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From the streets to ballot boxes: The decline of activist-based social movements in Turkey

  • Ahmet Bekmen,

Everything from hyper-inflation to civil servants’ promotions have been postponed until the elections in 2023.

Challenging Japan’s ‘War Laws’: contemporary civil society action in the courts

  • Adam Eldridge-Imamura,

Street protests against Abe’s Peace and Security Legislation give way to court action challenging their constitutionality.

INTERVIEW: ‘We need help’ – Myanmar civil society two years after the military coup

  • Thinzar Shunlei Yi ,

A young democracy activist who’s been forced to flee Myanmar reflects on the current state of civil society.

Indonesia demonstrates that civil society as a backbone of democracy is a myth

  • Dr Abdil Mughis Mudhoffir,

Civil society has failed to defend democratic institutions from being hijacked by reactionary populist politics.

新冠疫情与阿拉伯“风险社会”的出路

  • 作者:拉尔比·萨迪奇教授 (Professor Larbi Sadiki) 莱拉·萨利赫副教授(Associate Professor Layla Saleh),

自2019年新冠疫情危机爆发…