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Welfare vs Warfare: How a Powerful Military Weakens…
In September 2017, Congress approved an $80 billion increase to the U.S military budget, ballooning total military…
INTERPOL: targeting international criminals, terrorists,…
On October 17, 2017, Russian officials put out a request for cooperation from the international community to locate…
How Feasible is Nuclear Disarmament? Examining…
On the 6th of October, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) was awarded the Nobel Peace…
Land of the Twilight Sun
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe won a resounding electoral victory on October 22nd, with his Liberal Democratic Party…
Road Toward Reconciliation? A New Start for a Divided…
After a decade-long rift, the two political parties of Palestine, Hamas and Fatah (also known as the Palestinian…
The South-Asian Tinderbox: Rising Tensions and U.S.…
With the eyes of the world fixed on Kim-Jong Un and Donald Trump's war of words, another serious escalation has…
How the World Bank is Aggressively Targeting Childhood…
Stunting (also referred to as stunted growth or nutritional stunting) is the limited growth of human development in…
A Tale of Two Cities: Bridging the Gap Between Canada-US…
Spanning the short distance between Windsor, Ontario and Detroit, Michigan, the Ambassador Bridge is among the few…
The North Remembers: America’s Role in…
US President Donald Trump delivered a fiery speech at the UN General Assembly in September in which he threatened…
Conflicting Interests: A Power Vacuum Remains in Libya
After a 42-year reign of mostly iron-fisted dictatorship, many Libyans hoped that Muammar Gaddafi’s capture…
The Nuclear Kingdom
On September 14th, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, colloquially termed North Korea, threatened to sink…
Kagame and The Congo
Rich in resources yet rife with conflict, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is geographically the second…