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The Burmese Experiment
To paraphrase Rudyard Kipling, Burma is quite unlike any place you know about.1 The country has a tumultuous…
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…
Review of the F.R. Scott Annual Lecture : Jeffrey…
On a cloudy and overcast Monday evening, McGillians and curious Montrealers alike gathered in the towering and…
ISIS and the Sacred State
The expressed mission of ISIS is the creation of a caliphate to rule over the entire Muslim ummah, the entire…
@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…
Small Nations: The Economics of Independence
Scotland’s recent referendum on independence resulted in a distribution of forty-five percent for and fifty-five…
Forgotten Women of Nigeria?
Earlier this year news and social media outlets exploded with word that several hundred schoolgirls had been…
«Beau risque» for Scotland?
Scotland is a country of just 5 million inhabitants and part of the United Kingdom. Québec is the sole…
Khmer Rouge Trials: The Rocky Road to Judicial…
On August 7th 2014, Khieu Samphan and Nuon Chea were sentenced to life imprisonment by the Extraordinary…
Post-Coup Thailand: Searching for Political Legitimacy
On May 22nd, two days after the implementation of martial law, the world witnessed Thailand’s 12th successful…
Northern Triangle Youth: Where Can They Go Now?
The past few years have seen an unmanageable increase in migration from Central America, especially the…
The Unbreakable Marriage of Force and American Foreign…
In an interview on the Daily Show on September 23rd about the Obama administration’s campaign against Islamic State…