On August 26, 1789, exactly 42 days after the day Bastille had been stormed, which was considered the day the French Revolution won, the Constituent Assembly in Paris issued what came to be known as the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. Inspired by the values of the Enlightenment…

The door to reassessments and reflections on violence was opened wide immediately after the failed attempt to assassinate Donald Trump. The history of the United States, as we well know, is brimming with violence, particularly against the "red" indigenous population and the Afro-American “blacks.”…

For a week now, democrats around the world have been celebrating France’s immense victory. Democracy succeeded in preventing the extremist National Rally party from obtaining a parliamentary majority, even denying it first and second place. Strikingly, however, many of those who are now praising…

Despite the importance of reaching a ceasefire in Gaza and southern Lebanon, and of that happening sooner rather than later, not many have argued that such a development would open the door to a conclusive peace. The fact is that the fighters themselves, in all of the conflict’s many fronts, do not…

Many are eulogizing the West’s liberal parliamentary model today. They are armed with an array of arguments: its foreign policies- especially its position on the war in Gaza, the results of the recent French elections, Donald Trump potentially making his way back to the White House, and the…

Many politicians have taken a decision, at some point, that led to war or have sparked a war through a policy they pursued that placed a single consideration over all others. However, the vast majority of these wars, which were fought over a piece of land and the resources in it, in what direction…

Over the broad era of the past century and a half, the world witnessed four major developments that we have come to recognize as major setbacks. In 1914, the First World War broke out and "crowned" Europe’s "belle epoque" in a manner no one had anticipated. Indeed, since the Franco-Prussian War…

Contrary to the American political tradition, where "federalism" is a concept with positive connotations, the French experience offered a different meaning. The term may have been used as a slur for the first time following the French Revolution of 1789, when cities across France witnessed…

Two phrases often repeated by international organizations today compete whenever Sudan is mentioned: "It is the world’s biggest humanitarian tragedy" and "It is one of the world’s biggest humanitarian tragedies." Over three months ago, when the horrific figures had not been as high as they are now,…

The results of the European elections are yet another indication of the difficulties of tying the global solidarity movement with Gaza to mainstream European societies. If Donald Trump becomes president in a few months, his victory would only reinforce those difficulties. Even the term “youths,”…