From Colombia to Lebanon: The Street Revolts (By Ana Prada & Yeghia Tashjian)

The year 2019 was full of global protest movements ranging on topics such as climate change, the establishment of participatory governance models, to anti-corruption rallies from the Middle East to Latin America. We will be highlighting the protest movement in Lebanon and Colombia

To Mine or not to Mine? A post-Revolutionary Debate on Mining in Armenia (By Yeghia Tashjian)

Introduction    Following the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Armenian economy collapsed. Starting in 1993, the government took a neo-liberal path and launched an ambitious IMF-sponsored economic reform by privatizing most public companies. As a result, a small elite concentrated