Roadblocks Ahead: Foreign Aid, Civil Society, and the Peace Process in Afghanistan
7Over the last 17 years, the support of USAID and other donors helped transform Afghan civil society and media from a loose network of...
Intimate Diplomacy: International Adoption on the World Stage
A shocking 40% of adopted children in the US are of a different race or culture than their adopted parents.
Foreign adoptions have dropped from...
A Tenuous Optimism: Potential Effects of Lula’s Leadership on Brazil
“I’m here to say that Brazil is ready to come back,” proclaimed new Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, often called Lula, at...
Democracy, Capitalism, Trade: Building Back Better
The fate of the Pacific may rest on the bonds of the Atlantic. Over the last four years, however, the transatlantic bonds between the...
#Genocide: How Abiy Ahmed and social media plunged Ethiopia into the horrors of civil...
Rwanda, December 1993. Radio-Television Libre des Mille Collines (RTLM) goes live. Despite the weak signal and the constant crackling, some of the words make...
Joe Biden and the Middle East
Following Joe Biden’s inauguration as the 46th US president on 20 January 2021, his administration has announced it will take a close look at...
The Kazakhstan Riots: Orientalism and Power in the Heart of Asia
Between the 2nd and the 11th of January 2022, Kazakhstan saw the biggest and most violent riots of its three decades of independence. Within...
A Never-Ending UN Security Council Reform
In a broad sense, reform can be loosely described as ‘having to do with quality improvement and reshaping the subject matter at hand for...
The Free and Open Indo-Pacific and the Rise of China: ‘Tigers’ Should Find a...
The Indo-Pacific is gaining systemic gravity in international affairs more than ever before. Avoiding falling into a zero-sum game would be beneficial for all.
Amid...
Jazz, Rivalry and Revolution: The Unfinished Story of Thomas Sankara
A surviving witness described the gunfire from Kalashnikov rifles as rain falling on a tin roof. Within a matter of seconds, Thomas Sankara, Burkina...
