Exploring the Police-Military Relationship in Pakistan and the United States
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 ...
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A Third Ceasefire in the Caucasus: Will it Hold?
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...
Portrait of a Psychological Warrior: The Challenges Facing Robert Blum and the Asia Foundation in Establishing a U.S. Public Diplomacy Program
In April 1953, Robert Blum was serving as a Director of Staff for the President’s Committee on International Information Activities (PCIIA), a committee which P...
Spillovers versus Bargaining – Which Integration Theory Explains the EU’s Coronavirus Recession Response?
Introduction The coronavirus pandemic and its consequences have undoubtedly altered the lives of many worldwide in a brief but impactful timeframe, and it conti...
Fault Lines in the Legal Basis for America’s ‘Snapback’
On 14 August 2020, the United States of America introduced a draft resolution in the United Nations Security Council (‘UNSC’ or ‘the Council’), to extend the in...
Neoliberalism: Free Markets and Constrained Citizens
This piece was published in the Global Issue Print Edition (Volume 11) Neoliberalism is rooted in the paradox between its theoretical principles and its p...
The 1911 Revolution and China’s “Internationalist Nationalism”:
This piece was published in the Global Issue Print Edition (Volume 11) How did Chinese Intellectual Thinking on the Idea of Nationalism Change China’s Vie...
Capitalist Racism – A Contemporary Analysis on W.E.B. Du Bois’s Colour Line and Double Consciousness through Canadian Diamond Mining and Economic Activity in Angola
This piece was published in the Global Issue Print Edition (Volume 11) The intersectionality of race and class is ongoing through multiple generations, causing ...
A Post-ironic Elegy to National Identity? The liminal ordeal of Ukraine through the prism of digital culture
This piece was published in the Global Issue Print Edition (Volume 11) INTRODUCTION “Am I joke to you? ” wonders a giant virion edited into a p...
The 2003 Phnom Penh Riots: How Thailand Employed A ‘Diplomacy of Anger’ Toward Cambodia
This piece was published in the Global Issue Print Edition (Volume 11) Introduction Fire, fury, and fervor engulfed Phnom Penh in January 2003. The Thai em...