Politics and Values: The Middle East and China
Introduction
Russell A. Berman
Reflections on Kurdistan, Iraq, and ISIS
Sabah Salih
The Kurdish Question: The Black Holes of Democracy
Pekka Sulkunen
The 2013 Egyptian Coup and the State of Exception
Beau Mullen
The Fertile Grounds for ISIL Terrorism
Arno Tausch
When Freedom of Expression Says “No”: The Case against Academic Boycott
Mohammed Saif-Alden Wattad
Special Section on China
Chinese Values and Western Values: Clash, Coexistence, or Consensus?
Introduction
David Pan
The “Four Nevers,” Socialist Core Values, and “Western Values”
Flora Sapio
How Universal Are Human Values?
John Lagerwey
Western, Chinese, and Universal Values
Stephen C. Angle
The Constellation of Values: A Possible Path out of the Impasse of China–West Opposition
Huimin Jin
Under Non-Western Eyes: Chinese Values and Western Values in a Twenty-First-Century Media Ecology
Min Zhou
The Graves of Law: The Work of Jurisprudence in Bachofen’s Study of Tombs
Edward Mussawir
The Production of the Subject in Late Benjamin
Matteo Calla
Order and Disorder: A Poetics of Exception
Daniel Innerarity
