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The Rohingya Refugee Crisis: A Gendered Emergency
The mass exodus of Rohingya refugees out of Myanmar and into neighboring countries has attracted significant…
The Brain Drain, the Civil War, and Angola’s…
The Angolan Civil War began as a proxy war between the United States and the Soviet Union. After successfully…
Why US Must Expand, Not Withdraw, Forces From Syria
In early April, President Trump stated that the US should withdraw its military forces from Syria. Secretary of…
States Shouldn’t Be in Control of Everything: Why John…
Introduction
Secretary of Defence John Bolton has long had a bad impression of international law. He has that…
The Chinese Problem in Indonesia: A Ghost from the Past…
The Chinese question is nothing new in Indonesia. Two decades after the post-Suharto reforms, Chinese-Indonesians…
Midterm Wars: The Establishment Strikes Back—Or Does It?
The dominant narrative of the 2016 U.S presidential elections was that of a revolt against “the establishment”, an…
The Holy Constitution
A doctored image of Parkland shooting survivor and activist Emma Gonzalez ripping the US constitution…
The Skripal Case: When Claiming the Moral High Ground…
On April 3rd, Gary Aitkenhead, Porton Down’s Chief Executive, declared that the chemical research facility had been…
Japan’s Remarkable Modernization
Today, Japan is by all metrics a first world country: It is an advanced democracy with the world’s fourth largest…
Editor’s Desk: We are Mir
Branded a CIA agent by the Taliban, and a Taliban sympathizer by his critics, Hamid Mir is the face of political…
Where There’s Smoke, There’s Fire: How the…
In early March, Sergei and Julia Skripal were found unconscious on a park bench in Salisbury. What looked to…
¡Viva la Conservación! Learning from Cuba’s…
Land, Air, Sea: Rethinking Cuba (maybe: Land, Sea, Sky?)
Cuba is a nation known for embodying paradox: it has a…