04/01/2013 — Lukasz Pawlowski
Police Repression in Italy and the Affective Ecology of Victims’ Families
03/25/2013 — Andrea Hajek
Masahiro Sasaki and the Etiquette of Reconciliation
03/22/2013 — David Janes
Speech Deficits: A Young ‘Other’ and his Mother in Berlin
03/20/2013 — Irit Dekel
Memories of Identities, Identities of Memory
03/06/2013 — Christiane Wilke
The President and the Private, and the Atomic Bomb: Responding to Clifton Truman Daniel’s Mission to Japan
03/01/2013 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Democratic Development in South Africa? Mamphela Ramphele’s New Party
02/28/2013 — Daryl Glaser
Michnik Attacked: The Polish Culture War Escalates
02/26/2013 — Tomasz Kitlinski
The Upcoming Italian Elections and the Seamy Side of Satire
02/22/2013 — Andrea Hajek
Greece in Crisis: A Recent Interview
02/06/2013 — Despina Lalaki
Refugees in Polish Towns
01/30/2013 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Culture Shutdown? A Plea for Museums, Galleries, and Libraries in Bosnia and Herzegovina
01/28/2013 — Susan C. Pearce
21 Notes on Poland’s Culture Wars, Part 2 (12-21)
01/16/2013 — Tomasz Kitlinski
21 Notes on Poland’s Culture Wars, Part 1 (1- 11)
01/15/2013 — Tomasz Kitlinski
Mario Monti’s Midway: A Civic Choice in the Italian Elections?
01/14/2013 — Andrea Hajek
The Fiscal Cliff: American Follies Seen from Abroad
01/10/2013 — Lukasz Pawlowski
A Mission of Reconciliation: Honoring the Victims of the Atomic Bomb
01/09/2013 — Clifton Truman Daniel
Japan’s Disappointment Election
12/19/2012 — Kenneth Mori McElwain
The Phantom of Subversive Violence in Italy
12/11/2012 — Andrea Hajek
Putting World War II to “Rest?” Opening a Dialogue about Northeast Asia
12/05/2012 — David Janes
An American in Paris: Thinking about France, Taxes and the Good Life
11/29/2012 — James M. Jasper
President Obama Goes to Asia: The View of a Pole in Oxford
11/27/2012 — Lukasz Pawlowski
Social Media and Protest in the Age of Globalization
11/26/2012 — Andrea Hajek
Beyond the West: A Critical Response to Professor Challand’s Approach to the Arab Transformations
11/13/2012 — Alexander Nachman
European Memory vs. European History II: The Limits of Trauma and Nostalgia
10/29/2012 — Siobhan Kattago
European Memory vs. European History: A Critical View From Estonia
10/26/2012 — Siobhan Kattago
Omar Khadr’s Canadian Homecoming
10/19/2012 — Christiane Wilke
Italy: Still the Sick Man of Europe
10/10/2012 — Andrea Hajek
On Cultural Freedom: An Exploration of Academic Life in Israel, Pakistan and the U.S.
09/28/2012 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Academic Freedom Attacked in Israel
09/25/2012 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
The Truth in Germany – from University to Euro
09/20/2012 — Douglas Voigt
Performing Human Rights: Pussy Riot vs. the Pseudo Religious, Homophobic, Misogynists of Eastern Europe
09/17/2012 — Tomasz Kitlinski
Holland Playing Safe: Pro-EU Parties Win the Dutch Elections
09/14/2012 — Andrea Hajek
The Marikana Strike Killings, South Africa
09/13/2012 — Daryl Glaser
Irena Sendler and Giorgio Perlasca: Saving 2500 Children and Thousands of Families from the Holocaust
09/10/2012 — Anna Lisa Tota
Archbishop Tutu v. Tony Blair
09/07/2012 — Shireen Hassim
Pussy Riot vs. The Pseudo Religious of Eastern Europe
09/04/2012 — Tomasz Kitlinski
Woodstock in Poland, 2012
08/31/2012 — Helena Chmielewska-Szlajfer
Miloslav (Milan) Petrusek (1936 – 2012)
08/29/2012 — Hana Cervinkova
Carl Schmitt in Jerusalem: Reflecting on the Mob Violence of August 17th
08/27/2012 — Piki Ish-Shalom
Sexism Italian Style: Why Sacking Berlusconi Isn’t Enough
08/23/2012 — Andrea Hajek
Notes on dOCUMENTA (13): Afghanistan and Conclusions
08/20/2012 — Hakan Topal
Notes on dOCUMENTA (13): Artistic Research
08/17/2012 — Hakan Topal
Notes on dOCUMENTA (13): Parks, Nature and Artifact
08/16/2012 — Hakan Topal
Politics as an End in Itself: New Media and the Persistence of OWS
08/08/2012 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Politics as an End in Itself: The Arab Spring and The Creation of Independent Publics
08/02/2012 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Media Remember: Berlusconi’s Comeback and The Genius of Blob
07/30/2012 — Andrea Hajek
Politics as an End in Itself: From the Arab Spring to OWS, and Beyond – Part 1
07/27/2012 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
A Polish Cultural War: The Battle over the History and Education
07/23/2012 — Malgorzata Bakalarz
Facebook and the Digital (R)evolution of a Protest Generation
07/13/2012 — Andrea Hajek
Why Poland? 3.5, Confronting a Difficult Past
07/09/2012 — Malgorzata Bakalarz
Politics in Sports? Notes on the German Flag, the Führer and the Playfulness of Symbols
06/19/2012 — Irit Dekel
Setting Realistic Expectations for Rio + 20
06/18/2012 — Michael Cohen
The Greek Crisis as Racketeering
06/17/2012 — Despina Lalaki
Asylum-Seekers, Hate Speech and Racism – Tel Aviv, Israel, May 22nd
05/25/2012 — Piki Ish-Shalom
Argentina Continues to Defy Conventional Wisdom: A Response to Milberg
05/24/2012 — Michael Cohen
On the National 9/11 Memorial: An Italian Perspective
05/21/2012 — Anna Lisa Tota
German Provincial Elections: On to the Post-Macho Welfare State, Pirates Included
05/16/2012 — Christiane Wilke
Reflections on the Elections in Greece
05/14/2012 — Minas Samatas
Election in France: A European Roosevelt?
05/09/2012 — Jean-Luis Fabiani
The French Presidential Election: In Search of Time Past
04/21/2012 — Jean-Luis Fabiani
What Can be Said about Guenter Grass’s “What Must be Said”?
04/11/2012 — Irit Dekel
Making Sense of Place: Naming Streets and Stations in Berlin and Beyond
03/22/2012 — Christiane Wilke
Berserk: The Killing of 16 Civilians in Afghanistan
03/15/2012 — Michael Corey
Putin Wins?
03/05/2012 — Esther Kreider-Verhalle
From Solidarity 2.0 to Civil Society 1.0?
02/08/2012 — Helena Chmielewska-Szlajfer
Romania’s Winter of Discontent
02/02/2012 — Elisabeta Pop
Solidarity 2.0? Cyber and Street Protests in Poland
01/30/2012 — Tomasz Kitlinski
Hungarian Alert for Central Europe
01/13/2012 — Kacper Szulecki
Should Hungary be Excluded from the European Union?
01/12/2012 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Vaclav Havel: The End of an Era
01/10/2012 — Martin Butora
New Year’s Message Sent by Former Hungarian Political Dissidents, Budapest, 2nd of January, 2012
01/02/2012 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Citizen Havel Leaves
12/22/2011 — Kacper Szulecki
What Václav Havel Meant to Me
12/21/2011 — Hana Cervinkova
Russia’s Democratic Ideas and Practices
12/15/2011 — Esther Kreider-Verhalle
Promesse de Bonheur in Nowhere: Fantasies of Art & Beauty in Israeli and Palestinian Films, Part 2
12/13/2011 — Igal Bursztyn
Promesse de Bonheur in Nowhere: Fantasies of Art & Beauty in Israeli and Palestinian Films, Part 1
12/12/2011 — Igal Bursztyn
The Crisis in Greece: Tragedy Without Catharsis
11/03/2011 — Minas Samatas
Gilad Shalit Comes Home
10/18/2011 — Irit Dekel
Elections in Poland: More than the Lesser of Two Evils?
10/17/2011 — Nahed Habiballah
In Review: OWS, The Ground Zero Occupation
10/14/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Our Heroes? Responsibility and War
10/12/2011 — Gary Alan Fine
Things Come Together: Occupy Wall Street, Solidarity, Elections and Khodorkovsky
10/10/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
A Hunger Strike in Albanian Mines: A Quest for Justice and Sound Public Policy
10/07/2011 — Ermira Danaj
Civil Protest in Israel: Reflections of a Science Fiction Fan
09/16/2011 — Nachman Ben Yehuda
Who Won the Libyan war?
08/24/2011 — Benoit Challand
DC Week in Review: Democracy in Crisis
08/09/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Haiti Reporters
08/04/2011 — Esther Kreider-Verhalle
The Tents Movement Uprising in Israel
08/02/2011 — Irit Dekel
Haiti: Resilience against Hopelessness
07/27/2011 — Esther Kreider-Verhalle
Uruguay at the Crossroads: No Justice without Development
07/13/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
DC Week in Review: Democracy and Diversity and Free Public Action
07/08/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Iran: The Meaning of Free Politics
07/06/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
DC Week in Review: War and Peace
06/24/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
The Fictoid of Race
06/16/2011 — Rafael Narvaez
Reflections of a Terrorist Suspect
06/15/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
DC Week in Review: DSK and the Presumption of Guilt
06/10/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Elections in Peru, the Runoff
06/08/2011 — Rafael Narvaez
Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Presumed Innocence
06/06/2011 — Daniel Dayan
DC Week in Review: Letter from Paris II, Thinking about Egypt, Poland and China with “Skin in the Game”
06/03/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Letter from Paris: Thinking about the Middle East, North Africa and Central Europe
06/01/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
The China Show
05/31/2011 — Chris Eberhardt
Going Forward by Going Back to 1967
05/23/2011 — Gershon Shafir
Reflections on President Obama’s Speech on the Middle East and North Africa
05/19/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
The Dramaturgy of the Poor? On a Flotilla to Gaza, Suicide Bombings in Morroco and Pakistan
05/17/2011 — Daniel Dayan
Two Slaves and the Capacity for Indignation
05/16/2011 — Rafael Narvaez
DC Two Weeks in Review: Obama Kills Osama! Victory! The War on Terror is Over! Let’s Think.
05/13/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Media and the Palestinians: “Continued Stalemate Will Only Strengthen Extremists”
05/12/2011 — Benoit Challand
Osama and Obama: One Death, Four Invisibilities
05/10/2011 — Daniel Dayan
DC Forum: The Killing of Osama bin Laden – Part Three
05/09/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
DC Forum: The Killing of Osama bin Laden – Part Two
05/07/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
DC Forum: The Killing of Osama bin Laden – Part One
05/06/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Post-Earthquake Politics in Japan and China
05/04/2011 — Bin Xu
Easy Targets
05/03/2011 — Gary Alan Fine
Osama bin Laden: Thoughts and Questions
05/02/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Junk Politics
04/27/2011 — Rafael Narvaez
Positive Prospects in Tunisia and Egypt
04/26/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Presidential Elections in Peru
04/18/2011 — Rafael Narvaez
DC Week in Review: Ryan’s Budget, the President’s Speech and the Tea Party between Two Assassinations
04/16/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
On the Assassination of Vittorio Arrigoni: We Remain Human
04/15/2011 — Benoit Challand
On the Assassination of Juliano Mer-Khamis: Fighting for the Freedom of the Everyday
04/11/2011 — Irit Dekel
DC Week in Review: A Post of Laughter and Forgetting
04/08/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Live from Gaza
04/07/2011 — Benoit Challand
Obama’s Speech on Libya
03/29/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Arms and Speech in Libya and Beyond
03/28/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
A Morning Suggestion for Thinking about Libya
— Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Chernobyl on My Mind
03/24/2011 — Esther Kreider-Verhalle
Libya and the Mission Creep I Hope For
03/23/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
President Obama in Brazil: A View from Brazil
03/22/2011 — Sergio Tavolaro
Last Letter from Joburg: Cry for Politics of the Earth
03/11/2011 — Elzbieta Matynia
Religion, Tyranny and its Alternatives in Iran
03/10/2011 — Ahmad Sadri
Revolution in Egypt?
03/07/2011 — Andrew Arato
The Return of Revolutions
— Andrew Arato
2011: Youth, not Religion / Spontaneity, not Aid
03/03/2011 — Benoit Challand
The Counter-Power of Civil Society in the Middle East
03/02/2011 — Benoit Challand
Qaddafi and Human Rights
02/28/2011 — Daniel Dayan
Egypt: Hope against Skepticism
02/21/2011 — Hazem Kandil
A Baffling Exodus in Tunisia: Exit or Voice or Both?
02/17/2011 — Daniel Dayan
Who Lost Egypt?
02/16/2011 — Gary Alan Fine
Democracy, Israel and Egypt
02/15/2011 — Nahed Habiballah
Tunisia and Egypt: Questioning Insurrections
02/12/2011 — Daniel Dayan
Egypt, Squaring the Circle: A View from Poland and South Africa
02/11/2011 — Elzbieta Matynia
Obama and Egypt
02/09/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Revolutionary Failure in Egypt?
02/08/2011 — Hazem Kandil
Mario Vargas Llosa, The Politics of Gesture in Peru and Beyond
02/03/2011 — Rafael Narvaez
The Hungarian Shock: The Transition from Democracy?
02/01/2011 — Andras Bozoki
Egypt Considered Deliberately
01/30/2011 — Hazem Kandil
Transition to Democracy in the Arab World?
01/29/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
DC Week in Review: The Imagined and the Real Brazil
01/16/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Bad Politics = Great Art?
01/06/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Problematic Rabbinical Ruling Continued
— Nachman Ben Yehuda
Intellectuals and the Common People in China
12/29/2010 — Chris Eberhardt
Brazil Leads the Pack on “Fair Trade” Policies
— Vince Carducci
Afghanistan War Revisited
12/28/2010 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Hitler and the Germans: National Community and Crime
12/26/2010 — Irit Dekel
The Israeli Rabbis’ Letter: a Translation
12/19/2010 — Iddo Tavory
Israel: Jewish and Democratic?
12/16/2010 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Human Rights Day
12/14/2010 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Privacy and Progress
12/03/2010 — Elzbieta Matynia
The New York Times in the Americas
12/02/2010 — Martin Plot
In Johannesburg: The Struggle for Democracy all Over Again
11/08/2010 — Elzbieta Matynia
In Israel: A Two-sided Problem Needs a Two-sided Response
10/25/2010 — Nahed Habiballah
In Hungary: The Politics of Toxic Sludge
10/21/2010 — Virag Molnar
From Liu Xiabo: A Seed of Strength for Chinese Political Protesters
10/11/2010 — Elzbieta Matynia
Voice of Dissent Should Always Be Welcome in Debate
10/10/2010 — Daniel Dayan
In South Africa: A Young Leader Ignites Passion, Controversy
10/01/2010 — Elzbieta Matynia
Talking about Cordoba
09/28/2010 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Politically Weighted Courts in Turkey “Bad News” for Democracy
09/24/2010 — Andrew Arato
DC and TCDS: Going Public by Bringing It Home
09/19/2010 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
From the Head of State: a Call to Action
09/08/2010 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Looking at Gaza, Remembering Tragedy, Looking for Hope in Small Things.
08/23/2010 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb