The Pope Francis Phenomenon
Argentinian Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Pope Francis, bore many firsts for the Vatican: he is the first elected pope…
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Weekly Roundup: From Chibok to Catalonia
This week, MIR Online introduced readers to a diverse set of issues ranging from the harm of Islamophobia to the…
@WhiteHouse – How Obama became an Icon of Social Media
The Obama Administration has been groundbreaking in many obvious ways, but one of the most interesting ones is how…
Forgotten Women of Nigeria?
Earlier this year news and social media outlets exploded with word that several hundred schoolgirls had been…
Social Media and IR: Reconsidering Liberalism
Following November’s article about social media as a political tool and its position in a realist interpretation of…
Social Media and IR Theory: A Challenge to Realism
The 20th century has seen the development of several major schools of thought about the nature and processes of…
#ogiganteacourdou, #TürkiyemDireniyor: Comparing Social Media Use in Brazil and…
By now, the Arab Spring of 2011 has become a quintessential case study of popular uprisings in political science…