Ramazan Aslan, PhD* * Assistant Prof. at the Department of Business at Adıyaman University, ramazanaslan@adiyaman.edu.tr ABSTRACT The only legitimate way for the political parties to get power in democratic countries is to achieve victory in the elections. In order to get more votes than the rival parties and thus win the election, political parties must…
Muhammad Rizwan* * MS in International Relations from COMSATS University Islamabad, Rizwan.malik444@yahoo.com ABSTRACT Advancement in the field of information and communication technology (ICT) has transformed the world. In the contemporary era, digital technologies are playing an important role in performing daily life operations. This advancement and dependence on ICT also brought with it various types…
Daniel A. Bell and Wang Pei Just Hierarchy, Why Social Hierarchies Matter in China and the Rest of the World (USA: Princeton University Press, 2020, ISBN: 978-0-691-20088-0, 270 pp.) The international system is going through a period in which multi-polarity has increasingly been the main characteristic identifying the whole system. Within such a multi-polar/multi-centred world…
Robert P. Inman and Daniel L. Rubinfeld Democratic Federalism: The Economics, Politics, and Law of Federal Governance Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020, ISBN: 9780691202129, 448 pp., $45.00 hb.) In presenting an interdisciplinary approach to Democratic Federalism, Robert Inman and Daniel Rubinfeld examine different models of federalism and compare their relative effectiveness as regards economic efficiency,…
Sean R. Roberts The War on the Uyghurs: China’s Internal Campaign against a Muslim Minority (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020, ISBN: 978-0-691-20218-1, 328 pp., $29.95.) The War on the Uyghurs is the first book published by Sean R. Roberts, a cultural anthropologist with some 30 years’ experience of studying the ethnolinguistic group which has recently become…
The 22nd issue of the rest: journal of politics and development is out now. Download the issue here… TABLE OF CONTENTS Research Articles Possibilities for Epistemic Violence in Asylum Process: Lessons From the Case of Finland By Katri Gadd and Laura Lehtikunnas The Clash of Japan’s FOIP and China’s BRI? By Daisuke Akimoto The Evolution of…
Katri Gadd, PhD* * Corresponding Author: Postdoctoral research fellow, Institute for Human Rights, Åbo Akademi University, Finland, kgadd@abo.fi Laura Lehtikunnas** ** MA student, Faculty of Law, University of Turku, Finland, lauras.lehtikunnas@gmail.com ABSTRACT In 2015, Europe noticed that the Common European Asylum System malfunctions in “crises”-like-situations. With the New Pact on Migration and Asylum, the European…
Daisuke Akimoto, PhD* * Adjunct Fellow of the Institute of Contemporary Asian Studies (ICAS) at Temple University Japan Campus and Associate Research Fellow of the Institute for Security & Development Policy (ISDP), Stockholm Japan Center, Sweden; dakimoto@isdp.eu ABSTRACT Since the late 2010s, the concept of the “Indo-Pacific” has been becoming increasingly significant in the international…
Mazen Alhousseiny* * Corresponding Author: Training and Capacity Development Advisor, Start Network, M.m.housseiny@gmail.com, Orcid ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6290-7244 Emrah Atar** ** Lecturer, Political Science and Public Administration, Recep Tayyip Erdogan University. emrah.atar@erdogan.edu.tr, Orcid ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1221-5415 ABSTRACT Syrian humanitarian sector was limited to two types of NGOs till the Syrian conflict started; traditional charities composing of religious or…