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Author Archives: Janice Jayes
1968 – Not Really So Long Ago or Far Away
“I want kids to see that it wasn’t just Martin Luther King making things happen in the 1960s, it was local folks here as well. Just as it is today.” Katie Snyder, Education Program Specialist, Museum of the Grand Prairie … Continue reading
Posted in 1968, African Americans, African Americans, Environment, University of Illinois, Vietnam War, Youth
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The Real War in Egypt: the Labor Struggle
By Janice Jayes If you missed the exciting Presidential election news out of Egypt this past March, don’t be too hard on yourself: also missing it were 96 million Egyptians. Yes, a few Egyptians showed up at the polls for … Continue reading
Posted in Arab Spring, Egypt, labor
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The Honduran Crisis: Not Quite Your Father’s Oligarchy…
By Janice Jayes At first glance the political crisis in Honduras seems depressingly familiar: a military coup against a left-leaning President in 2009, continued repression of opposition groups, and now a Presidential election so full of irregularities that demonstrators refuse … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Environment, Honduran Election 2017, Human Rights, International, Land, military
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The U.S. Military in Africa: a Workshop for the Militarization of Foreign Policy
By Janice Jayes After four American servicemen were killed in in Niger in October, social media discussion fixated on President Trump’s insensitive remarks to the widow of one of the slain soldiers and questions about the logistics surrounding the unlucky … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Foreign Policy, International, military
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The Politics of Looking at Women’s Rights in the Middle East
As someone who has lived in and studies the Middle East I am often asked my opinion on the situation of women in that region. Of course it’s impossible to comment on “women” anywhere, even in Champaign or Urbana, without … Continue reading
Posted in Middle East, wonen's rights
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Foreign Relations, Domestic Security, and the Trump Era
The foreign policy outlook for the near future is bleak, but not just because of the incoming Trump administration’s proposals. Trump’s public statements about rolling back U.S. investments in “soft” issues like human rights or economic development, abandoning multilateral obligations … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 election, International, military, Trump
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Battling ISIS and Other Distractions from the Bigger Picture
Current operations to scrub out Islamic State (ISIS) bases have restored American confidence in state-of-the-art military solutions for complex problems, but unfortunately these battles (and the undefined relationship with Russia, Turkey or the Assad regime in the post-ISIS era) also … Continue reading
Posted in Middle East, Syria
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The Syrian Refugee Crisis and the Problem of Categories
The Syrian refugee crisis is ultimately a problem about categories, not numbers. Yes, the numbers are overwhelming. But, unfortunately, after years of tragic stories about the 11 million displaced by the Syrian war, international sympathy is waning even as the … Continue reading
Posted in Middle East, Refugees, Syria
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The Syrian Stage: The Globalization of the Syrian War
Just as the Arab Spring showcased the political possibilities of new forms of communication—empowering political dissenters by allowing them to rapidly share developments and warnings with each other and the world, and breaking the dominance the state had enjoyed over … Continue reading
Posted in Arab Spring, Communication Technologies, Middle East, Syria
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From the Arab Spring to the Syrian Civil War: Looking Again at the Modern Middle East
It’s tempting to put the Arab Spring and the Syrian Civil War in separate boxes, but like other forms of compartmentalization, that only hides but doesn’t resolve the underlying problems. The dynamics that helped the Syrian War erupt into one … Continue reading
Posted in Arab Spring, International, Politics, Syria
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