The Israel–Palestine conflict is one of the most tenacious and polarizing conflicts in the world and, according to some analysts, one that is seemingly impossible to solve given the current input v...

The European Legacy, Volume 17, Issue 5, Page 697-698, August 2012.

How are we to understand and analyse the constitutional tension in Turkey between the judiciary and the political sphere? In this article the issue is mirrored in the political crisis which started in April 2007 with the nomination of Abdullah G l as presidential candidate by the moderate Islamist Justice and Development Party (AKP). The more detailed empirical background consists primarily of the dress code problematics including the matter of party closure. Theoretically, the “hegemonic preservation” thesis elaborated by Ran Hirschl (...) turned out to be a useful instrument when it comes to explaining this political crisis as well as the origin of the so-called new constitutionalism. This is illustrated by the judicial activism in the headscarf affair as well as by the eagerness of the Republican People's Party (CHP), as the political representative of the secular establishment, to play the 'Atat rk card' and to submit the protection of their interest to an independent judiciary and not to the uncertainties of the mechanisms of majoritarian democracy. However, with regard to the current Turkish case my analysis also shows that Hirschl's thesis is too static and should be complemented with a more dynamic perspective of constitutional politics as a repeated game. One example of this is that even if the Turkish Constitutional Court (TCC) had declared the constitutional amendment on the headscarf invalid and voted for economic sanctions against the AKP, it did not close the party down. (shrink)

In 2018 more people than ever—70.8 million—were fleeing war, conflict, and persecution, according to a report from the UNHCR. This was the first time the figure exceeded 70 million. Internal refuge...

The Israel–Palestine conflict is one of the most tenacious and polarizing conflicts in the world and, according to some analysts, one that is seemingly impossible to solve given the current input v...

Volume 24, Issue 3-4, May - June 2019, Page 459-460.