Turkey-Kazakhstan Relations: A Strong Partnership in the Turkic World

Online article by Bayram Balci
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Kazakhstan has been a key partner for Turkey in the Turkic world, with relations that have been positive and expanding since independence. They have accelerated in recent years, with more institutionalized political relations, and ambition to further boost economic relations, and the continued role of Turkish soft power in Kazakhstan. In recent years, particularly after Turkey’s more active projection of military power abroad, military cooperation has also developed into an important element of Turkey-Kazakhstan relations.

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From Disconnection to Intersection: Making Race and Religion at the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

Open Access article by Juliette Galonnier
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This article investigates how the categories of ‘race’ and ‘religion’ are concurrently produced in international arenas. The 1965 International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination serves as a case in point. While initial discussions focused on a joint condemnation of racial and religious discrimination, debates at the UN during the 1960s led to separate the two issues in the final draft. Relying on archives and interviews with current experts of the CERD (Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination), I show that the committee inherited the race-religion disconnection manufactured in the 1960s with ambivalence, but pragmatically adapted its practice to adjudicate on forms of hostility (anti-Semitism, Islamophobia) where race and religion are de facto closely intertwined. I examine how CERD experts used various instruments of interpretation and benefited from the wider ‘turn to intersectionality’ to carve out a space for the race-religion intersection within their mandate.

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Latin American Politics in 2023. Democracy, Authoritarianism and Hope for Change?

Interview with David Recondo
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How dawn turned into dusk: Scoping and closing possible nuclear futures after the Cold War

Open Access article by Benoit Pélopidas, Hebatalla Taha & Tom Vaughan
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