China and Russia: A Complicated History Sarah Aaron Mar 25, 2022 The relationship between China and Russia has a deep — and not always amicable — history. Their rapprochement in…
Linguistic Decolonization? Exploring Kazakhstan’s Switch from the Cyrillic to… Elizabeth Franceschini May 5, 2021 Kazakhstan, along with several other countries in the region, will continue to engage in a political tango with…
Could Banning Nuclear Weapons Threaten World Peace? Graydon Davidson Nov 19, 2020 "On October 24th, 2020, the international community reached a landmark treaty which triumphs over all predecessors…
Why Gorbachev is one of the Most Important Leaders of the 20th Century Elizabeth Franceschini Dec 16, 2019 On November 1st, the Yan P. Lin Centre, in collaboration with the McGill Department of Languages, Literatures, and…
Secular Policy, Ecclesiastical Practice: Church and State in Putin’s Russia Jordan Royt Nov 20, 2019 While the Russian Orthodox Church claims its separation from political affairs, it remains a dominant policy…
Giving the Cold Shoulder to the INF Emily Hunt Nov 7, 2018 On 20 October 2018, Donald Trump expressed the United States’ intention to withdraw from the Intermediate-Range…
Can the Liberal Order Survive Trump? Thea Koper Jul 15, 2017 The liberal order as we know it is crumbling. It has been for some years, even decades, but prior to Donald Trump’s…
Blame the Gays: A Brief History of Queer-Mongering Quinn Lazenby Nov 23, 2016 The French idiom 'avoir un coup de foudre' describes the connection of love as being struck by lightning. While…