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Aziz Rana

Aziz Rana is Professor of Law at Cornell University and author of The Two Faces of American Freedom.

Articles

In a world imperiled by global pandemic, it is long past time to put an end to sanctions—including new ones against Iran—and to reconstruct U.S. foreign policy around international solidarity.
Asl? U. Bâli, Aziz Rana
With Assad preparing a major offensive on the last rebel stronghold, the United States must offer a path forward. 
Asl? U. Bâli, Aziz Rana
As the Trump–Putin summit made clear, U.S. policy in Syria has always been about grand strategy—never about what would actually help the people on the ground.
Asl? U. Bâli, Aziz Rana
Support for the U.S. military has long been seen as a crucial way for black Americans and immigrants to show that they “belong.”
Aziz Rana

Could Trump's repudiation of the Iran Deal be the beginning of the end of U.S. hegemony abroad?

Asl? U. Bâli, Aziz Rana

Citizens of African countries are expected to accede to a lower political standard than real democracy. Not only does this perpetuate the old colonial imagination, it is also fundamentally wrong.

Aziz Rana

Elections are now used to legitimate authoritarian regimes, not herald liberal democracy. Nowhere is this more apparent than in Kenya.

Aziz Rana

Islamophobia is a shared project of the Democrat and Republican parties, long preceding the rise of white nationalism and Trump.

John Bowen, Aziz Rana

Forum Responses

In practice, domestic equality has often relied on dominance and exclusion.
Aziz Rana

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