Chinese Cobalt Extraction: A Modern Reflection of the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Colonial…
From the terror of King Leopold II to today’s cobalt rush, the DRC’s vast mineral wealth continues to power the world’s progress while leaving its own people buried beneath the costs of extraction.
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Druze Diplomacy and the Politics of Religious Identity
By prioritizing security through state loyalty and maintaining religious insularity, the Druze have achieved remarkable integration and communal survival. Yet, this very practice is what prevents their international representation.
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Opinion | Taiwan Is More Resolved Than Ever. It Is Also More Vulnerable.
Taiwan’s growing resolve cannot erase the deeper danger: China is making coercion feel routine faster than the world can make resistance meaningful.
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L’Europe divisée face à l’accord UE-Mercosur et ses enjeux écologiques
L’accord Mercosur illustre les tensions persistantes entre stratégies économiques et engagements environnementaux pour l’Europe.
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From Bangladesh to the United States, Gen Z Is Reinventing Protest Culture
Gen Z is chronically online, but so is the new front line of protest culture.
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Under Watchful Eyes: The Constraint of Free Will for Iran’s Female Footballers
Iran's Lionesses defied their government in silence—but when it came time to go home, the world was left wondering if the choice was ever really theirs.
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Seen But Not Stopped: How the Global Ghost Fleet Keeps Sailing
Across digital ship-tracking maps, thousands of triangles fill the world’s ports and oceans, each marking a vessel’s reported location and destination. Suspicious tankers are plentiful among them.
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Bukele’s Brand Is Contagious. The Results Are Not.
Latin Americans have elevated Bukele to an almost mythic status, and are desperately seeking their own equivalent. Yet, replication has proven irreproducible.
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Opinion | The Last Days of Pax Americana
The real question is not whether American hegemony will survive, but instead what will replace it and who is positioned to write the rules of the next global order.
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Les relations France-Vietnam, la « troisième voie » de la désillusion
L’alternative française proposée au Vietnam pour échapper au dynamique de blocs en Indo-Pacifique paraît davantage être une ambition diplomatique qu'une réalité économique.
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