How to Scare a Giant: Resolve Signaling in South China Sea Maritime Disputes
Written by: James Boehme, Tufts University Summary Introduction Vast quantities of International Relations scholarship published over the past several decades h...
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The Forty Days of Musa Dagh – Genocide, Resistance, and Revelations for Today
Written by: Yicheng Zhang, Tufts University ’21 The novel The Forty Days of Musa Dagh was written by the Austrian-Jewish writer Franz Werfel in ...
A Pashtun Awakening Against All Odds
By Minahil Nawaz, TD’21 On January 28, 2020, Pakistani authorities detained two members of the Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM) in the northwest city of Peshawar...
Lahore’s Fifth Season: Smog
South and Central Asia Desk Written by: Minahil Nawaz, Timothy Dwight College At 10 AM on 30th October 2019, the Air Quality Index (AQI) in Lahore, Pakistan rea...
Islamophobia, Assam, India, and the National Citizen Registry
South and Central Asia Desk Written by: Vishwa Padigepati, Grace Hopper College ’22 Millions of people in Assam, India have been stripped off the state’s ...
Why is Taiwan so important? The manipulation of nationalism in legitimizing one-party rule in China
Global Issue 2019 Written by: Jun Tao Yeung, University of Hong Kong Introduction Since Tsai Ing-wen and the pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party (DPP)...
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China sees new diplomatic, economic role in Afghanistan — if it can resolve a 40-year conflict
By: Elisabeth Siegel China is setting up its second ever overseas military base in Afghanistan in order to train Afghan brigades in counterterrorism efforts, as...