French Every Day, Algerian Forever
“To be accepted, to be recognized, you have to do the impossible. You have to be Zidane.” This sentiment is commonly felt by Algerian immigrants living in Franc...
Czechoslovakia and Vietnam: An Unplanned Citizenship
Czechoslovakia and Vietnam: an unplanned citizenship If you take the red metro line from central Prague to Kačerov station, change to bus 113, ride twelve stops...
Nationalism’s Threat to India and Myanmar’s Open Border
The Tiau River is narrow enough to cross on foot during the dry season. The Indian village of Zokhawthar sits on one bank, and the Myanmar village of Khawmawi o...
MERDEKA!: Self-Determination Movements in West Papua and South Maluku
Translation Policy As a Kanaka ʻŌiwi (Native Hawaiian) scholar, I follow the critical scholarship of Noenoe Silva on translating Indigenous words and phra...
Human Circuits in Cold War Taiwan: The Radio Corporation of America, KMT Martial Law, and the Hidden Labour Behind Global Semiconductor Production
Introduction In 1978, an American researcher Linda Gail Arrigo sat across from RCA’s personnel manager at the company’s Taoyuan plant. The manager described how...
Early Soviet Urban Planning in Client States: Spatial Transformation in Post-1959 Havana
Introduction On January 1, 1959, dictator Fulgencio Batista fled Cuba, leaving Fidel Castro’s 26th of July Movement in power. This marked the end of years of gu...
Washed in Red, White, and Blue: The 2026 World Cup and the Paradox of Democratic Sportswashing
On December 5, 2025, in a Washington ballroom draped in the flags of nations, FIFA President Gianni Infantino stepped to the podium and handed the Presiden...
Hey, if you’re here, who’s steering the ship?
Rethinking the matter of autonomous vessels in International Maritime Law In the spring of 2022, a vessel slipped quietly out of a Norwegian port carrying a car...
Dusting Off the Sword: What the Shield of the Americas Reveals About Hemispheric Security for Latin America
New Name, Familiar Tale On March 7, 2026, leaders from across Latin America and the Caribbean gathered in Doral, Florida, at the invitation of U.S. President Do...
Imported Intolerance: Colonialism and the Persistence of Anti-LGBTQ+ Laws in Africa
When Ugandan authorities arrested two young women for sharing a Valentine’s Day kiss and charged them with offences related to homosexuality and indecency, they...
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