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Neither Guns Nor Butter: An Evaluation of the Conflict…
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is one of the world’s poorest countries. Despite a huge bounty of…
“Hold a Mirror” to the Wounds of Canadian…
On September 22-23, 2014, the UN General Assembly held a meeting in New York of more than 1000…
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…