By Lisa Hajjar, author of The War in Court: Inside the Long Fight against Torture
I made my first trip to Guantánamo in July 2010 after years of researching the fight against US torture during the “war on terror.” At the time, Guantánamo’s well-deserved description as a “legal black ho...
By Jesse Wozniak, author of Policing Iraq: Legitimacy, Democracy, and Empire in a Developing State
During my first research trip to the Lead Police Training Academy on the outskirts of Sulaimaniyah, Iraq, I observed a class of recruits on their last day of training finally get their hi...
By Paul Almeida, author of Social Movements: The Structure of Collective Mobilization
October 2019 witnessed an inordinate clustering of massive civil disobedience in the global South. These protests include major social movement campaigns in Haiti, Iraq, Lebanon, Ecuador, Hong Kon...