- Citizenship and the Vulnerability of the “Stateless” in Offshore Citizens
Noora Lori’s book, Offshore Citizens, offers a compelling picture of international citizenship, its power, and the plights of the stateless. - Faculty Insights Podcast: Humanitarian Efforts in Afghanistan
JPI Online’s Roya Lotfi sat down with Dr. Shinasi Rama, Clinical Professor of Politics and International Relations to discuss the timely topic of humanitarian efforts… - COVID-19 Reaches the Gig Economy
One of the first things I did when I moved to New York was sign up for Wag, an app-based dog-walking service. I love both… - The ‘Arab Spring’ has Sprung Again in the Middle East
As you may have noticed on your morning commute, listening to your preferred daily news podcast, that stories of the Middle East have yet again… - Democracies are in decline, and our educational institutions are to blame
The rise of right-wing populism has sparked the demise of democracies across the globe. Whilst this may be true, frankly, our outdated, 20th century educational… - Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood Problem
As the oldest political revivalist group in the Islamic world—and one of the most polarizing—the Muslim Brotherhood has the disputed status throughout the region as… - UN Peacekeeping Operations Ministerial Conference is Taking Place This Month – The International Community Should Reflect on Practicality
The United Nations peacekeeping operations (PKO) have long been the organizations backbone, with its relevance and effectiveness in maintaining international peace and security. With 14… - An Election of “Firsts”
Yesterday’s election saw large numbers of Americans turning up to cast their votes. The New York Times is estimating that some 114 million ballots were cast… - How Overturning a Christian Woman’s Death Sentence Brought Pakistan to a Standstill
On Tuesday, Pakistan’s Supreme Court acquitted Asia Bibi, a woman falsely accused of blasphemy, in a landmark verdict. This long-delayed, historic decision freed Bibi after… - No Post-Conflict Decontamination Obligations Set Before UN First Committee Vote
NEW YORK—The U.N. General Assembly’s upcoming vote on a resolution to address the effects and use of depleted uranium weaponry is its first since the… - Insights | Information: The Best Weapon against Radicalization
They were starved and abused. While they wouldn’t have believed any negative information about ISIS once indoctrinated, they said had they known what membership entailed… - Insights | Caring for the Crazy
Photo courtesy Wikimedia Commons What if the next time you fell ill, seriously ill—the kind of… - Insights | The Truth About Torture: Depicting CIA Abuses in ‘The Torture Report’
Excerpt from ‘The Torture Report’ | Photo courtesy Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón On September 17, 2001, the United States took its first steps into a… - Insights | “Crude Democracy” Book Review
A woman walks past a gas pipeline near the city of Asaluyeh, Iran, Jan. 22, 2014. | Photo courtesy Xinhua News I remember once during a… - Insights | Prophesying the Present: Michel Houellebecq’s “Submission”
Michel Houellebecq’s “Submission” should bear a trigger warning | Photo courtesy WSJ blogs With the French Presidential campaign in full swing, anti-Muslim sentiment has reached fever pitch… - Insights | Making Sense of the Trump-Putin Relationship
Rumors of a special relationship between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin began to circulate months before election day, but it wasn’t… - Insights | Gay, Palestinian, Israeli: Caught between conflicting identities
Jake Witzenfeld presented his documentary Oriented at New York University’s Gallatin School, sparking a conversation about identity crises on the Mediterranean shores. In the opening… - Insights | A Leaderless Movement: Gordon Brown on Globalization
The room was filled with an impatient buzz. Students and faculty looked around, both admiring their surroundings and hoping to get a glimpse of… - Insights | Is Footing the Peacekeeping Bill Enough?
Austria sends more. Uruguay, Yemen and Denmark send more. Even Finland sends more troops to United Nations peacekeeping missions than the United States, though its… - Insights | Reducing Uncertainty
[Originally posted here] Books and movies often portray U.S. intelligence as a salacious world of secrets and spies, evoking images of Liam Neeson scaling buildings… - The World We Lost and How We Get it Back: Book Review of Ill Fares the LandEurope has lost its direction. Seven years after the financial crisis, most of the continent has still not recovered. An unresolved sovereign debt crisis, thousands…
- Insights | Slavoj Žižek talks about Greece and Syriza
It is incredibly difficult to listen to Slavoj Žižek without allowing his personality to obscure what may be utter brilliance and innovative thought on the… - Insights | The Savage Wars of Peace
At some point we have all discussed war. These discussions generally start along the lines of its merits and drawbacks, why countries engage in war,… - Insights | NYU Law Event: Iran, ISIS, and the Future of Gulf Security
Iran, ISIS, and the Future of Gulf Security March 2, 2015 Furman Hall | The Center on Law and Security | NYU School of Law… - InsightsThe Journal of Political Inquiry is pleased to announce the introduction of Insights, a new web feature that allows our student community to share perspectives on…
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