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The big thinker is pulled out of the mole bag

A new biography of the Arab 1300 number historian Ibn Khaldun has recently been published. Is he now getting his renaissance?

A thought-provoking and certainly probable explanation for the subsequent developments in the Arab world

Secularists and Islamists played on the same team before the powerless and vain President Nasser sowed animosity and strife, the new book claims.

25 years after the Oslo Agreement

Ever after getting in port, the Camp David agreement in 1978 has later made it difficult to meet the Palestinians' desire for an independent state, writes historian Seth Anziska in a new book.

Coercion, murder and prosperity

Documents from Saddam Hussein's archives show a completely different Iraq than the usual story tells.

The rage of democracy 

Among other things, a new book examines how democratic institutions have supported undemocratic practices such as slavery, discrimination and exclusion.

California Dreaming?

In his new book, Professor David Vogel describes how the state has managed in a number of areas to implement its own regulations to support economic and cultural development and growth.

Israel's neurotic state

14. May this year marks the 70 anniversary of the proclamation of the State of Israel. Historian Michael Brenner takes a closer look at the complex and, in part, contradictory basis of its existence.

bomb engineers

New research sheds light on why some seemingly well-functioning engineers end up as radical Islamists.

When democracy stretches

Reforms can bring "hegemonic shocks" and create "democratic over-effort." Many states therefore fall back into their pre-democratic state sooner or later.

Heretical philosophy-fun

New cartoon gives good portrayals of some of the wisest minds of early modernity.

The possibilities and impossibilities of globalization

Globalization smooths the differences between rich and poor worldwide, but increases inequality in individual countries.