POS 201: Lecture 1-Political Theory and Political Science (Robert Glover)
A lecture that summarizes what political theory and political science are and how they are taught in the US universities. Watch the Video
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የዳውድ ኢብሳና የዐቢይ ቀይ ሽብሮች ፤ ማቲ ሸኔ ፣ ቀቤኛ ሸኔ፤ ኮሬ ሆጂ ምጄስቱ (ETHIO FORUM)
በኢትዮጵያ የፊውዳሉ ሥርዓት ከዘመኑ ጋር ባለመዘመኑ ከሥልጣን ከተወገደ በኋላ የተፈራረቁት ሦስት መንግሥታት ስለአደረሱት የሽብር ፍጂት ኢትዮ ፎረም ያቀረበው ዘገባ። ምንጭ ቪዲዮውን ይመልከቱ
Beware of “Body Count” Foreign Policy (Russell A. Berman)
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Race and Politics (The New York Times)
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A few years ago, a troubling phenomenon began to spread in U.S. education: Students were not showing up to school. This was not particularly surprising. Schools had shut down in the spring of 2020, at the start of the pandemic, and some did not fully reopen until fall 2021. Quarantines for Covid symptoms and exposures …
How Peer Pressure Affects Voting (The New York Times)
Peer pressure The political scientists Chryl Laird and Ismail White used a creative strategy several years ago to study the voting patterns of Black Americans. Laird and White took advantage of the fact that some surveys are conducted through in-person interviews — and keep track of the interviewer’s race — while other surveys are done online. In …
A Review of Covid Impacts at its Fourth Anniversary (The New York Times)
March 11, 2020 Four years ago today, society began to shut down. Shortly after noon Eastern on March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared Covid — or “the coronavirus,” then the more popular term — to be a global pandemic. Stocks plummeted in the afternoon. In the span of a single hour that night, President …
Why Did the Best Prepared Country in the World Fare So Poorly during COVID? (Jennifer B. Nuzzo and Jorge R. Ledesma)
Though the timing and details of the COVID-19 pandemic caught governhough the timing and details of the COVID-19 pandemic caught governments around the world by surprise, the possibility of a new pathogenemerging to cause a deadly pandemic had been long understood by expertsin public health preparedness. Even in the months prior to the outbreak of …
Conflicts of the Past as Lessons for the Present (Strategika, Issue 90, April 2024)
The evident failure of the United States to deter Iranis manifest in the concurrent aggressions of its threeTwelver Shia militias in Lebanon (Hezllah), Syria, andIraq, which have wounded many American troops andkilled three; the aggression of the Fiver Shia Houthimilitia of Yemen that has attacked U.S. as well as otherships in the Red Sea with …