Sri Lanka's ethnoreligious divisions are bound to continue as long as the likes of Rajapaksa dominate the island's political scene.

Myanmar has consolidated its impunity, making its crimes a fait accompli. To do so, it first destabilized the legitimacy of the Rohingya as a group …

What Merkel's critics underestimate is the extent to which her proactive policies of the past decade encouraging integration and ‘intercultural opening’ have produced an even bigger paradigm shift…

Governments in Southeast Asia have adopted policies that are fueling militancy by restricting freedoms and fostering authoritarianism.

The public sphere of debate and discussion predicated on transparency has given way to a public sphere of image and spectacle.

The refugee crises … amount to an emerging global challenge facing almost all industrialized liberal democracies, pitting their humanitarian norms against materialist values.

After the Paris massacres, a polemical essay and a novel provide alternative perspectives on the religious and colonial roots of the present state of emergency.

Variations of Geert Wilders's xenophobic message are shared by the majority of the political parties represented in the Dutch parliament.

A new book examines the role of Islam in America, where many citizens continue to view the religion through the prism of terrorism originating in the Middle East.

It is imperative for the United States to engage mainstream Islamic political parties that are committed to gradual change through the ballot box.

Even as Western societies worry about the ‘rise of Islamic fundamentalism,’ the international community's ill-conceived policies for Kosova's rural Muslim population may prove to be directly responsible for the production of Europe's own Taliban.

If [Khatami] does not seize the moment and conservatives continue to resist change, Iranian citizens will become increasingly impatient: their questions already are no longer ‘Why reform?’ or ‘What kind of reform?’ They now urgently ask ‘How?’ and ‘When?’

What has warranted the Egyptian government's use of state security courts, military courts, military law, and exceptional regulation and control of political life over the course of more than five decades? Clearly, Islamist radicals who have been willing to use violence against the state and civilians outside the parameters of the law warrant strong measures…. [Yet] these laws have remained in place even as the government has claimed that its policies have vanquished the Islamist threat.

The fragility of Nigeria's new democracy is rooted in the onerous burden of the preceding era of military misrule and the shallow nature of the May 1999 transition from autocracy to democracy.