James Miller

Jun 18, 2024 | stimson.org | James Miller |Barbara Slavin |Joaquin Matamis

Editor’s Note: Dr. James Miller is a pioneer in health diplomacy with Iran, having used Iran’s rural primary health care model to try to improve the well-being of poor people in Mississippi. He is working now to help Iran use recently unfrozen funds to purchase medical devices and pharmaceuticals, which are not restricted by U.S. sanctions.

Nov 27, 2023 | publicseminar.org | James Miller

Image Credit: Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, October 1914/UAF Abt. 850 Nr. 40On November 13, the online publication of the Normative Orders research center at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main posted a statement outlining “Principles of solidarity” with Israel and Jews in Germany.

Aug 11, 2023 | eurozine.com | Ferenc Laczó |Réka Kinga Papp |John Keane |James Miller

Long standing Eurozine contributor, Ferenc Laczó joins editor-in-chief Réka Kinga Papp to talk about how a democracy can be alive and dead at the same time. With the Hungarian example as backdrop, they describe what democratic disintegration looks like – the early indicators, the pace, and how to identify democratic death threats. Laczó joined the discussion about how democracies die in the Eurozine focal point ‘The writing on the wall’ with his article ‘How democracies transform, fast and slow’.

Apr 12, 2023 | eurozine.com | Rafi Youatt |John Keane |James Miller

That both the planet and democracy are in peril seems obvious. Indeed, though their crises operate at different scales and tempos, they are nonetheless increasingly linked. As John Keane argues in his essay on how democracies die, the destruction of planetary life is not only the slowest form of democide, but also the most worrying.

Mar 30, 2023 | eurozine.com | Karlo Kralj |John Keane |Filip Kostelka |James Miller

The 2021 local elections in Croatia were an unprecedented success for green and left political forces, especially in the capital of Zagreb. Headed by the political platforms Zagreb je naš (Zagreb is ours, ZJN) and Možemo (We can), the Green-Left Coalition won 40.83% of the popular vote, gaining 23 out of 48 seats in the Zagreb City Assembly. Its mayoral candidate, Tomislav Tomašević, attracted almost 200,000 voters in the run-off, a record number.