New Caledonia: The World’s Next Country?
Over 10,200 miles from Paris in the South Pacific Ocean lies the French overseas territory of New Caledonia. The archipelago currently sits at the center of one...
Terrorism and Traoré: How Islamist Insurgents and Foreign Intervention Have Aided Ibrahim Traoré’s Authoritarian Takeover of Burkina Faso
On May 11, 2025, members of Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wa al-Musileen (JNIM) entered the northern town of Djibo in Burkina Faso. Over the next eleven hours, JNIM i...
Hidden in Custody: The Exploitation of Unaccompanied Minors
When Carolina entered the United States, she imagined the opportunities that the United States were to bring. Instead, she found herself stuffing plastic bags, ...
Striking a Balance: The State and the Minority in Syria
Syria’s Sunni Arab population greeted the collapse of Assad’s regime with elation. However, over a year later, the new government still faces many barriers to r...
Chen Jian on his book Zhou Enlai: A Life and the Future of Chinese-US Diplomacy
Chen Jian is a professor of history at New York University. His 2024 book, “Zhou Enlai: A Life,” is the first comprehensive biography of the powerful Chinese st...
Beyond Temporary: Exploring Refugee Belonging in Pakistan
In Conversation with Ambassador Mansoor Ahmed Khan, Former Pakistani Ambassador to Afghanistan, conducted in December 2025 In 2025, Pakistan once again stood at...
Spectacles of Sovereignty
The current global landscape is fragmented and changing. The stability of the perception of the world order remains in question. Since the end of the Cold War, ...
A Conversation with Former Georgian MP, Tamar Chugoshvili
The South Caucasus has historically been at the center of great-power competition due to its unique location, which sits on the fault line between Europe and th...
The Palm and Ignorance Underneath the Floods
The heavy rains of late November 2025 devastated many countries in South East Asia. Indonesia was hit the hardest, with more than 953 lives lost in Aceh, Sumatr...
Menstrual Hygiene as a Human Right: Period Poverty in Present-Day Palestine
691,300 Palestinian women face a burden gravely ignored by the international community: period poverty. This condition is a symptom of the Israeli-Palestinian c...