U.S. – PROSPECT

SISI’S EGYPT: REPRESSION AT A CROSSROADS

Senior Editor Matt M. Joye chronicles the increasingly draconian regime of Egypt’s President al-Sisi, and asks whether increasing repression sows the seeds for future unrest.

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November 7, 2014

AFRICA, ECONOMICS, HUMAN RIGHTS, MEDIA, MIDDLE EAST, MILITARY, POLITICS

Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Arab Spring, Cairo, coup, cult of personality, demonstration, economic crisis, Egypt, fuel subsidies, general, Hosni Mubarak, Human Rights Watch, IMF, Jimmy Carter, military, Mohamed Morsi, Morsi, mosques, Mubarak, Muslim Brotherhood, political crisis, Protest, revolution, Sinai Pennisula, Sisi, Tahrir Square, tourism, U.S., UN, united nations, United States, University, US
THE STRUGGLE FOR RIGHTS WITHIN UGANDA’S LGBT COMMUNITY: AN AMERICAN DEBATE RELOCATED

Staff Writer Andrew Muse-Fisher looks at how the struggle for LGBT equality in the United States also effects Uganda’s more repressive approach to its own LGBT community.

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May 9, 2014

ACADEMIC, AFRICA, HUMAN RIGHTS, NORTH AMERICA, POLITICS

American Family Association, Anti-Homosexuality Bill, Barack Obama, Bryan Fischer, DOMA, Evangelical, Hillary Clinton, homosexual, lgbt, Lydia Boyd, Scott Lively, U.S., uganda, United States, World Bank, Yoweri Museveni
DEBATING THE “UKRAINIAN PROBLEM”: WHAT SHOULD THE UNITED STATES DO? (PART II)

Staff Writer Patrick Johnson argues international institutions and diplomatic efforts—not military power— are essential to resolve the Crimean crisis

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April 4, 2014

EUROPE, MILITARY, NORTH AMERICA, OPINION, POLITICS

American Withdrawal, Condoleezza Rice, Crimea, G8, Georgia, NATO, Obama, power vacuum, Putin, Russia, soft power, U.S., U.S. Foreign Policy, Ukraine, United States

SISI’S EGYPT: REPRESSION AT A CROSSROADS

THE STRUGGLE FOR RIGHTS WITHIN UGANDA’S LGBT COMMUNITY: AN AMERICAN DEBATE RELOCATED

DEBATING THE “UKRAINIAN PROBLEM”: WHAT SHOULD THE UNITED STATES DO? (PART II)