Carl Mosk (Victoria): Contested Identities: Secularism and Economic Development in the Contemporary World. Meltem A. Aran (Development Analytics): How Turkey's AK Party Lost the Median Voter: A Social and Distributional Analysis of AKP Policies under Erdogan. Ingar Solty (York): The Crisis Interregnum: Considerations on the Political Articulation of the Global Crisis from the New Right-Wing Populism to the Occupy Movement. Richard J. White (Sheffield Hallam): Towards a Post-Occupy World: The Importance of Recognising "Post-capitalist" Spaces in "Capitalist" Society. The ground shakes in the country of inequalities and paradoxes: Luiz E. Soares on Brazil. Is Chile the next Brazil? A new protest movement picks up where the student mobilizations of 2006 left off. Behzad Yaghmaian on what unites Turkey's and Iran's youth. What happened to Occupy? Doug Rossinow on the divided left and the demise of a movement. Alexander Key on why Turkey is Occupy not Spring. The Middle-Class Revolution: All over the world, argues Francis Fukuyama, today's political turmoil has a common theme — the failure of governments to meet the rising expectations of the newly prosperous and educated (and more by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson). Brazil is a stable and growing democracy — and we’re not going to take it any more. Ezra Klein interviews Ruchir Sharma on why the protests in Turkey, Brazil and Egypt shouldn’t surprise you. In Brazil, Turkey, and Chile, protests follow economic success, illustrating the high price of progress. Muqtedar Khan on the clash of cultures from Istanbul to Cairo. Travis Waldron on how Brazil’s Olympic and World Cup dreams turned into a nightmare. Justin AK Helepololei on the Do-It-Yourself Theory of Occupy Wall Street and Spain’s 15M. Middle-class militants: James Surowiecki on Brazil’s revolt in the midst of relative prosperity. The end of Turkey's Europeanization: Has Turkey fully abandoned its push to join the European Union?
