monthly review

This development could take place quickly, without leading to a major crisis, because Israel has always had an idiosyncratic conception of democracy. ... This violence and rejection of the requirements of democracy by Israel’s elected officials serve as a model for its..

israel’s anti-semitism smear campaign

Israel could never become quite what it claimed to be – “Jewish and democratic” – but it did become a functioning liberal democracy for the roughly eighty percent of its population that is Jewish. . For the other twenty percent, it was a flawed, but not entirely failed,..

pakistan leader clamps down

'The U.S. has made clear that it does not support extra-constitutional measures, because those measures would take Pakistan away from the path of democracy and civilian rule,' U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told reporters while traveling from Turkey to Israel yesterday. ..

appendix a: methodology

Consequently, the breakdown for most of the movement of migrants is drawn from Pew Research Center's Global Religion and Migration Database source estimating the breakdown of migrant populations based on global census and survey information. ..

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