Convivencia Destroyed For much of its history, Toledo, Spain was “la ciudad con tres culturas,” the city with three cultures, and the embodiment of convivencia, a time in which Christians, Muslims and Jews lived harmoniously throughout Spain. The period of ...
The wave of anti-globalization that has overwhelmed the West over the past year has left no country untouched; political movements everywhere are questioning whether global integration should have measured “progress” for so long. Nowhere has integration gone further in the ...
As it pertains to the supposed relationship between Russia and Team Trump, and especially between Russia and President Trump himself, there currently exists two vastly different criticisms coming from the Democratic party. The first criticism concerns the seeming inability of ...
Concerned murmurs of “populism” hang over many political movements that emerged in 2016. The word littered headlines, describing political parties, politicians and popular movements in the US, UK, Spain, Italy and the Philippines, among others. As far as “isms” go, ...
For most of the American foreign policy commentariat, myself included, the greatest and most horrendous legacy of a Trump Presidency was always going to be President Trump’s clownish mismanagement of foreign affairs, which many believed would lead to a breakdown ...
“Their world is crumbling. Ours is being built.” The vice-president of France’s far-right, populist Front National (FN) party tweeted this message on November 9, as Donald Trump’s victory became evident. The FN’s prominence in the upcoming French presidential election poses ...
When Pablo Iglesias beat out his deputy and philosophical counterweight Errejón for leadership of Podemos in early February, he made a muted note of the party’s ongoing spiritual crisis: “There’s no doubt we’ve made a lot of mistakes,” Iglesias said, ...
Since the parliamentary elections last October, the Moroccan government has suffered from gridlock due to elected Prime Minister and leader of the Justice and Development Party (PJD) Abdelilah Benkirane’s inability to form a governmental coalition. Clashes with other political parties, ...
In this podcast, Glimpse Senior Correspondent Luke Phillips interviews Dr. Boys on the foreign policy trends and incidents of the Clinton Administration. Dr. Boys argues that President Clinton was first and foremost a foreign policy pragmatist who responded responsibly to ...
Perhaps no other foreign country currently dominates the US public imagination quite like China. It is often cast in one of a multitude of dimly-lit roles: a pitiable, jealous state of repressed automatons, or a cunning villain, cheating and exploiting ...