CESRAN International

CESRAN International and York St John University invite panel and paper proposals relating to all aspects of humanities and social sciences on wider Eurasia, for the 9th Annual Conference on Eurasian Politics & Society on 13-16 July 2022 in York, UK. The Conference will be held in York between 13-15 July 2022. The fourth day (16 July 2022) will...

Desiree di Marco Research Fellow Introduction              In recent years, extreme party polarisation in the United States (US), with the election of President Donald Trump, has questioned whether or not "American democracy is doomed" (Yglesias, 2015). Given the institutional structure of the American political system, some scholars argued that the...

Tugche Veys Research Fellow Introduction             Throughout the past couple of decades, a growing number of scholars have investigated the relationship between military forces and sexual violence. Specifically, the “rape as a weapon of war” frame gained importance in the twentieth century, predominantly with the cases of Rwanda, Bosnia and...