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Ethiopian Tigray Crisis Threatens Stability in Horn of Africa

Posted on November 2020 by Dominique Castanheira

Escalating violence between the national army and those loyal to the northern Tigray region has brought the threat of civil war to Ethiopia and instability to t...

Americas/Arts and Culture/Comments

Critiquing the Canon: Pancho Fierro and Peruvian costumbrismo

Posted on November 2020 by Ariana Habibi

Art is not neutral; nor is its history. As it currently stands, the conventional canon of the history of art is rich with Western artists representing other cul...

Asia/Comments/Science and Technology

Internet Blackouts as a Political Tool in Kashmir, India

Posted on November 2020 by Jessica Honan

The increasing availability of the internet around the world has made it a platform for expressing and debating political ideas.[1] The internet has allowed for...

Asia/Comments/Science and Technology

TikTok: A Contested Global Space

Posted on November 2020 by Adia Keene and Minahil Nawaz

As pandemic related shutdowns around the world have confined many people to their homes, one social media app has exploded in popularity. TikTok, which allows u...

Comments/Europe

The Legacy of Germany’s Reunification

Posted on November 2020 by Marius Zeevaert

Thirty years after Germany’s reunification between East and West, the two parts of the country remain strikingly different. The origins of many of the differenc...

Campus

Event Coverage: Cold Wars, Asia, the Middle East, Europe

Posted on November 2020 by Henry Ziemer

The Cold War was a seminal moment for great power politics, during which the twin superpowers, the US and USSR engaged in a decades-long battle for influence th...

Africa/Comments

#EndSARS: Amplifying Young Nigerian Voices

Posted on November 2020 by Dominique Castanheira

On October 11, 2020, the Nigerian police force announced the dissolution of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, a corrupt police unit known as SARS. The announcemen...

Comments/Middle East

Exploring the Police-Military Relationship in Pakistan and the United States

Posted on November 2020 by Chanwook Park

On the surface, the arrest of Muhammad Safdar—a political dissenter who happens to be the son-in-law of the exiled ex-Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif—appears to be ...

Comments/Europe

A Third Ceasefire in the Caucasus: Will it Hold?

Posted on November 2020 by Jonah Chang

In late September, the latest flare-up in the long running Nagorno-Karabakh conflict erupted in Artsakh, an area of south Azerbaijan near the Iranian border. Th...

Americas/Comments

Below Us: A Very Brief History of Modern U.S.-Latin America Relations and Trump’s Legacy

Posted on November 2020 by Joaquín M. Lara Midkiff

As we approach the end of President Donald J. Trump’s first term as occupant of the White House, it is valuable to reflect on his relationship with countries to...

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