Foreign Policy Essay
Foreign Funded NGOs, Political Power, and Democratic Legitimacy
Gerald Steinberg Sun, Jun 24, 2018, 10:00 AM
The case for Israel's restrictive policies for non-governmental organizations.
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Omphalos: Middle East Conflict in Perspective
Omphalos takes an interdisciplinary look at the contemporary Middle East, and is published jointly with two key partners: Academic Exchange, an educational non-profit that seeks to deepen understanding of Israel in the international academic community, and the Brookings Center for Middle East Policy and its blog, Markaz. Turmoil in today's Middle East today implicates a wide array of legal questions, bears huge costs for civilian populations, and poses diverse challenges to policymakers, activists, lawyers, and reformers. For the issues that Lawfare treats, the Middle East is a kind of omphalos.
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